• Click
    Click replied to the thread Show your Bird Portraits.
    Very nice series, Sir.
  • Distinctly Average
    Nice shots. Here in the UK we only have 3.5 species of snake. The .5 is an introduced species only found at two sites but would have...
  • illadvisedhammer
    Well, since you mentioned it.. but this was with an OM-1 and 60 macro, not macro magnification, and cropped from full body..and it was a...
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  • SirIssacNewton
    SirIssacNewton replied to the thread Show your Bird Portraits.
    Ima Imagine the first person who ever saw that majestic bird!!! Outstanding photos👍
  • SirIssacNewton
    SirIssacNewton replied to the thread Show your Bird Portraits.
    Brown Thrasher quickly becoming one of my favorites! Taken with my Canon R8 and 600mm f11
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  • S
    Do you mean solar system objects? Wide aperture is not required, and 100 is way too short.
  • danfaz
    danfaz replied to the thread Show your Bird Portraits.
    Thank you, Click!
  • roby17269
    I guess 85 1.2 v 85 1.4 being the reference will depend on price, if this 100 1.4 will indeed be announced. With the 135 there's only...
  • Click
    Great shots, danfaz.
  • Click
    Click replied to the thread Show your Bird Portraits.
    Great shots! I especially like the first one. Well done, Sir!
  • neuroanatomist
    Lol, seriously? The weight of the 28-70/2 accounts for @riker’s experience that the combo with the R5II appeared to have no...
  • P
    So you assume that while the IBIS can compensate for more movement at certain focal lengths durring testing, the opposite is true when...
  • Distinctly Average
    Sorry for the late reply, busy week. When I first started macro I thought the same. The more I learnt the more I realised that getting...
  • Ozarker
    My only experience with 100mm is a 105mm Takumar... which = no experience with 100 mm. However, I think I prefer 105mm over 85mm for...
  • E
    My point is just that the results will be different. They will also differ between people. That is why they use robots to get a...
  • E
    Lowlight, astro, indoor sports, and blurring out backgrounds. Sigma has had a 100 f/1.4 for a long time, and recently introduced a 135...
  • masterpix
    I still use my FD 200m f4 macto, close up macto are very hard as is and AF may not be practically helpful. On the other hand, I use my...
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  • D
    I remember that in a distant past (my youth!), Zeiss sold to Rollei and some others so-called Loupe lenses for high-magnification...
  • J
    It doesn't help with the working distance, but I found the MP-E more practical with full frame. Then the 1:1 covers much larger...
  • Jasonmc89
    I’m a macro photographer and something that can autofocus at 5x mag would be VERY desirable to me! Focus bracketing slime molds for...
  • danfaz
    danfaz replied to the thread Show your Bird Portraits.
    @ISv I trained this one to pose for me 🤣 A surly looking sub-adult Bald Eagle
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  • danfaz
    Today I captured a rather sinister looking sub-adult Bald Eagle and an adult Bald Eagle. They were only two trees away from each other.
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  • ISv
    ISv replied to the thread Show your Bird Portraits.
    Thanks! "Annoying when they do stuff like that!" - they are not trained models and exactly that is doing the game even more interesting:)!
  • danfaz
    danfaz replied to the thread Show your Bird Portraits.
    Annoying when they do stuff like that! 🤣 Still a nice photo!🙂
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