AGeoJO wrote:
I was about to get my pan ready for your escargot, Ronny! It is so life-like.....
Green violet ear hummer from, well, you guessed it, Costa Rica . This was captured at a higher elevation in the mountains in the same habitat as quetzals.
Thanks Joshua for the stunning shots.
How do you focus? With AF? Or manually? TIA.
k-h.a.w wrote:
Thanks Joshua for the stunning shots.
How do you focus? With AF? Or manually? TIA.
K-H.
Hi K-H,
Thank you! I used AF most of the time for those long shots. I used the advance mode of the Metabones IV for those two. How do I remember that? Actually, I don't but the giveaway is the aperture indication of the exif being f/3.9. On the default or green mode of the adapter, it gives me f/4. The AF is excellent and quite fast and it worked 90% of the time or so on that trip. The AF algorithm of the lens seems to jive very well with the algorithm of Metabones. The long focal length is not conducive for fast AF but the fast aperture of f/2.8 helped the case and apparently made more than up for that.
I am considering starting a thread, detailing my experience of using a long or longish Canon lens with an adapter for wildlife shooting. Some folks on the Nature & Wildlife forum asked questions, as well. I hope I can do that soon.
Coming to m43 and Sony gear from Nikon and Leica stuff, I have never owned a Canon lens.
Your tele Canon lens in your expert hands certainly delivers stunning images with great IQ on the Sony A7r.2. Congratulations!
For long tele lenses I have gone in a different direction, first with Leica R lenses and now with m43.
My m43 Olympus 300/4 Pro lens, including the MC-14 1.4x TC, delivers outstanding optical performance.
Hopefully soon I can use that lens on an E-M1 II.
Bolesławiec (Boleslavia/Bunzlau) the little city in my region,well known for it's ceramics with distinctive designs and vibrant,well saturated colours like this:
A7+MC W.Rokkor HH 35/1.8
. This was captured at a higher elevation in the mountains in the same habitat as quetzals.
