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 Fighting eagles - Steller's sea-eagle and white-tailed | |
I recently bought the 5DsR as a \"combo\" camera - much of my shooting is landscapes so the 50MP allow the big prints I favour. With the pixel density of the 7D2-ish, I hoped it would double as a birding camera - not the best one, but adequate in a combo The slow RAW buffer write and poorer high ISO were known limitations but I think I am reasonably happy with the outcome. I was prepared as these two went at it in Rausu, Hokkaido, recently (more of the trip in the link below). The light was lower than the day before so I was shooting at 1/1000 and ISO 1600 so perhaps a bit faster might have been better (when viewing at 100% - not quite as good as here). The white-tailed eagle has the Steller\'s sea-eagle by its bill and is about to slam its head to the ground before letting go - the fight was about 3 seconds at ~5 fps with a Canon 5DsR and 100-400v2 with 1.4xV3 at ~200 mm and f/11 for DoF. I had decided to shoot jpegs for the action series, mainly of eagles swooping in to pluck fish from the sea. The frame here is cropped a bit (I had widened the FoV to keep them in the frame as they thrashed aroud) but is about 30MP.
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