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Thanks Jack Douglas! Your picture is also a very good one.Jack Douglas said:
There is also a eurasian pygmy owl couple living not far from my home. I managed to get the first acceptably good picture of one of the two owls a bit less than three weeks ago (and this is the only picture of them so far). Unfortunately there is always quite dark in the dense bruce forest they are living so I had to use ISO 6400 to get a shutter speed of 1/200s to freeze the birds motion.
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lion rock said:
For sure.
Looks to me like the mouse was anything but poor before he met his demise.
Jack
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I would like to share two pictures I have taken during my trip to Botswana and Namibia 2014. Both pictures were taken at the border of the Chobe River the same day. One shows a 'Southern Carmine Bee-Eater' and the other is a 'Malachite Kingfisher'. It was very difficult to get one nice picture of this Kingfisher as I was on a boat that rocked heavily in wind and rainy weather, the tiny bird sitting on a straw moving up and down constantly. It took around 30 pics to get one nice...
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I'm slowly coming up to speed with this set up: 7D2, 500mm f/4 with 1.4x III. I think the AFMA is just about right now. I am beginning to fully appreciate the technique required to get reasonable shots with a 700mm lens on a crop body. Fortunately this fellow was very cooperative and I was able to get a few portraits as well as a handful in flight. Quality was reduced slightly in order to get under the 5MB size limit here. From my back yard ...
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Hey Alan, very nice. The gator crops out so no problem but cute.
Kind of miss your 300 X2 promos of late.
Yesterday I actually contemplated selling my 300 II and getting a 100-400 II but 300@ 2.8 kept coming back to mind to trouble me. Being able to zoom sure his benefits as I find with my 70-200.
Jack
Kind of miss your 300 X2 promos of late.
Yesterday I actually contemplated selling my 300 II and getting a 100-400 II but 300@ 2.8 kept coming back to mind to trouble me. Being able to zoom sure his benefits as I find with my 70-200.
Jack
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Jack with all due respect - this is not my business and there is always a reason for selling - it would be best if you bought the 100-400 II as a present to ... your 300 2.8 II ;D ;D ;DJack Douglas said:Hey Alan, very nice. The gator crops out so no problem but cute.
Kind of miss your 300 X2 promos of late.
Yesterday I actually contemplated selling my 300 II and getting a 100-400 II but 300@ 2.8 kept coming back to mind to trouble me. Being able to zoom sure his benefits as I find with my 70-200.
Jack
The only problem (except of course for the reason of sale) will be that you will always have to decide which of the two to use... ;D
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Jack, I have been contemplating selling my 300/2.8 II for a 400 DO II. But, every time I decide to keep the 300. I think next time I go on safari etc, the 300 at f2.8 will be indispensable for dawn and dusk, and I love it at 420mm with my 7DII. I really do recommend you get the 100-400 II as an addition to complement the big fat 300!
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Tron, I am not rich and famous like Alan or Neuro.
If I buy the 1DX II I will realistically not be able to afford any lens. Kidding aside, what I have is very close to perfectly sufficient. 11 to 400 in zooms if you include the 1.4X and 2X. 300 @2.8, 420 @ 4 and 600 @ 5.6. All very decent quality.
Talking birds here. I find the 300 X 2 to be great for hiking and in the bush I hardly ever have a need for less than 600, often more. The 1.4 X hardly ever gets used in that scenario. It's in a blind where both small and larger birds may happen to come by, alighting both closer and further, that a zoom really helps. Zoom is also very handy for BIF where framing is tricky. To illustrate, when I was shooting eagles in flight in Haida Gwaii I had the 1D4 with 300 X2. Full focus was too slow but if you pre-focus to a suspected distance and don't hit the back button until the bird is in the frame it snaps into focus virtually instantly. Not once did I go with the 1.4X because I already needed to crop a fair amount and an eagle was hardly ever bigger than the frame (it did happen though but I only missed a couple good shots).
Of course I get gas but honestly I'm very fortunate and happy to have what I have and you don't find me complaining about Canon.
Jack
If I buy the 1DX II I will realistically not be able to afford any lens. Kidding aside, what I have is very close to perfectly sufficient. 11 to 400 in zooms if you include the 1.4X and 2X. 300 @2.8, 420 @ 4 and 600 @ 5.6. All very decent quality.
Talking birds here. I find the 300 X 2 to be great for hiking and in the bush I hardly ever have a need for less than 600, often more. The 1.4 X hardly ever gets used in that scenario. It's in a blind where both small and larger birds may happen to come by, alighting both closer and further, that a zoom really helps. Zoom is also very handy for BIF where framing is tricky. To illustrate, when I was shooting eagles in flight in Haida Gwaii I had the 1D4 with 300 X2. Full focus was too slow but if you pre-focus to a suspected distance and don't hit the back button until the bird is in the frame it snaps into focus virtually instantly. Not once did I go with the 1.4X because I already needed to crop a fair amount and an eagle was hardly ever bigger than the frame (it did happen though but I only missed a couple good shots).
Of course I get gas but honestly I'm very fortunate and happy to have what I have and you don't find me complaining about Canon.
Jack
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Alan, you commentary is always pretty well thought out and I align with it other than limited resources coming into play. 400 DO II is very tempting but ...... Losing 2.8 is not exactly desirable for sure.
Jack
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Your bird shots are very nice. Can you share your opinion of 1D4 and the AF parameters you use for BIF?Jack Douglas said:Tron, I am not rich and famous like Alan or Neuro.
If I buy the 1DX II I will realistically not be able to afford any lens. Kidding aside, what I have is very close to perfectly sufficient. 11 to 400 in zooms if you include the 1.4X and 2X. 300 @2.8, 420 @ 4 and 600 @ 5.6. All very decent quality.
Talking birds here. I find the 300 X 2 to be great for hiking and in the bush I hardly ever have a need for less than 600, often more. The 1.4 X hardly ever gets used in that scenario. It's in a blind where both small and larger birds may happen to come by, alighting both closer and further, that a zoom really helps. Zoom is also very handy for BIF where framing is tricky. To illustrate, when I was shooting eagles in flight in Haida Gwaii I had the 1D4 with 300 X2. Full focus was too slow but if you pre-focus to a suspected distance and don't hit the back button until the bird is in the frame it snaps into focus virtually instantly. Not once did I go with the 1.4X because I already needed to crop a fair amount and an eagle was hardly ever bigger than the frame (it did happen though but I only missed a couple good shots).
Of course I get gas but honestly I'm very fortunate and happy to have what I have and you don't find me complaining about Canon.
Jack
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