I just watched this video about the new Canon RF 800mm f5.6
At 1:00 of the video, I recognize the location where he was shooting the ducks, it's the same place I was shooting several times recently, Oakley Street in Cambridge, Maryland. That location is called "Wall of Shame", because the ducks are in large numbers and they can get as close as 10' because people feed them. I am surprised he chose such an easy place to showcase the lens.
Douglas L wrote:
I just watched this video about the new Canon RF 800mm f5.6
At 1:00 of the video, I recognize the location where he was shooting the ducks, it's the same place I was shooting several times recently, Oakley Street in Cambridge, Maryland. That location is called "Wall of Shame", because the ducks are in large numbers and they can get as close as 10' because people feed them. I am surprised he chose such an easy place to showcase the lens.
Thanks for the info on the location, Doug! Not too many people know the shooting circumstances there, I guess and they, Canon, in this case, needs to up the ante with a longer lens, considering the more limited cropping ability of the 24MP sensor of the R3 . I have to admit though, relative to their existing RF 600mm, because of the new design, this new lens is fairly short and light with better MFD. Kudos to the Canon’s optical department for that! How popular this lens will be that appeals only to a small segment of photographers, however, remains to be seen…
AGeoJO wrote:
Thanks for the info on the location, Doug! Not too many people know the shooting circumstances there, I guess and they, Canon, in this case, needs to up the ante with a longer lens, considering the more limited cropping ability of the 24MP sensor of the R3 . I have to admit though, relative to their existing RF 600mm, because of the new design, this new lens is fairly short and light with better MFD. Kudos to the Canon’s optical department for that! How popular this lens will be that appeals only to a small segment of photographers, however, remains to be seen…...Show more →
That location for local birders is as well known as Conowingo, so I didn't give away any state secret. Ideally I prefer a 600 f4 with built-in 1.4 TC, with a flip of the switch I am at 840mmm f5.6 and back to 600mm f4. My 1.4 TC is pretty much glued to the 600 GM.
Watched the BH video as well. They don't exactly show off the lenses true capabilities with some of the images which is par for their other product demo videos
Douglas L wrote:
I just watched this video about the new Canon RF 800mm f5.6
At 1:00 of the video, I recognize the location where he was shooting the ducks, it's the same place I was shooting several times recently, Oakley Street in Cambridge, Maryland. That location is called "Wall of Shame", because the ducks are in large numbers and they can get as close as 10' because people feed them. I am surprised he chose such an easy place to showcase the lens.
C'mon Douglas... you're giving up all the secrets. Do we need to be that specific?
Besides, no one knows exactly where most of these other photos were taken that get posted here. But I have good intel that quite a few are in locations where the birds are pretty well habituated to humans just like our little spot in MD
149113 wrote:
C'mon Douglas... you're giving up all the secrets. Do we need to be that specific?
Besides, no one knows exactly where most of these other photos were taken that get posted here. But I have good intel that quite a few are in locations where the birds are pretty well habituated to humans just like our little spot in MD
I could tell where some of the rest of the footage were shot from too, it's the national wildlife refuge bird folks in the several nearby states all frequent. I would think they would find more exotic and challenging locations to shoot to show off their new big white, not where you park your car and walk 20'.
Douglas L wrote:
I could tell where some of the rest of the footage were shot from too, it's the national wildlife refuge bird folks in the several nearby states all frequent. I would think they would find more exotic and challenging locations to shoot to show off their new big white, not where you park your car and walk 20'.
I recognized it as well. I guess they were on a limited budget and wanted to get this produced as quickly as possible. Candidly, the photos were not even high quality and it wasn't the lenses fault either
149113 wrote:
For ISO 10k that's really quite good
Thank you very much, Alex! That was captured towards the end of the day when the lighting conditions became lower and lower but I liked the overall soft lighting then. I could have lowered the shutter speed but… oh, well. I ran that file through Denoise AI and the difference is definitely visible on my 27” 5K display. For just posting on the web at 1500pix on the long end, I doubt that the noise reduction process would make much of a difference, if any.
You make your own luck with preparation. The last few days I have spent the evenings at a local park studying this pair of urban bald eagles. Their nest on airport property, luckily this pond they have been 'sharing' with an osprey, they have been fishing out of here. Today this eagle came by in the morning and we had missed it's dive for its brunch, but this evening, we were able to capture its attempt. I was testing out an A9ii that I just received otherwise this would have been shot with the A1, the A9ii is no slouch haha
This is more demonstration than anything else. This morning I was shooting Eastern Bluebirds at a local place. Started processing the images and noticed this one and about 100 others in the same composition all had some doubling or ghosting in the branch to the left of the bird. Usually this is a sign of atmospheric heat haze but strangely the bird is tack sharp. Normally when I see this the bird appears with the same effect and the images are trash.
with a longer lens, considering the more limited cropping ability of the 24MP sensor of the R3 
