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PLEASE Stop Already! (I'm already working hard to find things to sell, trying to be Extra Good around the house, and eating out of cans trying to put together the cash to move up to an R5!)I thought I'd upload some shots to show how good the eyeAF on the R5 is - they are just to illustrate how the camera is able to locate the head of a distant bird that is just visible to the naked eye and partly obscured. They are from the 400mm f/4 with a 2xTC at 800mm and 1/800s. There are screenshots of the full image in DPP4 showing the red square of focus of the bird and the crops upsized 1.4x in Topaz Gigapixel as they are so small - pushing the lens to its limits.View attachment 195550View attachment 195551View attachment 195552View attachment 195556View attachment 195557View attachment 195558
If you really want to compare camera and lens performance with two windows, detach one of them on the hinges and put it next to the other one. Make them parallel and shoot the newspaper placed on the tree. Likely, the difference in window glass pane will be obvious. Your and mine eyes are not much affected as the photo will be. I think that the explanation is ratio of glass defect period vs. pupil diameter. We look through pencil size diameter straw and glass is sufficiently flat not to affect image sharpness. Lens picks all waviness in glass over its large pupil diameter.First time for me here in Bird Portraits (for years). Now time to show some R5 shots.
Have these two to share:
1. Kingfisher - approx. 20m distance. R5 w. RF100-500mm + 1.4x TC. @ 700mm, 1/1250s, f/10, ISO 3200. I Like the bird's choice of perch in same colours.
2. Hawfinch in my backyard (taken through double glass window). Same gear @ 700mm, 1/320s, f/10, ISO 2500.
Sofar I am very happy with shift to mirror-less and R5 performance.
One thing that makes me wonder: Shooting through glass from my living-room is just fine (angle somewhat downwards). Shooting through similar (though a little older) glass from basement-level always produce unsharp photos (angle almost level). Very consistent phenomenon. Was the same for DSLR - and did not change with mirror-less.
Any explanations to offer?
I see one more from Hawaii here!Mahalo, Click!
PLEASE Stop Already! (I'm already working hard to find things to sell, trying to be Extra Good around the house, and eating out of cans trying to put together the cash to move up to an R5!)
Beautiful photos, By the Way!
I hope it works for you, not sure for some other guys... Honestly it's a combo that makes me (first time!!!) thinking about adding one more system to my backpack or simply switching... On other hand - there is regularly something popping up that makes you jealous (and your pockets lighter and it could be significantly lighter!) . Any way - that's the new (not so new actually - at all!) trend in photography but I'm comparing it with the old good times when you buy a good camera/lens(es) and you are practically done (ha, ha - you stupid you just think so - at least in my case!).Hang in there, I'm doing much the same. Just tell yourself that with the conditions in the world at the moment there really is no need for a new camera and put your energies into planning how you're going to use it when there is.
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Benjamin Franklin
Jack