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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Whats your experience, 70D vs 7D Shutter scaring away hummingbirds? | |
March 3rd or sooner I will be buying a low mileage 7D or new 70D, just can't afford the 7D II this spring.
Both the 70D and 7D trade blows in features, cost etc. Coming from the EOS-M I will undoubtedly be in hog heaven either way.
My question is the following;
At distances of 5 - 12 feet or 1.5 - 3.5 meters is the shutter sound of the 7D going to be considerably more likely to run off a mother hummingbird from the area of her nest, than a 70D?
I am often shooting in larger city parks or a small aviary that are all within city limits. (Pacific Northwest USA woodlands.) It is hard to get away from traffic noise but certainly doesn't have the masking noise of a jungle canopy.
Last spring I took thousands of images of an Anna's hummer nest from eggs to fledglings. The mirrorless M is very quite but due to the rapid body movements of both the mother and hatch-lings I and the slow focusing abilities of the M I had to take thousands of images to get the few special images I was after.
I actually need at least 7 fps to catch flat fleeting split second the mothers gorget flashes at just the right angle between the sunset and my lens.
Heavy cropping is always involved as they are very small even at 250mm.
Below is an example of an image from about 5 feet. It was rather quite there and I took about 24 images before she took off with the quite little M and 55-250 STM. 300L IS next winter.
Anna's Female, no flash.
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