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02-06-2017, 11:22 AM   #24601
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QuoteOriginally posted by JML69 Quote
Red Shoulder Hawk from Saturday.
I notice you shot at 410mm.
Just curious if you notice higher IQ shooting slightly below max zoom?

Does 410mm cropped show better results than 450mm with the same FOV?

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QuoteOriginally posted by UserAccessDenied Quote
I notice you shot at 410mm.
Just curious if you notice higher IQ shooting slightly below max zoom?

Does 410mm cropped show better results than 450mm with the same FOV?
I just received the lens on Friday so I have yet to learn "Her Ways of Behaving", but my initial impressions are quite Favorable.
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QuoteOriginally posted by JML69 Quote
I just received the lens on Friday so I have yet to learn "Her Ways of Behaving", but my initial impressions are quite Favorable.
Looks like a spectacular lens!
Enjoy it and keep posting pictures here!!

I always find myself looking at this lens after weeks of convincing that I don't need it...
It's a beaut!
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QuoteOriginally posted by JML69 Quote
Red Shoulder Hawk from Saturday.
Looks a lot like our Brown Goshawk.

K3, Bigma F8 @ 500mm. At about 30 metres/yards (bee at about 29 metres 100% crop left corner).

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QuoteOriginally posted by ccc_ Quote
and here I thought we were the folks inclined toward hyperbolic descriptors
you made me look...superb...splendid...
candidates for a reality show with their sexual mores

it is indeed a superb little bird with his tail cocked
Yeah, the females are a sensible brown, Ccc, the intensity and hue of the blue on the males changes during the breeding season - they really bling up.

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Ruby-crowned kinglet (three photo collage)
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The Java sparrow (Lonchura oryzivora), also known as Java finch, Java rice sparrow or Java rice bird, is a small passerine bird. This estrildid finch is a resident breeding bird in Java, Bali and Bawean in Indonesia. It is a popular cage bird, and has been introduced in a large number of other countries (Info extracted from Wiki).

My lifer and got it with my K70 + Sigma 150-500mm HSM during the new year holidays in my home town. This bird is under Threatened with vulnerable species from the Wiki page.





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QuoteOriginally posted by riseform Quote
Ruby-crowned kinglet (three photo collage)
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Great composition!
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Barred Owl from Yesterday Evening.
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From my first day in the Everglades. These were taken on the Big Cypress Loop with the camera handheld or on a beanbag in my car window. Takes with 150-600 Zoom lens at varying focal lengths. One of the challenges for me in the Everglades was spotting birds through the dense vegetation. The Green Heron was hiding in the dense growth. The hardest shot was the Wood Stork (I think it is a wood stork) that kept moving quickly in random directions with its head bobbing in and out of the water. Easier shots were the only turtle I saw - this one on the road and naturally the gators were laid back getting warm. The wildlife loop was about 25 miles long with 12 miles of good viewing locations.
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I caught a turtle about that size while fly fishing for carp last summer

they don't understand "fight or flight" or "catch and release"
they are surprisingly fast and aggressive

I was fortunate that my pliers were VERY long

my son had raised a three incher that eventually fit tipped into a 100 gallon stock tank and ate five pound carp in single sitting
thank goodness the local zoo took him off his hands
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QuoteOriginally posted by ccc_ Quote
I caught a turtle about that size while fly fishing for carp last summer

they don't understand "fight or flight" or "catch and release"
they are surprisingly fast and aggressive

I was fortunate that my pliers were VERY long

my son had raised a three incher that eventually fit tipped into a 100 gallon stock tank and ate five pound carp in single sitting
thank goodness the local zoo took him off his hands
That turtle wasn't very big - I would guess 8 inches - getting warm on the road
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ours are "common" snappers
florida has a lot of alligator snapping turtles, which is where david's came from

the smallest I have taken on a fly was probably ten or twelve inches (just the shell)
the biggest was about the size of an ashcan lid (20-30 pounds?)
I just got as close as I could and snipped the tippet
he was too big to work the hook out without losing some (of my) anatomy in the process

the alligators will wiggle their tongues as "bait"
pretty dramatic feeding regimen when they are in an aquarium

I liked your images, by the way
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I'm hoping that I can get some recommendations here or suggestions of another thread on the forum for answers. This past year I've purchased both a Sigma 300mm 2.8 and Sigma 500mm 4.5 from forum members and both lens appear to be in near mint condition. My first goal in getting back into photography after 25 years away from SLR photography is to photograph birds. This 300mm thread has been a wonderful learning experience about technique and tools which is why I chose these two particular lenses. A number of outstanding photographers here use these two lenses and produce some of the most beautiful, razor sharp photographs. I have a K3 and a K3ll and am still in the learning curve of digital photography but am getting some of the basics sorted out. The 500mm lens is reasonably sharp but I suspect isn't 100% matching up with the camera body to give really sharp pictures but its close enough that it might just be my limitations. The pictures I see posted here often are so sharp as to be nearly unbelievable. I know that this is a combination of all the gear operating at its best as well as great skill of the photographer. I'm probably a long way from that level of ability so the 500mm lens might be tack sharp and I'm not. The 300mm, 2.8 though is way off. I've struggled trying to do fine focus in camera adjustments in my home at a distance of 25 feet using a meter scale at a 45 degree angle. Once I get the lens adjusted I can go outside (where it is very cold this time of year) and shoot objects like wooden fences and roof parts that are 15 to 30 feet away and the lens seems pretty sharp. When I drive to the local river where there is no ice I can shoot Mallards from 50 to 60 feet away (makes them pretty small) and when I enlarge the pics on the back of the camera they are ALL way out of focus. I've been fiddling with this for a week now and am nearly burned out and am hoping someone can point me to an exact method of adjusting big telephoto lenses. Anybody have any ideas? Anybody in the US that can do this precisely?

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