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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits
« on: September 01, 2012, 03:48:05 PM »
Some first attempts at bird portraits. First 2 shot with 500mm @500 the second 2 are shot with the 500mm with 2x extender
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Animal Kingdom / Tracking Birds?
« on: September 01, 2012, 03:07:47 PM »
I've been shooting a lot of birds lately and one problem I've been having is keeping them in focus while flying. I have tried al servo, regular etc, and once in a while I'll hit in spot on, but usually in a burst out of 15 photos 3 will focus on the bird lol. Is there a technique or tip anyone might have for all those fast birds out there 
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using mono pod or ball head w/ 500mm sometimes with 1.4 or 2x extender
?using mono pod or ball head w/ 500mm sometimes with 1.4 or 2x extender
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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Induro Gimbal Hold A 500mm?
« on: August 31, 2012, 08:38:31 PM »
Wow!!! That is pretty niffty!!! Haha defiantly going to get this set up! Because it isn't hard to change from lens to camera body. Plus, you get the vertical! The pictures helped a lot lol!
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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Induro Gimbal Hold A 500mm?
« on: August 31, 2012, 08:11:38 PM »Stupid question, exactly how does the model 8 attach the either the wim camera bracket, or an L bracket?? In the picture it doesn't show anything? However, ok so, I use the L plate on my camera, I then attatch the say rrs nodal slide, which can attach to the gimbal head via arca swiss. Then, the L plate can mount onto the nodal? O.o haha
Not stupid at all. I'm gonna have supper... then I'll take a pic of my setup so you can see how it clamps on and post it here...
Sounds great thanks
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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Induro Gimbal Hold A 500mm?
« on: August 31, 2012, 07:55:17 PM »Answered my own questions so the wim site says you can't shoot vertically unless you have an L plate. So does the rrs L plate work on the gimbal?
Yes. They are both Arca Swiss Style. (My L Plate is RRS)
However on the full gimbal vertically mounted u can't look through the view finder the way the camera would sit :-/. I only shoot vertically for panos which I don't shoot to often so I guess I shouldnt worry
Yes you can. You buy an adapter called the "wimberley module 8" You clamp this into the gimball mount. Then you clamp your L-Plate into this. Basically it is an adapter that turns the mounting surface on the gimball 90 degrees allowing you to mount your L-Plate instead of a Lens Foot Plate.
The orientation of the camera to the gimball are the same whether you shoot with your lens clamped in or your L- Plate.
I shoot Panos all the time (vertically) with this setup. The Module 8 also allows you to slide the setup back a little orienting the front of the element over the center of the tripod base. This helps to prevent Parallax when as you shoot from one edge of the pano to the other. (RRS makes a longer "Module 8" type thing that works even better at eliminating parallax, its just a little more $$ and called the Nodal Slide http://reallyrightstuff.com/ProductDesc.aspx?code=MPR-CL-II&type=0&eq=MPR-CL-II-002&desc= )
Stupid question, exactly how does the model 8 attach the either the wim camera bracket, or an L bracket?? In the picture it doesn't show anything? However, ok so, I use the L plate on my camera, I then attatch the say rrs nodal slide, which can attach to the gimbal head via arca swiss. Then, the L plate can mount onto the nodal? O.o haha
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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Induro Gimbal Hold A 500mm?
« on: August 31, 2012, 07:26:11 PM »Answered my own questions so the wim site says you can't shoot vertically unless you have an L plate. So does the rrs L plate work on the gimbal?
Yes. They are both Arca Swiss Style. (My L Plate is RRS)
However on the full gimbal vertically mounted u can't look through the view finder the way the camera would sit :-/. I only shoot vertically for panos which I don't shoot to often so I guess I shouldnt worry
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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Induro Gimbal Hold A 500mm?
« on: August 31, 2012, 06:03:02 PM »
Answered my own questions so the wim site says you can't shoot vertically unless you have an L plate. So does the rrs L plate work on the gimbal?
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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Induro Gimbal Hold A 500mm?
« on: August 31, 2012, 05:55:37 PM »
Another dumb question. If I go with the full gimbal as just my every day use it for everything tripod head, and I use it for mounting my camera the plate mounts to the bottom of the camera, so how do you turn the camera and mount it on its side??
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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Induro Gimbal Hold A 500mm?
« on: August 31, 2012, 05:50:48 PM »
Also a guy shows up next to me while I'm shooting asking if there was anything good and I pointed to the elk so he says cool. Comes back next to me with a full gimbal, 800mm and 1DX... I cried a little inside with my 5d3 and 500 listening to 12 fps haha however he was like all over the place shooting birds and idk what else but of course it was all super smooth and effortless. I was going to talk to him about his set up but he was off to quickly.
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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Induro Gimbal Hold A 500mm?
« on: August 31, 2012, 05:46:38 PM »
Some more interesting feedback and posts! The full gimbal using it 24/7 might be the way to go. Today I was shooting in rocky mounting national park and set everything up for a landscape I was dialing in the n grad filter and oh up walks a bunch of elk. And switching everything was a super pain because the stupid 500mm has to be so heavy. And then it happened again where a flock of medow lark and these super blue birds like right in front if me. And one thing that really is not fun was trying to track the birds. I ended up just holding down the shutter crossing my fingers I'd capture one. The full might be better because you can detach the lens the put on a different body with a lens already on it. Because with the sidekick or some mount to the ball head you have to adjust the head to the side and add in the attachment then line up the lens trying not to drop it lol.
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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Induro Gimbal Hold A 500mm?
« on: August 30, 2012, 09:41:59 PM »
I'm sure people give some weird looks haha but sense it has the camera plates and stuff and adjust a tripod to level is no big deal so the full gimbal might just be the way to go
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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Induro Gimbal Hold A 500mm?
« on: August 30, 2012, 09:31:48 PM »
I thought about that as far as just using the wimberly as the primary head but didn't know how well it'd work for landscape etc but that doesn't seem like to bad of a set up!
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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Induro Gimbal Hold A 500mm?
« on: August 30, 2012, 09:00:47 PM »
Haha that things cool! So you attached one head to that and then if you switch just pops off and change?
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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Induro Gimbal Hold A 500mm?
« on: August 30, 2012, 08:38:05 PM »
"but RRS offers a leveling base with an integrated clamp, and dovetail plates for heads (the 40mm one fits the Wimberley II) - that allows fast switching between ballhead and gimbal."
What is it??
What is it??
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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Induro Gimbal Hold A 500mm?
« on: August 30, 2012, 08:35:28 PM »
Hmm well I have 2 tripods that can hold the biggests lens etc, and have the ball head and then an off center balk head. Of courselves off center would never work with a super tele and the bh55 holds it but I'd like the gimbal aspect. So, even though the bh55 is awesome maybe selling that and just getting the full 200 would be better. Either way for the rrs or wim full it's like $600-800 which is more than I want to spend but would prolly be better in the long run. I just dont want to carry basically 2 set ups as far as 2 tripods and 2 heads plus gear bag haha.