Dave, that was something though that Grizzly was really sizing you up until he/she decided that the salmon was an easier and tastier treat. You were shooting my favorite combo and obtaining incredibly sharp results wide open. Care to share your PP workflow? Really awesome images and I hope your experience was equally great.
A couple of additional Monarchs from today. Updated the firmware to 1.1.1. Haven't noticed any difference at all. I'm still trying to figure out how to make the eye tracking more sticky. Overall tracking is great, the best of any Canon camera I've owned and I have had nearly every body except the 1dxiii. Tonight, I nailed some ducks in lower light - boring, huh - on a blast off at some distance against some dark trees. The a7riv might have caught it, though at the Tv they all would have been blurry, the a9 would have nailed it but importantly so did the R5. On the a9, the images could never have sustained the cropping but on the R5, they look great...
Ray Still wrote:
So the saddest image I have taken with the R5 so far our sun at straight up noontime today 35 miles north of Seattle at our house the smoke is nasty, nasty
Stay safe up there, keep your eyes peeled and watch for arsonists (been reading some accounts mostly from Oregon, about that). Keep your bugout bag at the ready in case you need to evacuate. Hopefully, some wet weather will head your way soon.
arm, I don't have any issues with stickiness, it locks on to a killdeer in flight and does not let go until the bird gets to far away or disappears from site...
arm, I don't have any issues with stickiness, it locks on to a killdeer in flight and does not let go until the bird gets to far away or disappears from site...
In AED, I find the square frequently jumps off the eye to other parts of the subject for objects > 40-50 yards. Regular tracking at distance it seems to follow the subject fine as I mentioned for larger slower birds such as geese, ducks, gbh, hawks, etc. I’m still working on smaller subjects like swallows, swifts, etc. and will have to hit the shore to see how it tracks eagles, osprey, etc. Any owls in flight, your collection is stunning.
armd wrote:
Dave, that was something though that Grizzly was really sizing you up until he/she decided that the salmon was an easier and tastier treat. You were shooting my favorite combo and obtaining incredibly sharp results wide open. Care to share your PP workflow? Really awesome images and I hope your experience was equally great.
Thanks, and yes the experience we had following this bear along this beautiful but rugged river is one I will never forget for the rest of my life.
Photographically or other wise, this entire trip was simply outstanding. Everything worked out perfectly and the weather was perfect with only 1 full day of rain during our 2 week visit. Not counting the rain over in Whittier however. it always rains there from my understanding so that was a given.
I also love the R5 + 500II combo and I'm constantly shaking my head in disbelief every time I upload my images and see them on the big screen. I still have my share of oof image mainly caused by user error but the R5's AED AF is stunning to say the least. I did have a heck of a time climbing up and down the mountain side and over boulders while hand carrying this large lens plus a 35lb pack on my back though. Kinda wish I was 20 years younger doing this kind of stuff. I'm patiently waiting for that 4lb 12 inch long RF 500 to be released someday.
As for PP workflow, I just do the basics in LR then if needed, I'll toss them over into Topaz Denoise and/or into PS to sharpen then export as jpeg.
This was the biggest problem I had using the 500 in Alaska. I couldn't fit the entire grizzly in the frame.
Bummer.
Few questions for anyone willing to answer (Rob Amy)
1. Can you tell me about the "crop" mode in this camera? How does it work?
2. What is needed for this camera to work with the EF lenses? Thanks...
3. What 3rd party software is available to open and work the Raw files?
4. How does it work with flashes (on/off camera)?
Methodical wrote:
Excellent set. Were you really close or are these deep crops afforded by the 45mps?
Thanks!
In the above posted single image, yes I was that close shooting my naked 500mm on the R5. There were moments where there was less than 10 feet between us. They were so focused on catching salmon, they ignore everything around them including humans. Well, so long as you don't make any sudden moves or get too close to their cubs. Then bad things would happen.
In my image heavy post, I think those were all shot at 700mm using a 1.4x TC. Some were cropped more than others but I don't think any of them were real heavy crops iirc. But yes, that 45mp sensor does come in handy for reach limited situations.
- Correction - The first few images down to the one where the bear was standing on the boulder were all shot at 500mm. After that image, everything was shot at 700mm.
lighthound wrote:
Thanks, and yes the experience we had following this bear along this beautiful but rugged river is one I will never forget for the rest of my life.
Photographically or other wise, this entire trip was simply outstanding. Everything worked out perfectly and the weather was perfect with only 1 full day of rain during our 2 week visit. Not counting the rain over in Whittier however. it always rains there from my understanding so that was a given.
I also love the R5 + 500II combo and I'm constantly shaking my head in disbelief every time I upload my images and see them on the big screen. I still have my share of oof image mainly caused by user error but the R5's AED AF is stunning to say the least. I did have a heck of a time climbing up and down the mountain side and over boulders while hand carrying this large lens plus a 35lb pack on my back though. Kinda wish I was 20 years younger doing this kind of stuff. I'm patiently waiting for that 4lb 12 inch long RF 500 to be released someday.
As for PP workflow, I just do the basics in LR then if needed, I'll toss them over into Topaz Denoise and/or into PS to sharpen then export as jpeg.
This was the biggest problem I had using the 500 in Alaska. I couldn't fit the entire grizzly in the frame.
Bummer.
So sweet and coming back to Canon, I am astounded at how much less PP I need to do to my RAW images out of the R5 compared to my Sony images. Yes, I am waiting for the 4 lb RF 500 though I hope that I can afford it. The 500 IS II is such a sweet (and relatively affordable) lens. With the 1.4x TC as you demonstrated it is wonderfully sharp and doesn't take much of an AF hit. The Monarch butterflies were shot with that combo as I was walking looking for water fowl. Although it is tough carrying additional gear, but a 100-400 on a second body is the fix for those situations when the 500 is just too long.
Glad you had such a perfect trip and would love to hear about the particulars and your recommendations. I'm not getting any younger and hauling gear is getting all the more difficult so if I don't start soon it will never happen. I hope to make Homer for some eagles in March. Keep those great images coming and thanks.
armd wrote:
So sweet and coming back to Canon, I am astounded at how much less PP I need to do to my RAW images out of the R5 compared to my Sony images. Yes, I am waiting for the 4 lb RF 500 though I hope that I can afford it. The 500 IS II is such a sweet (and relatively affordable) lens. With the 1.4x TC as you demonstrated it is wonderfully sharp and doesn't take much of an AF hit. The Monarch butterflies were shot with that combo as I was walking looking for water fowl. Although it is tough carrying additional gear, but a 100-400 on a second body is the fix for those situations when the 500 is just too long.
Glad you had such a perfect trip and would love to hear about the particulars and your recommendations. I'm not getting any younger and hauling gear is getting all the more difficult so if I don't start soon it will never happen. I hope to make Homer for some eagles in March. Keep those great images coming and thanks. ...Show more →
DO NOT even bother with Homer for eagles unless March is the time they gather there.
We drove down there specifically for the eagles and there were only 2 eagles there. One was on a damn cell tower looking thing thus not click worthy at all and the other one was down on the north side off the spit setting on a boulder. I got a few shots of him but he launched away from me so I didn't even get any BIF action with him.
That was the one and only major disappointment we had on this trip. Everyone had told me to go to Homer for the eagles, so I planned on doing some 4k/120 clips of them fishing, but as it turns out, according to all the locals we talked to, the only reason there used to be a ton of eagles there was because some old lady was feeding them. The wildlife people banned this practice several years ago due to the possibility of spreading disease and killing them all off but they allowed this one old lady to keep doing it knowing that she wouldn't be around much longer. She passed away some time back and the eagles do not flock there like they used to. She was grandfathered in so to speak from what we were told.
Methodical wrote:
Few questions for anyone willing to answer (Rob Amy)
1. Can you tell me about the "crop" mode in this camera? How does it work?
2. What is needed for this camera to work with the EF lenses? Thanks...
3. What 3rd party software is available to open and work the Raw files?
Thanks...
Well, I'm not Rob but I guess I qualify as "anyone"?
1) What's to know? It is ~17 MP and supposedly the read rate is a bit faster compared to FF. For me, storage is cheap and I never know when I want to crop or frequently need other information to clone, etc. so I don't mind shooting FF. Also, it is easier for me to keep the subject in the frame, when following BIF so I prefer to use FF and crop later. Still it is good to have when one is limited with storage or other circumstances come into play. It is set up in page 1 of the camera menu and right now, the only way to toggle it requires use of the C1, C2, etc. modes unlike my Sony's where I can assign that feature a button which cycles between crop and FF. There was a discussion on Crop mode, here: https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1662550
2) An EF to RF adapter. There are 3 primary Canon varieties (plain $, one with a control ring $$, and one with a drop in filter $$$) as well as a handful of knockoffs. I don't recommend the 3rd party ones when the plain adapter runs under $100. Incidentally, the adapter works great with every lens that I've tested to date from a 16-35 up to a 600 prime.
3) Right now it's DPP or ACR (LR/PS). I am sure that DxO, Capture 1, PR, Luminar, PSP, etc. will all eventually update.
