Thanks Alan - I almost sent you personal message (I was pretty sure you will know what is going on!) when I notice you already posted some advise - and it works! Thanks again!
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Show your Bird Portraits
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I have a very short ride to work, and also don’t have a decent storage area there. I also don’t want to leave it in the Northeast cold car during work due to the battery issue, and a having a visible camera/telephoto zoom lens in view.
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My local dealer dropped round a Canon demo RF800 a couple of days ago for me to play with for a week. The weather has been awful here and f/11 hasn't helped. Initial tests with the R5 on charts at distance and close ups on a £10 note have shown that it gives similar image quality to my 400mm DO II +2xTC at a distance of 20m but gets worse at short distances and is soft at its mfd of 6m. Today I tried it out in a meadow behind my house at iso 3200. By good chance, the local Little Egret perched in a tree and I got a good sharp shot. And, far in the distance, I could see a Blackbird with what appeared to be something white. It turned out to be leucistic. It was really far away, but the 100% crop at iso3200 and pushed through 1 ev is pretty acceptable. However, a close up of a Robin, not shown, was disappointing and I would have got a much sharper shot from the 100-500mm. I'll try it out some more as hopefully there should be better weather this weekend.
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@AlanF I really appreciate your continued exploration of various lens options. In my hands, the adapted EF 300 f/2.8ii and 2x TC yields best results but it is just so big and impactable to carry far. The adapted EF 100-400 mkii and 1.4x TC is an easier carry but moving to 2x drops the IQ too much. I am trying an RF 800 this weekend but, just using in my yard, I rapidly realize the issues with MFD and no zoom and f/11. I am certain that someday, the RF 100-500 with a TC and, when I know ahead of time, the combo of the 300 with TC will be a better solution. Now, I just need to out how to pay for it.
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Probably. Still no R5, R6 or RF lenses in our stores. Only overpriced ones on eBay are available. And B&H and Amazon do not ship these models to Qatar for some reason.
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Had to visit London this morning and managed to get 15 minutes in Regent's Park. Very cold and dull and had to shoot at iso4000 at 500mm f/7.1 on the R5. These are 100% crops from the centre of a Songthrush and a Great Tit straight out of DxO PL with no further noise reduction than its Deepprime. I don't know why some claim the R5 is noisy - it's easily controlled with decent software, and I posted these to show it.
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Yet another sign of climate change:
Great white egrets usually live further to the south, esp. during the winter.
But since a few years they move further north and also stay resident here in Franconia.
Good for me, so I can get those pics below. Notice the ducks trying to photobomb this
Great white egrets usually live further to the south, esp. during the winter.
But since a few years they move further north and also stay resident here in Franconia.
Good for me, so I can get those pics below. Notice the ducks trying to photobomb this
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We need birds to come to us as we can't travel to see them at present! Nice shots!Yet another sign of climate change:
Great white egrets usually live further to the south, esp. during the winter.
But since a few years they move further north and also stay resident here in Franconia.
Good for me, so I can get those pics below. Notice the ducks trying to photobomb this
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