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Mergansers, Tammy 150~600mm @ 320mm

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[tduell]

Male Flame Robin.
K-3 II, DFA 150-450, handheld. See exif for shot details.

Cheers,
Terry

[alfa75ts]

Male Flame Robin.

So that's where they went Nice shot Terry.

[tduell]

So that's where they went Nice shot Terry.

Thanks Craig.
Very few Robins here this season, but maybe I'm looking in the wrong places.
This is only the second male Flame I've spotted thus far.
A few years ago I would have lost count by now.

Cheers,
Terry

[alfa75ts]

This is only the second male Flame I've spotted thus far.

I've only had the one this year, the females seem to turn up a few days before the male/s then they disappear. I'm told that there's lots at the You Yangs.

Pardalotes today:

[normhead]

A few K-1 and DA 55-300 PLM, awesome light weight telephoto and quite acceptable if you leave room to crop.

A mother Gull shares a huge catfish with her chicks, who are now as big as she is.
@300mm






The PLM vignettes in the corners, but still gives you much more useful image (on a 36MP camera FF camera) than shooting the same image with a 24 MP APS-c camera. In one image (not shown) the picture is a final 30 MP. The same picture taken with APS-c would have been about 20 MP. For most images, it's still an advantage shooting on a K-1, and the light weight makes it pretty much a no brainer for hiking and telephoto in good light. Those gulls are 100 meters away, the 55-300 PLM holds it's own even at distance. Rare for a lens of this class.

I'd definitely recommend it to any beginner wanting to try out telephoto photography on a K-1, who didn't want to pay a mountain of cash for the privilege.

[traderdrew]

Sigma 500mm F/4.5

[str8talk83]

Lens is light so it gets used more often. I have made several videos using this lens, it is possible to hand hold it for 10 minutes or more.


Lens is sharp. In order to see the real sharpness, I have set the sharpness for default jpeg to zero. This made the sharpness of jpeg embedded in RAW as zero. Many image viewers show the embedded jpeg, and that makes it difficult to judge the sharpness. That is why I set the default jpeg's sharpness to zero. Images posted above were clearly sharp at 100%. When doing BIF number of images where beak is clearly sharp are low. This depends on body. I have not tested this lens with D500.

You must be excited to get 500PF lens. Waiting list goes for 6months.

The trick is calling smaller camera stores. I found myself one by printing off the authorized dealer list and calling stores. Took me less than an hour and I was able to find a fellow forum member a copy as well.

I’m very pleased so far and will post images soon.

[Ducatigaz]

A couple of red Kite close ups from my car with a K-3ii/FA*600mm F4 ED [IF]/ Eckla window mount.

[northcoastgreg]

Snow egret, with the DA* 300 + DA 1.4x converter:

[normhead]

Snow egret, with the DA* 300 + DA 1.4x converter:

It doesn't get much better than that.

[Dan Rentea]

The bird for which I start shooting wildlife: common kingfsher (f8, ISO 640, 1/400s, @600mm)




A beautiful predator looking for his next meal (f6.3, ISO 1000, 1/800s, @600mm)

[wtlwdwgn]

Mergansers, Tammy 150~600mm @ 320mm

Walt, what camera body are you attaching that Tammy to?

[normhead]

The bird for which I start shooting wildlife: common kingfsher (f8, ISO 640, 1/400s, @600mm)




A beautiful predator looking for his next meal (f6.3, ISO 1000, 1/800s, @600mm)

Looking good Dan.

[boriscleto]

Walt, what camera body are you attaching that Tammy to?

His profile says Canon 7D. But the photo EXIF says Nikon D7100. IIRC he switched a while back. He shoots MFT too...