Very nice Hoodies Rob! I see you're switching up lenses while shooting those guys.
Are you using a blind to get close to these skittish birds? I can't seem to get closer than 100 yards from them.
lighthound wrote:
Very nice Hoodies Rob! I see you're switching up lenses while shooting those guys. Are you using a blind to get close to these skittish birds? I can't seem to get closer than 100 yards from them.
Thanks. I do not use a blind. I am only getting close due to the time of year due to the ice pockets with open water. They usually swim to the furthest point of the open ice. Sometimes they do fly away. If they do not fly then I use sit low and wait them out. They usually will not care I am there after about an hour. When the they come close the silent shutter is so nice so it does not scare them. If this was fully open water I would need a kayak and even then it would be tough.
Tomgt40 wrote:
For some reason I can't see any of Warren L's images and the links aren't working for me. Where is the oil showing up, on his images?
Thank you
His first image is of a blank grey (wall?, sky?) and shows the oil spots everywhere...if you look closely or throw some dehaze onto it there are a lot more. Do you not see that photo and the following gymnastic sequence?
I wasn't able to get his link to work for the oil image (only the zip with the gymnastic ones). Here is his jpeg with some dehaze to make it more obvious. He reports this is the top left corner, exact same spot the 1DXII collected most of the oil splatter.
arbitrage wrote:
His first image is of a blank grey (wall?, sky?) and shows the oil spots everywhere...if you look closely or throw some dehaze onto it there are a lot more. Do you not see that photo and the following gymnastic sequence?
I wasn't able to get his link to work for the oil image (only the zip with the gymnastic ones). Here is his jpeg with some dehaze to make it more obvious. He reports this is the top left corner, exact same spot the 1DXII collected most of the oil splatter.
Thank you, I couldn't see any of the images, nor open the links. That doesn't look good, disappointing.
I had a few spots in the top left corner of my camera after about 5000 shots. I didn’t take a first shot to see if there were oil spots. Appears to be identical to my 1DX2 oil splatter issues. Only visible with small apertures.
Pushing my 400mm f.8 a bit with using two 2x III extenders getting 1600mm. I used live view handheld. Amazing the detail it was able to get. I am impressed. This was out of a series it tracked very well.
arbitrage wrote:
His first image is of a blank grey (wall?, sky?) and shows the oil spots everywhere...if you look closely or throw some dehaze onto it there are a lot more. Do you not see that photo and the following gymnastic sequence?
I wasn't able to get his link to work for the oil image (only the zip with the gymnastic ones). Here is his jpeg with some dehaze to make it more obvious. He reports this is the top left corner, exact same spot the 1DXII collected most of the oil splatter.
I wonder why Canon doesn't use a solid type of lubricant?
mogul wrote:
I wonder why Canon doesn't use a solid type of lubricant?
Probably because it would make the problem even worse. As bad as the droplets of oil can be, at least surface tension tries to hold it onto mechanical components and together with itself in the form of droplets. With dry lubricant, there would be absolutely nothing stopping it from continuously breaking down into ever finer dust and that dust would get EVERYWHERE.
I messed up. I switched the camera to manual mode from Custom 1. When I did it reverted back to the shooting of jpegs. So basically i got soaked and frozen for some fairly poor jpegs, but I was able to use the camera. Both turkey photos are cropped, and are ISO 12800 and 8000. I did nothing but import them into lightroom, crop them and export at a lower quality.
The deer photos are uncropped and both are ISO 20000. Nothing done except import and export.
Fortunately none of the 400 or so photos are keepers. I was fairly unimpressed with the OVF AF, but this is really my first time using the camera and I already erred on the file format. More to come hopefully.
