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Oh, and if you don't want to lug around 3kg of camera, lens and extender, here is a shot by wife using the R7 and RF 100-400mm as taken and then upscaled 3x with Topaz to a similar size as the 1600 on R5.View attachment 214746View attachment 214747
Beautiful!
Topaz has four upscaling modes or algorithms I'm not sure the correct terminology. Which did you use?
 
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Just the commons from my very short walk in the park today...
Once I finished with the Red-crested Cardinal I noticed someone sitting on "my bench" :). And my backpack was still there! The immature Saffron Finches don't obviously understand the "rule of privacy"!



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Oh, and if you don't want to lug around 3kg of camera, lens and extender, here is a shot by wife using the R7 and RF 100-400mm as taken and then upscaled 3x with Topaz to a similar size as the 1600 on R5.View attachment 214746View attachment 214747
I far prefer the background obtained with the 200-800, yet, the owl is really cute! :)
 
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I far prefer the background obtained with the 200-800, yet, the owl is really cute! :)
No problem - here's a choice of two blurred backgrounds for you. Actually, I'm deadly serious here: we currently manipulate background using lens aperture as an analog tool, but just as mobile phones blur background digitally (as does Zoom if you want) for portraits, so digital methods will increasingly do the same for traditional photography obviating the need for wide lenses for those who want. The field blur in the bottom image pretty closely mimicks the one I had at 1600mm and nicer than the shorter focal lengths with the 200-800mm.

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No problem - here's a choice of two blurred backgrounds for you. Actually, I'm deadly serious here: we currently manipulate background using lens aperture as an analog tool, but just as mobile phones blur background digitally (as does Zoom if you want) for portraits, so digital methods will increasingly do the same for traditional photography obviating the need for wide lenses for those who want. The field blur in the bottom image pretty closely mimicks the one I had at 1600mm and nicer than the shorter focal lengths with the 200-800mm.

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If, in our Kodachrome days, we could have imagined all the possibilities and options we now have...:unsure:
 
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The RF 200-800mm is a real behemoth - compare it on the R5 with the RF 100-400mm on the R7. By chance I got two near identical shots of a Great Tit on my feeder with them - about 2000mp x 2000mpx crops below - with the R5 @ 742mm at the bottom. The R7/400mm isn't quite as good but it is nearly there. If I go out for a walk, I know which is the easier to carry and aim.

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Just the commons from my very short walk in the park today...
Once I finished with the Red-crested Cardinal I noticed someone sitting on "my bench" :). And my backpack was still there! The immature Saffron Finches don't obviously understand the "rule of privacy"!

Nice series, ISv.
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The month of February has brought warmer temperatures and the ever-welcome sound of birds and a reminder that spring is coming to our area (midwest USA), including:

*northern mockingbird (at dusk; the winter sun orientation is needed to get this magic hour shot at this particular location)
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*northern cardinal
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*some type of sparrow?
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*American robin
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*male downy woodpecker (2)
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All 5DMkIII and 100-400II/1.4III
 
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Nice series, ISv.
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Thanks Click!
One more from today: bad weather I actually was more concentrated on the walk, occasionally looking for birds. This one (Red-vented bulbul) came when I was sitting on a bench for short rest and it came pretty close! It's posture is telling something about the weather (and I think my posture on the bench was very similar:ROFLMAO:).

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