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[tron]

Terrible conditions today, heavy cloud, mist, 1 oC. Used the 400mm DO II native at f/4 at Iso 1000 on 5DS R. This little robin has puffed himself into a ball to keep warm. 100% crop, bird is about 1 mpx from 50 mpx.

Congratulations Alan. It is a superb picture no matter the conditions. Have you used noise reduction? It is quite a clear picture and weakens my resistance to 5DsR...

 

[AlanF]

Terrible conditions today, heavy cloud, mist, 1 oC. Used the 400mm DO II native at f/4 at Iso 1000 on 5DS R. This little robin has puffed himself into a ball to keep warm. 100% crop, bird is about 1 mpx from 50 mpx.

Congratulations Alan. It is a superb picture no matter the conditions. Have you used noise reduction? It is quite a clear picture and weakens my resistance to 5DsR...

Thanks! It has my usual standard minimal processing. RAW into DxO Optics Pro with its PRIME noise reduction and CA/Fringes turned on. Then into PS for sharpening with 0.9 px 100% USM and cropping. The 5DS R is really good with sharp lenses, better than the 7DII. I'll have a play with other software to see what it is like with this shot.

 

[rnl]

Tundra Swan.
bird was 850 away.

1dxmk2 with ef600f4Lii+2xiii; polarizing filter inserted in lens.

 

[Aussie shooter]

850m away!!? Well done

 

[rnl]

Hey Jeff, that's great. It's the total package, the whole experience, that is addictive so even when I don't succeed it's exciting and only drives me to try harder. I was only minutes ago called by my wife - hey the Pileated woodpecker is here.

I had been doing AFMA and was then called to tend to my daughter's -20C furnace breakdown yesterday and so today grabbing the camera, everything was incorrectly set and I blew a nice sequence starting with this shot. I wouldn't normally have had this AF choice, but with spot servo AF surely this should have turned out - I'm thinking my 1DX2 has issues. Oh, well.

Jack


Looks like the camera read the contrast where the bird's head overlaps the tree.
The AF system reads contrast.

 

[rnl]

850m away!!? Well done

feet, not meters. ;D

 

[Aussie shooter]

850m away!!? Well done

feet, not meters. ;D

Haha. Should have known. When you lot gonna move over to metric

 

[rnl]

850m away!!? Well done

feet, not meters. ;D

Haha. Should have known. When you lot gonna move over to metric

Metric? With a mad child in the White House that's low on the list

 

[AlanF]

Look at my tongue. Waxwing this morning. 5DS R 400mm DO II @ 560mm

 

[AlanF]

And mine

 

[Click]

Beautiful pictures, Alan. 8)

 

[Don Haines]

Look at my tongue. Waxwing this morning. 5DS R 400mm DO II @ 560mm

Nice picture, one of my favourite birds......

 

[Don Haines]

Terrible conditions today, heavy cloud, mist, 1 oC. Used the 400mm DO II native at f/4 at Iso 1000 on 5DS R. This little robin has puffed himself into a ball to keep warm. 100% crop, bird is about 1 mpx from 50 mpx.

Very puffed up! Nice shot! I won't see robins around here for two months...... unless I watch a batman movie

 

[Jack Douglas]

Alan, gorgeous! Is that moire in the wing feathers?

Jack

 

[AlanF]

Alan, gorgeous! Is that moire in the wing feathers?

Jack

There is some Moire in the wing feathers, seen at high magnification but which won't affect the size of prints for my annual album. For birds at medium distance and in flight etc, the lack of AA-filter in the 5DS R gives significantly better results over say the 7DII and the 5DIV. But, occasionally you do get Moire with close-ups and a very sharp lens like the 400mm DO (± 1.4xTC) or even the 100-400mm II, which is the reason I got the 5DIV. Here it is OK, but I once had a kingfisher shot ruined by Moire. I don't know what the bird shooters with the Nikon D500 and 7200, and all the Olympus and Sony cameras find. Perhaps their soft lenses act like AA filters.

 

[sedwards]

Another Great Gray Owl
1dIV 200mm , f7.1 , 1/2000 , iso 640
This is about 2/3 of the original image
5D3_0743 by Stuart Edwards, on Flickr

 

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I really like this shot. Great picture, Stuart. 8)

 

[dcren123]

Not really a portrait but...

Eagle mob.

 

[dcren123]

White-tailed Eagle in Hokkaido Japan.

 

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White-tailed Eagle in Hokkaido Japan.

Very nice shot.