Sony ILCE-1 + FE 400mm F2.8 GM OSS • f/2.8, 1/3,200 s, ISO 250.
Earlier this week, while helping a neighbor and friend with her A1 camera (exposure dial was sitting at an angle very loosely and seemed a bit damaged) the Cooper's Hawk was visiting again the water dish. It was lingering for at least an hour and a half at or in its "bath tub" or in the Juniper Tree/Bush next to it, preening its feathers. In these 90 minutes I had shot intermittently with my A1 about 6,000 frames and filled up both of my 160 GB - Sony CEA-G160T 160GB CFexpress Type A Memory Card (CEAG160T) - memory cards for a total of 320 GB.
On average each compressed raw file was about 55 MB in size.
So 55*6000/1000 = 330 GB,
in line with the total storage capacity of my 2 memory cards.
But how many of those 90 minutes could I actually document with images shot at 30 FPS.
So that's 6000/(30*60) = 3 minutes and 20 seconds coverage of the 90 minute elapse time.
In other words, for about 86 minutes and 40 seconds of those 90 minutes elapse time the A1 wasn't shooting images - provided my math is correct. Enough of this.
As one can see from the image above, the Hawk is standing on its right foot, its left foot tucked away in its feathers. This becomes a bit clearer from a short video animation I made from a few of m1 A1 images.
Something not a bird from yesterday. I haven't used my A1s for birds for a while, probably not until the bald eagles season starts at Conowingo later this month. I will be shooting foliage this month mostly, some trips will involve tough hiking. I am grateful Sony didn't make the A1 with a built-in grip.
Keeping with my non BIF theme, and once again irrationally shooting manual focus on the Worlds best auto focusing camera.
My Wife and I walked through a Bomber car show held at a park down the street I struggle shooting car shows because of the difficult lighting, and busy backgrounds they so often present. I managed to avoid those issues with this hood ornament shot.
