Thanks that answers my question and helps me a lot with my purchase decision. I think the majority, maybe all of those are good. Hummer wings are sometimes hard to tell what is motion blur and what is distortion and you always get some weird looking positions. But these are certainly not showing any of the crazy distortion you get on other MILCs in ES.
Canon 100-500mm appears to be shipping by the end of this month now!
arbitrage wrote:
Thanks that answers my question and helps me a lot with my purchase decision. I think the majority, maybe all of those are good. Hummer wings are sometimes hard to tell what is motion blur and what is distortion and you always get some weird looking positions. But these are certainly not showing any of the crazy distortion you get on other MILCs in ES.
Oh wow, no. I will say that I have shot at least a thousand frames of hummers in ES so far (as I said, I'm bored) and none of them looked that weird. I went thru all my hummers and these are the craziest wings that I could find, and I have no idea what's anatomically correct and what's not, but that's the craziest shit there was in ~1000 frames.
stanj wrote:
Oh wow, no. I will say that I have shot at least a thousand frames of hummers in ES so far (as I said, I'm bored) and none of them looked that weird. I went thru all my hummers and these are the craziest wings that I could find, and I have no idea what's anatomically correct and what's not, but that's the craziest shit there was in ~1000 frames.
Thanks for those. Yeah that is more typical of distortion I see. It really is a hit or miss affair as it depends on how large the bird is in the frame and if it is moving up or down at all. Also catching the wings in the fastest position (like mid-stroke) usually shows distortion like these three frames.
The shots where you see two total sets of wings is when the bird moves up or down rapidly and gets scanned twice
Here are a few new shots that I've taken with the Tamron 70-200 G2. The lens focuses fine with my Viltrox adapter. IS is lens-only and does not work in tandem with the IBIS. I've made some custom X-Rite profiles which are helping as well:
ketang wrote:
Here are a few new shots that I've taken with the Tamron 70-200 G2. The lens focuses fine with my Viltrox adapter. IS is lens-only and does not work in tandem with the IBIS. I've made some custom X-Rite profiles which are helping as well:
I am liking some of the shadow detail in those golden hour shots. You can really see the details in the bark of a number of those shots. Did you lift the shadows at all on these shots and do you have the EXIF details? Interested to understand if these were shot on tripod at low ISO or if they were handheld at higher ISO to keep the shutter speeds reasonable.
Hathaway wrote:
I am liking some of the shadow detail in those golden hour shots. You can really see the details in the bark of a number of those shots. Did you lift the shadows at all on these shots and do you have the EXIF details? Interested to understand if these were shot on tripod at low ISO or if they were handheld at higher ISO to keep the shutter speeds reasonable.
Thanks for posting. Bob
Thank you so much. I believe the original files have EXIF but there may not be a way to see that when I embed them. In any case, the golden hour shots were all taken at ISO 100-125 while the first two at dusk were ISO 640 and ISO 3200. I do lift the shadows, but usually not with the shadows slider in ACR/Lightroom as it paints too broad a brush. I prefer to keep that slider at 0 or even a negative value and instead adjust the tone curve and use radial filters with a luminance range restriction to bring up only the darkest shadows. I would usually use a tripod for these, but I was just walking around with the lens. The Tamron G2 is is good for several stops so I didn't have any issues with the shutter speeds of 1/50-1/60.
A few images from a local pond with my R5 last weekend. Being a 1DX3 user my concerns were the blackout and lag in the EVF, compared to the 1DX3 and the AF, how responsive and how accurate to achieve critical focus on BIFs in the high speed modes. After 2600 images I am starting to get use to the handling of the R5, which I find a little small but should be improved when the grip arrives for it. I was using a EF 500mm F4 II, and found the AF very fast but not as fast as the 1DX3. I was using animal AF and was surprised how it found the birds eyes when visible, or the head and body. For the perched and water birds the 45MP really shows excellent detail. I decided to shoot some swallows even though the light was poor resulting in ISO between 2500 - 6400, to achieve a fast enough shutter speed. I am beginning to think the R5 will be a great companion for the 1DX3 for bird shooting, in certain conditions, only time will tell. As to battery life, I have it set to be the most economical batteries. One day I put in an old 5D2 battery and it achieved 679 shots and 15min of 4k video.
Steve Richards wrote:
A few images from a local pond with my R5 last weekend. Being a 1DX3 user my concerns were the blackout and lag in the EVF, compared to the 1DX3 and the AF, how responsive and how accurate to achieve critical focus on BIFs in the high speed modes. After 2600 images I am starting to get use to the handling of the R5, which I find a little small but should be improved when the grip arrives for it. I was using a EF 500mm F4 II, and found the AF very fast but not as fast as the 1DX3. I was using animal AF and was surprised how it found the birds eyes when visible, or the head and body. For the perched and water birds the 45MP really shows excellent detail. I decided to shoot some swallows even though the light was poor resulting in ISO between 2500 - 6400, to achieve a fast enough shutter speed. I am beginning to think the R5 will be a great companion for the 1DX3 for bird shooting, in certain conditions, only time will tell. As to battery life, I have it set to be the most economical batteries. One day I put in an old 5D2 battery and it achieved 679 shots and 15min of 4k video....Show more →
Steve Richards wrote:
A few images from a local pond with my R5 last weekend. Being a 1DX3 user my concerns were the blackout and lag in the EVF, compared to the 1DX3 and the AF, how responsive and how accurate to achieve critical focus on BIFs in the high speed modes. After 2600 images I am starting to get use to the handling of the R5, which I find a little small but should be improved when the grip arrives for it. I was using a EF 500mm F4 II, and found the AF very fast but not as fast as the 1DX3. I was using animal AF and was surprised how it found the birds eyes when visible, or the head and body. For the perched and water birds the 45MP really shows excellent detail. I decided to shoot some swallows even though the light was poor resulting in ISO between 2500 - 6400, to achieve a fast enough shutter speed. I am beginning to think the R5 will be a great companion for the 1DX3 for bird shooting, in certain conditions, only time will tell. As to battery life, I have it set to be the most economical batteries. One day I put in an old 5D2 battery and it achieved 679 shots and 15min of 4k video....Show more →
Superb!! Thanks for sharing these and your initial thoughts compared to the 1DXIII.
Hathaway wrote:
Those macros shots are awesome! Were these single shots? Amazing details.
Thank you for posting. Bob
Thank you! Yes these were separate shots. I had bad light and wanted to keep the ISO down so I used a tripod and shot single frames using ES @ about 1/4 to .3 sec. With the IBIS I might have been able to hand hold but didn't want to take the chance of messing them up as I've never seen one of these Luna Moths before.
. thanks
