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[scyrene]

Also, when you get into these extremes, you need to be shooting in cold, clean alpine air, or humidity and other environmental conditions will wreck your image.

especially if the subject is ways away. I much prefer the subject be less than 20m.

Gosh, if I restricted myself to 20m I'd get almost no shots at all! I don't find air quality a problem until the subject is a couple of hundred metres away (in sunshine/warm weather) or more. Maybe it's just the different climates?

 

[dolina]

Also, when you get into these extremes, you need to be shooting in cold, clean alpine air, or humidity and other environmental conditions will wreck your image.

especially if the subject is ways away. I much prefer the subject be less than 20m.

Gosh, if I restricted myself to 20m I'd get almost no shots at all! I don't find air quality a problem until the subject is a couple of hundred metres away (in sunshine/warm weather) or more. Maybe it's just the different climates?

if your relative humidity tends to be 80% or greater and temp ranges from 35°c or greater with a lot of coal and diesel (think "rolling coal" trend in the US) emissions then it will be a problem

Btw your statement is confusing. 20m is too great a distance?

 

[scyrene]

Also, when you get into these extremes, you need to be shooting in cold, clean alpine air, or humidity and other environmental conditions will wreck your image.

especially if the subject is ways away. I much prefer the subject be less than 20m.

Gosh, if I restricted myself to 20m I'd get almost no shots at all! I don't find air quality a problem until the subject is a couple of hundred metres away (in sunshine/warm weather) or more. Maybe it's just the different climates?

if your relative humidity tends to be 80% or greater and temp ranges from 35°c or greater with a lot of coal and diesel (think "rolling coal" trend in the US) emissions then it will be a problem

Btw your statement is confusing. 20m is too great a distance?

Lol, I've never experienced 35ºC! It's often very humid here but not terribly warm. And pollution levels are low to moderate most of the time. Fair enough

And I meant, if the maximum distance was 20m. I rarely encounter birds that close, especially the more unusual ones.

 

[dolina]

And I meant, if the maximum distance was 20m. I rarely encounter birds that close, especially the more unusual ones.

In which case I prefer the subject be that close. I dont bother taking photos of birds further than that as I'd just delete them anyways.

 

[scyrene]

And I meant, if the maximum distance was 20m. I rarely encounter birds that close, especially the more unusual ones.

In which case I prefer the subject be that close. I dont bother taking photos of birds further than that as I'd just delete them anyways.

Haha, fair enough. Each to their own