PetKal wrote:
Well, the AF drive on 400 f/5.6 is plenty fast...as long as light is good.
On targets which are not in the best of light, 300 f/4 IS (and non-IS) have a distinct advantage over 400 f/5.6 because they allow faster camera focusing. Servo AF is even more dependent on good target light than One Shot AF. That's what gives large aperture lenses an advantage, although they might not be as fast in moving their focusing group back and forth. 85L is the prime example of that.
BTW, was that you David waiting this morning for some geese to take off in order to BIF them ? (Shot with 100-400 on lake Ontario shore.)
Either way, too bad the photographer was looking straight into the early afternoon sun.
BTW, was that you David waiting this morning for some geese to take off in order to BIF them ? (Shot with 100-400 on lake Ontario shore.)
Either way, too bad the photographer was looking straight into the early afternoon sun.
Nope, I'm still in Ottawa. The goose was shot at a pond, not even a very big pond never mind a Great Lake.
This guy/gal/gull (PetKal, can you s%x this gull?) was actually flying by overhead, not just hovering above me in a stiff breeze. Not super challenging, but I like how it turned out. Yes, 100-400.
When an Albino and an anti-Albino squirrel mate, do they annihilate in a flash of energy and produce a host of short-lived exotic squirrel particles?
Squarks.
PetKal wrote:
Tommy, we have some of them grey ones too. (Don't ask about the lens, it ain't 100-400) )
Kent, Ohio, has a population of black squirrels, much like yours. In fact, I read that they were brought in from Canada by a man by the name of Larry Wooddell in 1961. Ours are brown/gray and that is typical for the US.
Some very good shots shown, and it appears that most folks/lens users are well aware of the lens AF speed limitations.
A couple of shots from today again (not going to start diggin' out the old stuff, I promise ). A couple of observations. The lens is not easy to use on pijuns and head-on flight ducks. Both the pijun and the duck were not really power flying but more coasting down at much reduced speed when I finally managed to get them in focus.
