technic wrote:
Difficult to judge on web size images, but they look good to me for such an extremely fast/agile subject. Maybe 1/6400 isn't fast enough for critical sharpness? Do you have much sharper images of the same subject?
can you point me to where in my post did i say anything about sharpness because i looked...and sure as shit couldn't find it!!!
there is a difference between sharp and cropping a file too far that it destroys detail
arbitrage wrote:
I have yet to see a Rufous and was hoping a male would arrive (as they usually do first) as I've never had shots of a male before. I will keep my eyes out for them this week. .
Usually they arrive 2-3 weeks before the females. When we lived in Nanoose several years ago, we had one of the highest counts of Rufous in British Columbia. We had from 400-700 visiting our feeders each day. They were consuming twenty 8 ounce feeders per day.
That's a beauty Tony...better than all my attempts so far this year. That D500/300PF is made for that type of shooting...the 1DX2 didn't stand a chance when I tried them back to back for the swallows over water or marsh (for sky both are fine).
Now I'm motivated to get out and try again, just need to find a better spot to shoot from!!
arbitrage wrote:
That's a beauty Tony...better than all my attempts so far this year. That D500/300PF is made for that type of shooting...the 1DX2 didn't stand a chance when I tried them back to back for the swallows over water or marsh (for sky both are fine).
Now I'm motivated to get out and try again, just need to find a better spot to shoot from!!
Thanks, it was not a great morning for shooting them; windy, poor light, and water reflections. I knew they were probably just migrating through and that would be my only chance.
Big question: Would the D850 AF been as good or better? Always easier to track birds with a larger FOV and crop in PP. If the 5DsR had the same tracking ability and fps as the D500, it would have been a winner for me.
Imagemaster wrote:
Thanks, it was not a great morning for shooting them; windy, poor light, and water reflections. I knew they were probably just migrating through and that would be my only chance.
Big question: Would the D850 AF been as good or better? Always easier to track birds with a larger FOV and crop in PP. If the 5DsR had the same tracking ability and fps as the D500, it would have been a winner for me.
I shot both D850 and D500 for some swallows and I couldn't really conclude if one was better than the other. For some of it I was using AutoAF and thought the D500 was reacting better (maybe??). But with Group AF they seemed similar. The wider FOV was helpful to keep them in frame and get on them to some extent but I also liked the more magnified view of the D500. Overall I didn't really prefer one over the other and I got a few keepers with either camera.
The swallows nest in my yard so I should have them around for the next few months...may get better flight opportunities around my yard going back and forth from the boxes. I found the hardest thing was that when they did come close enough to get good pixels on them that the AF wouldn't keep up and often I didn't keep up with the panning.
