Chig said:

I'd be wary of buying cards from anyone but proper camera stores as there's a lot of counterfeit cards floating around and when you can buy a decent card from B&H for USD $68 why take the risk? https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...e_128g_ancnn_128gb_extreme_pro_cfexpress.html

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The assertion was that cfe cards are much more expensive than sd cards which I am disputing.
You can get cheap sd cards and cheap cfe cards. Any decent cfe cards are still cheaper than the same size equivalent sd cards but still much faster

EricN said:

Don't the great blue herons also have some areas of warm colors on their neck?

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Yes, they do and in the Del Paso's photo the bird has a darker color on the neck that may go as a "warm" (warmer colors underexposed are looking dark, no?) but you MUST look at the entire picture and think what is what. I'm pretty sure if you increase the exposure of that photo in PP that will go off.

Planterz said:

I think Canon would do well to offer something like this as well. The 100-300mm is an incredible feat of engineering, but it's a chonk. Or take a page out of Nikon and Sigma's book and make hand holdable "affordable" primes like the 500mm f5.6 or the Nikkor 400mm f4.5 and 600mm f6.3.

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Canon’s RF 300-600mm is probably Canon’s answer to Nikon’s PF tele telelenses.

I really like your series, ISv.

ISv said:

Just Gray Heron: at this exposure the thighs of the Great Blue should be much darker. Off course Del Paso can easily solve the problem if he tells us where he took the photo. If he say's Americas I have to shoot myself (Great Blue is rare vagrant to Europe!) He should make it faster because I'm holding Pfeifer Zeliska .600 Nitro Express - so heavy for a long holding)!

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Don't the great blue herons also have some areas of warm colors on their neck?

These are from today (another hot for the season day at ~31C and with the humidity, despite of the strong winds, it feels even worst!). Still without DxO PL...

David - Sydney said:

Has anyone actually investigated cheap cfe cards? Under usd40 for 128gb from
Amazon.com for slower cards
I just don’t get the fud about sd vs cfe cards and cost anymore

It was definitely different ~6 years ago when my R5 was released but things have changed now

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I'd be wary of buying cards from anyone but proper camera stores as there's a lot of counterfeit cards floating around and when you can buy a decent card from B&H for USD $68 why take the risk? https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...e_128g_ancnn_128gb_extreme_pro_cfexpress.html

Click said:

Very nice Great Blue Heron. (or Grey heron) Well done, Del Paso.

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Just Gray Heron: at this exposure the thighs of the Great Blue should be much darker. Off course Del Paso can easily solve the problem if he tells us where he took the photo. If he say's Americas I have to shoot myself (Great Blue is rare vagrant to Europe!) He should make it faster because I'm holding Pfeifer Zeliska .600 Nitro Express - so heavy for a long holding)!

m4ndr4ke said:

He doesn’t have to, he doesn’t even have to own the camera.
I am the target user for the R6 series and I use v30 SD cards because I can and because they’re enough for my needs.
Free will, you know?

It’s a wrong assumption to think that everyone is buying the fastest memory cards a camera can take. Not everyone is doing video, not everyone is shooting in bursts. The R6 has buffer for over a hundred photographs, and I’d be working the same way if it had half of that, as I’m not burst shooting.

I’d get pissed if they converted the R6 series to using two different memory cards, one being at 10 times the price.

I own several pairs of memory cards, that would increase the price of the camera to me by 10 to 20% right away, in order to keep working the same way. That’s just crazy for this price point.

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Has anyone actually investigated cheap cfe cards? Under usd40 for 128gb from
Amazon.com for slower cards
I just don’t get the fud about sd vs cfe cards and cost anymore

It was definitely different ~6 years ago when my R5 was released but things have changed now

Click said:

Nice shots, Sir!

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Thank you Sir

Nice shots, Sir!

Got this Double Crested Cormorant and American Robin, they were both out of my truck window and further away then I like! Taken with my Canon R8 and RF 600mm f11

Turkey Vulture taken with my Canon R10 and RF 600mm f11

Nicely done, Del Paso.

Very nice Great Blue Heron. (or Grey heron) Well done, Del Paso.

In Spain (my country) the original R6 released at 2799€ and the R6 mk II at 2980€ (21% VAT included).

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The Sony 300mm f2.8 GM is a relatively popular lens. It's light enough for hand holding (at least much moreso than the 400mm). From what I've read it works great with the 1.4x teleconvertor and still holds up well with the 2x TC, giving you a much lighter 600mm than the 200-600mm and of course way lighter than the 600mm f4. It's a long way past "inexpensive", but it's still thousands less than the 400mm f2.8 and 600mm f4. IMO the real competition for the 300mm f2.8 is the Sigma 500mm f5.6, which is an incredible lens for the price, but has the typical Sony limitations of 15fps and no TC.

I think Canon would do well to offer something like this as well. The 100-300mm is an incredible feat of engineering, but it's a chonk. Or take a page out of Nikon and Sigma's book and make hand holdable "affordable" primes like the 500mm f5.6 or the Nikkor 400mm f4.5 and 600mm f6.3.

"Like a bird, on a wire"... No idea why I can only post pictures in low definition

P-visie said:

I use PhotoAI sporadically, usually for photo’s where the sharpness is a little off. At the time Topaz Denoise was good, the results from PhotoAI are usually over-sharpened. Animals and birds look like someone has combed their hair or feathers.
The improvements in LR for noise reduction, DxO Pure Raw for ‘problem’ photo’s and the introduction of a subscription model will be the end of Topaz for me.

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But you can easily reduce the amount of sharpening when using Topaz AI.
Their "auto mode" tends to oversharpen and to produce strange artefacts.

Nemorino said:

Thank You!

I use helicon focus to render the images.


If You like jelly You might like also those:
Maybe a Tremella globispora

R5m2 + Laowa 25mm macro
stack of 61 frames
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Maybe tremella spicata
R5m2 + RF100L
stack of 130 frames
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I can't tell what species of Tremella they are but I like the photos (but not jelly...)

AlanF said:

I never used Topaz on RAW. If I needed it, I would just apply it to an exported jpeg from DxO.

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I use PhotoAI sporadically, usually for photo’s where the sharpness is a little off. At the time Topaz Denoise was good, the results from PhotoAI are usually over-sharpened. Animals and birds look like someone has combed their hair or feathers.
The improvements in LR for noise reduction, DxO Pure Raw for ‘problem’ photo’s and the introduction of a subscription model will be the end of Topaz for me.

P-visie said:

At the time Topaz told me that they had to wait for Libraw library for R5 Mk II. After Libraw support for the R5 Mk II became available, it took Topaz almost 2 months to release PhotoAI. They went from a Pay once, to pay every 12-18 months, to pay every month. The quality of their products declined with every step.

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I never used Topaz on RAW. If I needed it, I would just apply it to an exported jpeg from DxO.