p.128 #4 · Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G Image Thread
MedicineMan404 wrote:
You are indeed Peregrine master Joshua.
Robert, thank you very much! I actually use the GM 600mm lens more so than the G200-600mm lens. Lately though, I started using the zoom more often though. They are both great; different but both of them are really excellent
10 star Douglas! I need to plant something for the hummers at the retirement home. Suggestions? Bright red flowers? Something that can handle -20F and re-emerge the next summer.
p.128 #9 · Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G Image Thread
Red bergamot (also called monarda or bee balm) brings them the most - that's what almost all the images here have (and I have a pile of them as well - I just set up a chair near them and eventually they ignore me). It is very hardy and blooms a long time. Then if you can manage, cardinal flower blooms right as the bergamot finishes - but while bergamot grows anywhere, cardinal flower needs wet (I have it on the edge of my pond). I think cardinal flower is only pollinated by hummingbirds. It also has no trouble with -20F, which we regularly get here.
p.128 #10 · Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G Image Thread
MedicineMan404 wrote:
10 star Douglas! I need to plant something for the hummers at the retirement home. Suggestions? Bright red flowers? Something that can handle -20F and re-emerge the next summer.
OK I'm new enough here I've only just figured out the quote function - that message about the bergamot was for MedicineMan...
p.128 #11 · Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G Image Thread
photonoclast wrote:
OK I'm new enough here I've only just figured out the quote function - that message about the bergamot was for MedicineMan...
Beebalm ordered. Studying Cardinal Flower. Wet? No problem I'm surrounded by rhododendron and live in a (temperate) rain forest. Moss grows like in the Hoh here. Thanks for the suggestion.
p.128 #13 · Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G Image Thread
kdrk888 wrote:
^ beautiful shots, Geoff. Any new insights on the A7RIV+200-600 AF tricks?
Thanks....well it continues to give me a pretty good hit rate for all of these kinds of shots. For BIF it is working more than it ever used to. I don't know if new FW helped at all as I was already getting these improved results before that.
Basically I'm using TS 3, Release Priority AF-C, OSS OFF for high SS and OSS 3 for slower SS. MS and ES as needed. I even went back to a swallow location on the weekend and got a few more strings of shots in focus. Not as good as the A9 and much harder to track with stutter/blackout.
I'd still recommend A9/200-600/1.4TC over RIV and 200-600 but if someone needs RIV for other photography like landscapes etc then it sure could be a hybrid camera that does birds fairly well with the 2-6.
p.128 #15 · Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G Image Thread
MedicineMan404 wrote:
Beebalm ordered. Studying Cardinal Flower. Wet? No problem I'm surrounded by rhododendron and live in a (temperate) rain forest. Moss grows like in the Hoh here. Thanks for the suggestion.
Bee Balm (especially the big red ones) is like crack cocaine for them. Also before my Bee Balm blooms my Hot Lips Salvia is their favourite. Right now they are mixing between the two. I have a new Pinapple Sage that will bloom in fall I think and hoping they will like that as the other blooms go away. We keep our Anna's Hummingbirds all winter on V. Island so I will usually have a dominant male in full plumage by October set up shop and defend my backyard as his winter feeding grounds. That is good to have a splash of color all winter. You won't be able to pull that off where you are but at least you will have the Ruby Throat all Summer.
p.128 #16 · Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G Image Thread
MedicineMan404 wrote:
10 star Douglas! I need to plant something for the hummers at the retirement home. Suggestions? Bright red flowers? Something that can handle -20F and re-emerge the next summer.
Thank you Robert!
I started a small hummingbird "garden" (10'x10') in my front yard, planted maybe 6 or 7 different kinds of hummingbird attracting flowers, I noticed the best ones are beebalm and red cardinal flowers. I also have a feeder there too. The hummers come to the feeder at least a couple times an hour. I can photography them through my study's window, about 7-8' to the feeder.
p.128 #18 · Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G Image Thread
So beautiful. You and everyone else on this forum inspire me to go out and shoot again. And this lens made it possible for me. I just couldn't go out and buy a 600 f4
I feel like I need to go back through this thread and give everyone kudos. lol . So much good stuff here.
