Steve Perry wrote:
Starting to sort through some of the 6000+ images from my trip last week. Here's just a warm up - love the speed of the D500
My favorite ducks to hunt and eat. They give you an excuse to have to the most ridiculous and visible decoy spread ever. 2 dozen hand painted black bellied, 2 dozen cans, and 4 dozen mixed teal decoys is the best black hole ever.
I understand the lots of shots. I took over 1000 shots of a fox family inside 100 yards with a 800mm and a 1.6tc. The bad news is the xqd reader hasn't come in yet and waiting on the camera to upload. Been waiting about 3 hours now and on the third battery. The keeper rate on this camera is insane.
Awesome photos everyone.
A couple of surf shots from Northshore Oahu.
I purposely shot these backlit to see what is possible with the D500 and 200-500mm lens.
morrismike wrote:
My favorite ducks to hunt and eat. They give you an excuse to have to the most ridiculous and visible decoy spread ever. 2 dozen hand painted black bellied, 2 dozen cans, and 4 dozen mixed teal decoys is the best black hole ever.
I understand the lots of shots. I took over 1000 shots of a fox family inside 100 yards with a 800mm and a 1.6tc. The bad news is the xqd reader hasn't come in yet and waiting on the camera to upload. Been waiting about 3 hours now and on the third battery. The keeper rate on this camera is insane....Show more →
I have to say, never thought of eating them when I was out there
And yup, the math seems right - 10 FPS + lots of action = 1000s of shots, that's for sure. My D4 would do that to me as well, so I'm used to it
The foxes sounds cool - hope the reader comes in soon.
Steve Perry wrote:
I have to say, never thought of eating them when I was out there
And yup, the math seems right - 10 FPS + lots of action = 1000s of shots, that's for sure. My D4 would do that to me as well, so I'm used to it
The foxes sounds cool - hope the reader comes in soon.
It took 3 batteries but I got them over on the USB cable. I'm processing now. A few of them are 20k iso and look great. I only auto toned them and corrected exposure. I will post a few in a bit. What is the best when I export 800 wide and how many lines per inch?
I will cherry pick the best raws and reprocess them. I'm not putting much effort into that because it will be sunny this afternoon and I'll shoot more and get video.
morrismike wrote:
What is the best when I export 800 wide and how many lines per inch?
Looking forward to seeing them - not sure what your question is though Are you taking DPI / PPI? Doesn't really matter, it'll display the same if it's 800px wide. Feel free to use my sharpening actions from his video:
Here they are. I stink at PP. Basically just auto tone and exposure correction. I selected the export sharpening. Theses are all 14 to 20k ISO. The camera sees my af'ing TC as a 70-210 f4 zoom (same CPU). The lens was a 800mm f/5.6 and the range was 90 yards. There is no crop and it was cloudy. The sun will come out this afternoon though. I seem to be back focusing and need to calibrate the lens/tc combo I think.
These are taken with the D500 and a 20 year old 300 2.8 AFS D Lens. Very contrasty light. This camera has excellent sharpness and focuses as good or better than my D4. I'm totally sold.
morrismike wrote:
Here they are. I stink at PP. Basically just auto tone and exposure correction. I selected the export sharpening. Theses are all 14 to 20k ISO. The camera sees my af'ing TC as a 70-210 f4 zoom (same CPU). The lens was a 800mm f/5.6 and the range was 90 yards. There is no crop and it was cloudy. The sun will come out this afternoon though. I seem to be back focusing and need to calibrate the lens/tc combo I think.
Steve Perry wrote:
Very cute!
There are many much better pics with lower isos. I've got pictures of them doing flip, somersaults and everything else. I just wanted to show it looks ok up to 20000 iso. My export hard drive crashed about 15 minutes after I backed up my import files. I have to start all over again. I'm not able to look at my images at all in DNG (extra large thumbnails) prior to going to LR never had that problem with d7100 raws
Hopefully in a few hours I will have some iso 100-400 photos to process if the sun makes it out. I'm not sure how long the family is going to stay on the farm now the youngins are full grown. I'm hoping to get the rig calibrated and try again next weekend.
Awesome photos everyone.
A couple of surf shots from Northshore Oahu.
I purposely shot these backlit to see what is possible with the D500 and 200-500mm lens.
Joe those surfing shots take my breath away, absolutely fantastic.
Here's a couple of racing dog shots, they do a lap in 28 seconds, you have little time for thought.
Are you taking DPI / PPI? Doesn't really matter, it'll display the same if it's 800px wide. Feel free to use my sharpening actions from his video:
