After a long night of fishing, struggling with darkness, wind and difficult casting, I gave myself three hours of sleep before getting out of the tent at 5:30. The birds were singing, the sun broke through the clouds and the wind was gone. One hour later this beautiful 8kg salmon was landed. My largest and probably the last one this year as season is coming to and end.
A female juvenile peregrine falcon that was about ready to take her maiden voyage. We encourage her to do so but she wasn’t quite ready yet that day, Sunday, Aug. 11. I would say she is flying by now or maybe later on in the afternoon. That image was taken in the morning. This in one of my first few images captured with the new native long zoom lens. I mean longer than 400mm although here, based on the distance, I had to zoom out.
AGeoJO wrote:
A female juvenile peregrine falcon that was about ready to take her maiden voyage. We encourage her to do so but she wasn’t quite ready yet that day, Sunday, Aug. 11. I would say she is flying by now or maybe later on in the afternoon. That image was taken in the morning. This in one of my first few images captured with the new native long zoom lens. I mean longer than 400mm although here, based on the distance, I had to zoom out.
Hi Joshua,
That looks great. So are you planning on keeping both the 600 GM and the 200-600 G zoom?
That looks great. So are you planning on keeping both the 600 GM and the 200-600 G zoom?
Rich
Thank you, Rich! I know the 600mm lens stays but I am still debating, which one to keep; the GM 100-400mm or the 200-600mm. Each has its advantages and disadvantages...
AGeoJO wrote:
Thank you, Rich! I know the 600mm lens stays but I am still debating, which one to keep; the GM 100-400mm or the 200-600mm. Each has its advantages and disadvantages...
Hi Joshua,
Thanks for the response. As I have mentioned I won't be able or at least willing to spend the money on the 600mm (to save my marriage), but I have decided now to put my whole Mamiya 7II system up for sale:
From the sale of what is already up on the Boards and the Mamiya 7II system, I should easily have enough money for the 200-600mm G zoom. I will have to the determine how much more money the sales will provide toward one of the soon to be released cameras or an A9.
So, I intend to keep my 100-400mm GM and then the 200-600mm G as well. I can use them for the same as well as different purposes. The GM lens is more practical for travel, small package, weight, flowers and fairly close even into the macro realm, and landscape work. The 200-600mm G lens would mainly be relegated to animal photography and I could have both lenses mounted on 2 different cameras at the same time.
A7RII and Sigma 150-600, I think I used a Tamron 1.4x TC on both images (Sigma TC-1401 on the way). The Sigma 150-600 is probably my favorite lens since I moved to the East Bay.
Golen Gate peeking through the clouds just before the golden hour.
Sutro Tower from the East By at golden hour/almost blue hour.
Looking down from the top of the Preserve,
Tripod mounted 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 GM set to 250mm and A7rIII, silent shutter.
ISO 200, f14,1/15 second,
Exposure corrected +0.12 Stops
July 15, 2019
From the top of the Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, PA.
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