arbitrage wrote:
I had my first R5 freeze today in a long, long time. All I did is wake the camera from sleep, put it to my eye, started to focus with Eye-AF on a hummingbird, EVF froze. I flipped out my LCD (which was turned in towards the camera) and the way I have the camera setup that automatically switched to the LCD and unfroze the camera. No idea what caused that freeze.
Interesting. Pretty similar scenario though I was using a 100-400 with a 1.4x. I waited a moment and when I was sure that the camera had written to the card, just shut it down. It paused for a bit and then shut off. Didn't try the LCD trick - that's a good one I'll have to try next time.
Yesterday was one of our highlights in photography. We photographed our first Bobcat, we have seen them but a quick far off glimpse. This was an amazing experience to watch and see this cat do its thing.
That’s a very healthy looking i.e. well-fed Bobcat!
RobAmy wrote:
Yesterday was one of our highlights in photography. We photographed our first Bobcat, we have seen them but a quick far off glimpse. This was an amazing experience to watch and see this cat do its thing.
bobbytan wrote:
That’s a very healthy looking i.e. well-fed Bobcat!
We thought it looked very healthy too. We seen it pounce 3 times but came up empty. It has a great area for hunting. Seen a few hawks there too. I awesome it has a few mice/moles in the area. Seen coyote prints also but no sighting. We first sighted it around 2:00 for a bit then went and slept/groomed in some brush a good distance away, sat in the car watching and finally around 4:30 it became active. It came close a couple times out of the brush but stayed mostly at a good distance in the fields and brush. 800mm and 45mp where very welcome.
RobAmy wrote:
We thought it looked very healthy too. We seen it pounce 3 times but came up empty. It has a great area for hunting. Seen a few hawks there too. I awesome it has a few mice/moles in the area. Seen coyote prints also but no sighting. We first sighted it around 2:00 for a bit then went and slept/groomed in some brush a good distance away, sat in the car watching and finally around 4:30 it became active. It came close a couple times out of the brush but stayed mostly at a good distance in the fields and brush. 800mm and 45mp where very welcome. ...Show more →
I've sighted and shot the Bobcat twice at a wildlife sanctuary in Southern California a few years ago, and they were not as afraid of people. But sadly, they have all disappeared. Here's a couple of shots with my (then) 5D II and EF 100-400L.
RobAmy wrote:
Yesterday was one of our highlights in photography. We photographed our first Bobcat, we have seen them but a quick far off glimpse. This was an amazing experience to watch and see this cat do its thing.
Sweet! Congrats on finding such a great subject.
I have yet to ever have the chance to click on one of these beautiful creatures.
Feel free to pm me the GPS coordinates. I'm desperate and willing to make the long drive.
Here's another shot with the Laowa 15mm shift - 11 image stitch. Same composition as the one I posted earlier, but taken about a half hour earlier. I like the soft light here.
Loving Rob&Amy's new found bobcat. Since you posted so many BB's, I thought that I would share one of my own from this weekend. They've finally returned to the frozen tundra and they were fighting off the robins for space in the stream...
R5 with Laowa 14mm f/4. I am a bit bummed. I had seen some reviews that showed this lens to have surprisingly good sharpness, even at the edges and corners, has low distortion, can even take filters, and it's super tiny and reasonably affordable. I also saw Bastian's review at Phillipreeve.net, which talked about the W shaped field of focus, but his was also tilted, which I figured may have been an outlier. Well, it definitely has a W shaped field of focus, and it is also is quite good at the edges and corners. If focused properly, even outstanding at the edges.
Problem is, when the edges are sharp, the center is sharp, but the midfield is dreadful. If you focus on the midfield, the edges are dreadful. As a result, it's near impossible to get a fully sharp image with the lens, and as such is essentially useless to me. I already have a manual focus Rokinon 14mm, which is pretty good optically, but has some wonky distortion (correctable with a profile), but it's so much larger, especially when you consider the adapter. Argh. So back it goes. It's SO tiny...but I can't keep a lens that can't produce sharp images in the middle of the frame.
That's a beautiful image. You can always focus-stack.
Bev
Jman13 wrote:
R5 with Laowa 14mm f/4. I am a bit bummed. I had seen some reviews that showed this lens to have surprisingly good sharpness, even at the edges and corners, has low distortion, can even take filters, and it's super tiny and reasonably affordable. I also saw Bastian's review at Phillipreeve.net, which talked about the W shaped field of focus, but his was also tilted, which I figured may have been an outlier. Well, it definitely has a W shaped field of focus, and it is also is quite good at the edges and corners. If focused properly, even outstanding at the edges.
Problem is, when the edges are sharp, the center is sharp, but the midfield is dreadful. If you focus on the midfield, the edges are dreadful. As a result, it's near impossible to get a fully sharp image with the lens, and as such is essentially useless to me. I already have a manual focus Rokinon 14mm, which is pretty good optically, but has some wonky distortion (correctable with a profile), but it's so much larger, especially when you consider the adapter. Argh. So back it goes. It's SO tiny...but I can't keep a lens that can't produce sharp images in the middle of the frame.
Thanks....but I don't think I should have to focus stack literally every image because portions of it within the focus plane are unsharp. I have a Samyang 14/2.8 that is sharp corner to corner, but was hoping for a smaller lens with less distortion, but not at the expense of reasonable image quality.
Cloudbow wrote:
That's a beautiful image. You can always focus-stack.
From a couple day ago, I was out photographing Bald Eagles at the Quincy, Il Lock and Dam and this American Kestrel gave me about 5 seconds before he flew to a different limb behind limbs. R5 800mm F11 Hand held.
