BIRD IN FLIGHT ONLY -- share your BIF photos here
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Hi Vern.
Lovely series of shots. With regards to the IS, I have seen people here say they turn it off at high shutter speeds while others say it helps steady the viewfinder image while you frame the shot and stabilise your panning speed. Perhaps you can try it out and tell us! ;D
Cheers, Graham.
Lovely series of shots. With regards to the IS, I have seen people here say they turn it off at high shutter speeds while others say it helps steady the viewfinder image while you frame the shot and stabilise your panning speed. Perhaps you can try it out and tell us! ;D
Cheers, Graham.
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A Common Tern with 7D mk2 + Sigma 150-600 S:
Common Tern Flying by Jussi Lind, on Flickr
Common Tern Flying by Jussi Lind, on Flickr
Common Tern Flying by Jussi Lind, on Flickr
Common Tern Flying by Jussi Lind, on Flickr
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LSeries said:A Common Tern with 7D mk2 + Sigma 150-600 S:
Common Tern Flying by Jussi Lind, on Flickr
Common Tern Flying by Jussi Lind, on Flickr
Very nice. Pretty subjects for flight shots!
Jack
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One of the local Osprey bringing a fish back to the nest for the recent fledglings. Though the fledglings are out and about for about two weeks now, they are still learning the ropes.
1DX MK II : 600 II w/1.4X III : 1/3200 : f/7.1 : ISO 1000
1DX MK II : 600 II w/1.4X III : 1/3200 : f/7.1 : ISO 1000
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ERHP said:One of the local Osprey bringing a fish back to the nest for the recent fledglings. Though the fledglings are out and about for about two weeks now, they are still learning the ropes.
1DX MK II : 600 II w/1.4X III : 1/3200 : f/7.1 : ISO 1000
Very nice. Wonder if one could be trained to bring me the fish?
Jack
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Mikehit said:
falcnr, very nice. Were you near a nest? As a young and foolish preteen I once climbed a tree to a Redtail nest(egg collecting). Reflecting back I now realize I was lucky not to have received some nasty gashes.
I'm more or less certain that I'll have the camera by this fall (could have had one 2 days ago but I bumped myself to the back of the list, again). Never the less, I'm still reading every review/commentary with great interest. It would seem that the AF is simply the best with the exception perhaps of eye recognition/focus. Most rate AF as amazing.
It's a bit of extra effort but it would be quite helpful if you could indicate roughly the degree of cropping (or include uncropped), F stop, and shutter speed along with the lens, in this case 400.
I know I'm expecting a lot for free.
Jack
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Jack Douglas said:Mikehit said:
falcnr, very nice. Were you near a nest? As a young and foolish preteen I once climbed a tree to a Redtail nest(egg collecting). Reflecting back I now realize I was lucky not to have received some nasty gashes.
I'm more or less certain that I'll have the camera by this fall (could have had one 2 days ago but I bumped myself to the back of the list, again). Never the less, I'm still reading every review/commentary with great interest. It would seem that the AF is simply the best with the exception perhaps of eye recognition/focus. Most rate AF as amazing.
It's a bit of extra effort but it would be quite helpful if you could indicate roughly the degree of cropping (or include uncropped), F stop, and shutter speed along with the lens, in this case 400.
I know I'm expecting a lot for free.
Jack
HI Jack,
yes were at a few nest sites and banding the chicks and recording DATA.
RE the cropping, it is relatively minimal as the falcon is truly trying to hit my head and just as it gets real close i duck behind the lens. In fact I usually get off a sequence of images and the last one or two are often soft focus because it gets within the minimum focus distance just before i duck!
As for these particular images I was trying out auto ISO for the first time and set aperture between f5 and at times to f6.3. The shutter speed maxed at 1/8000th which was overkill and frankly I have not gotten used to shooting auto ISO as I prefer to shoot manual or sometimes aperture priority if all is predictable.
The keeper rate of the DX2 is better than its predecessor (auto focus) but not in itself a reason to upgrade, as too frame rate. I was more drawn to other reasons not least the fact focus at f8 (using TC's on 800mm for LBJ's) is more than centre focus now and the coast technology. Wished it was more than 2 megapixels more and they'd not increased frame rate. Who knows i might even use the 4K video. :
Love the camera though and its only money. ;D
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