MedicineMan404 wrote:
Well you know maybe that I've used the Nikkor 300/4 PF on the a9 and it's not bad. Not native but good enough for larger BIF species.
Not good enough for the price, and f4, and with adapter.
I just want a Sony 300 f2.8 PF for the same price.
For small, fast, and erratic flight.
Really large crop. Swallow's target is small bug on surface of water.
Imagemaster wrote:
Not good enough for the price, and f4, and with adapter.
I just want a Sony 300 f2.8 PF for the same price.
For small, fast, and erratic flight.
Really large crop. Swallow's target is small bug on surface of water.
You want same price....me I want the Moon.....same weight!
Impossible I know I know. But I labored under the weight of the EOS 300/2.8ISii for too long.
Who knows, maybe an FE 300/2.8 is one of 'the twelve' promised.
Low down ducks...A9 flippy screen at work....the Wood duck at water's edge for super low, the Hoodies was holding the camera over a 1.5ft drop to get as low as possible but not as good as being at water's edge...
The big difference I find is if you can be at water's edge your background is actually far shoreline and you eliminate all the messy reflections like in the Hoody shots because the background is the water. Applies to the foreground also where most is well OOF when super low.
Finally after many years got a good look at one of my favorite birds - the Varied Thrush.
Bout one of the only good points I can find about our recent weather here in the PNW. Taken on the Sigma 500/4 Sport with the MC-11.
arbitrage wrote:
Low down ducks...A9 flippy screen at work....the Wood duck at water's edge for super low, the Hoodies was holding the camera over a 1.5ft drop to get as low as possible but not as good as being at water's edge...
The big difference I find is if you can be at water's edge your background is actually far shoreline and you eliminate all the messy reflections like in the Hoody shots because the background is the water. Applies to the foreground also where most is well OOF when super low.
Thanks Geoff. Not only are those great photos, the comparison of camera height was educational.
Hooded Merganser, Terra Nova on the Middle Arm of the Fraser River. Vancouver Airport Seaplane base area. I bought into the Sony world to get into bird photography. Canon's 600 f/4 IS II is just too heavy for me to shoot BIF and my gimbal is only good for seagulls near stationary into a wind. Pelicans too, but they're scarce here
So far I'm a rank amateur at BIF, but I do have a few very sharp tail feathers and wing tips
