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ooF Fighters, very cute shot, well done.
AlanF please keep us informed on the 100-400, I'm most interested.
Jack
AlanF please keep us informed on the 100-400, I'm most interested.
Jack
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Fast food - I was about to get into my car, and when I spotted these two there were still a lot of french fries on the ground in the parking lot. It took me a few seconds to remove the cap and lift camera to shoot, and then they had eaten almost all.
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I have not posted much here lately. Might have something to do with the lack of new bird images ...
I have had the 7DII for a couple of weeks, but have not used until this weekend. Took it for a walk in the woods, with the 600 f4L IS II, with the 1.4xIII extender, giving me the full frame equivalent of 1344mm, which is quite impressive. The main reason for buying this body was to see what I could get in the long end. The AF system is very good and a tremendous improvement over the MkI. I was concerned with ISO performance, so I wanted to test that also.
So this is a slightly cropped images of a tit (feels odd every time to say that) at 1/1000s, f6.3, ISO5000. I have applied some noise reduction and boosted saturation a bit, but only a 3 minute job. If I had shot this with the 1DX ... It would at least have been cropped quite a bit. All in all, I am fairly happy.
I have had the 7DII for a couple of weeks, but have not used until this weekend. Took it for a walk in the woods, with the 600 f4L IS II, with the 1.4xIII extender, giving me the full frame equivalent of 1344mm, which is quite impressive. The main reason for buying this body was to see what I could get in the long end. The AF system is very good and a tremendous improvement over the MkI. I was concerned with ISO performance, so I wanted to test that also.
So this is a slightly cropped images of a tit (feels odd every time to say that) at 1/1000s, f6.3, ISO5000. I have applied some noise reduction and boosted saturation a bit, but only a 3 minute job. If I had shot this with the 1DX ... It would at least have been cropped quite a bit. All in all, I am fairly happy.
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The owl's name is Pete, and he is pretty comfortable around people all things considered (but the gloves are still required!). My daughters worked with a local raptor rehabilitator for a couple of years, this was taken at a presentation they were doing for some kids at a nearby camp in the summer of 2012.
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Another from my weekend walk with the 7DII, 600 f4L IS II and 1.4xIII extender. For the first time (at least as far as I can remember) I had too much reach shooting birds. This blackbird (only cropped slightly on the left side) jumped from that branch and a little bit closer and then I could not fit the whole bird in the frame. Never thought I´d have that problem 
One thing about the 7DII though, being used to the 1DX. The view finder is not in the same league.
1/640s, f6.3, ISO5000
One thing about the 7DII though, being used to the 1DX. The view finder is not in the same league.
1/640s, f6.3, ISO5000
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