Very beautiful work. Nice to see someone who has the know how and skill give the 50D a fair break. While I am stuck in the studio taking pics of "things" I bought my 19 year son, who loves BIF stuff, a 50D and a 100-400 and he has been doing really well and loves his camera. I showed him your pics this morning and he said "Dad someday I hope to be 1/2 that talented, those are incredible". I concur on all counts, Thanks Garen.
Jan 06, 2009 at 01:02 PM
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Awesome collection Garen, excellent work Sir
Remarkable BIF shots and the detail on the ducks is sweet
Fav of the set has to be the female buffy w/clam.....magnificent shot Garen
Tim Kuhn wrote:
OOH Garen love this stuff. Great comparison!! Sure the 50d is not up the mklll but it does quite well.
Without going on with a bunch of blowhard crap () 5 has got to be my favorite shot. I love those females and they are indeed hard to capture. I had no idea they ate clams!!
Great shots and info to sit and chew on. Well thought out post, we need more of these from you talented guys with various toys
Tim
Hey Ant, dump the mkll. I would love that body for IFs.
This is a great display of two high quality cameras. Images produced by
these cameras are just stunning. But you're the one who knows how to
pull the best out of the cameras.
Hide
Thanks Hide, you are too kind and I'm glad you liked it.
GAREN wrote:
Thanks Brenton, with the same lens at 100-400 iso I believe 50D will give us noticeably more detail.
This is a crop of a full image at 7.1 see the amount of feather detail it is insane. It sure gives my 1DSMk2 run for her money. http://garenm.smugmug.com/photos/449879667_mtLpx-X3.jpg
Garen, the detail here is incredible. Thanks for providing this one!
mdbassman wrote:
Garen, These are outstanding images on both camera bodies. So this leads me to the question?? How much, if any, post processing was done to these images? The detail, sharpness and color is outstanding.
Dan
Thanks Dan, nothing out of ordinary, I used DPP to process the raw in to CS3 for posting, level, saturation, sharpening and web sizing that's all.
Although these are superb captures in composition, colour light etc, IMO many of these are very slightly OOF (black bird and a few others excepted) which I believe is the major problem with any of the xxD cameras in general. In AI servo they rarely nail focus spot on, the keeper rate is much lower than on the 1 series. My 40D can return impressive detail when it nails AF, too but it's not as frequent as I like for moving subjects.
50D was never going to have issues with detail although it's not that much better than the 40D at all and barely any improvement over the excellent 450D. It's the sheer number of pixels that makes it great for birding, you can crop a lot and still have a large number of pixels on your subject.
I'm not in any way implying Garen is not very talented so please don't take these comments the wrong way - it's just my impressions of Canon's non 1 series camera of which I've own(ed) 3. No camera is perfect but I find the keeper rate on my 1D II 30-50% higher than my other cameras in AI servo.
davenfl wrote:
Very beautiful work. Nice to see someone who has the know how and skill give the 50D a fair break. While I am stuck in the studio taking pics of "things" I bought my 19 year son, who loves BIF stuff, a 50D and a 100-400 and he has been doing really well and loves his camera. I showed him your pics this morning and he said "Dad someday I hope to be 1/2 that talented, those are incredible". I concur on all counts, Thanks Garen.
Thanks for viewing and your kind comments, I think 50D is a very capable and impressive camera, and I really don't think there is another camera out there at 1000 dollars that can do better.
super series Garen....both bodies are quite capable.
I found the 50D AF to be extremely good and AI servo tracked a burst of 15 with only 1 miss. Impressive for an XXD
It's really hard choosin' fav.s here...all too good brotha' ! 
?? How much, if any, post processing was done to these images? The detail, sharpness and color is outstanding.