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Jeff WX1USN said:
Yes you can select from the roll I think but I prefer selecting and editing on my 27" monitors on the PC. What I am usually doing with a pre-capture is focusing on a bird on a branch or on the water and waiting for them to take off as I am not fact enough to anticipate the action.
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I don't think anybody is that fast, Jeff! With slow moving birds, sure. A heron taking off. Easy to do. But a fast songbird? Forget it.

I remember, two years or so ago I was watching a baby Blue tit about to leave the nest box. I'd been going there every morning for days, at sunrise, watching the parents flying in and out to feed it. And then one morning the little one is sitting in the opening of the nest, ready to leave. Its parents are across the path in a tree, calling to him. And I know he will go. I am at the ready, finger on the shutter. And then the little one suddenly takes off and I am too late. I had nothing. It's undoable. It's like with lightning bolt. I just spray and pray. Miss a lot, get lucky sometimes. You just can't time it. So yeah, the pre-capture mode is pretty awesome for those types of shots.
 
Here he is after he fledged. Also not the best of shots (very early and hardly any light)
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I am pretty sure the R5ii pre-capture will not be really any different from the R6ii's version, why I am even thinking about the R5ii is the 45mp, better AF (how much better?) the Eye AF will it work with BIF with a cluttered background, and less rolling shutter.
I heard that the button layout is very similar to the R6ii. Once it gets warm I will rent one for a week.
 
Jeff WX1USN said:
I am pretty sure the R5ii pre-capture will not be really any different from the R6ii's version, why I am even thinking about the R5ii is the 45mp, better AF (how much better?) the Eye AF will it work with BIF with a cluttered background, and less rolling shutter.
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It's cold here, just above freezing point. That's okay if it's clear and there is no wind. But today there was such a fierce wind and it's a killer! The older I get the less I can stand the cold. But if the wind will lie down a bit and it's sunny, I will go out and test all that. I tried shooting from home a bit this afternoon but even that was too cold. And I got that thing where you get mushy shots because of warm air from indoors meeting the cold air outside. It ruins your shots.

Jeff WX1USN said:
I heard that the button layout is very similar to the R6ii. Once it gets warm I will rent one for a week.
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It is. Except on top. The R5m2 has a small lcd screen, the mode dial is gone (you set it by pushing the MODE button and then turn a dial, any dial, not a biggie). And there is an extra button, a tiny one, next to the red button. With a cropping symbol and a lightbulb. I pushed it and the light came on in the little lcd screen. Yay. Here's a quick snapshot with my iPhone:
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Levina said:
It's cold here, just above freezing point. That's okay if it's clear and there is no wind. But today there was such a fierce wind and it's a killer! The older I get the less I can stand the cold. But if the wind will lie down a bit and it's sunny, I will go out and test all that. I tried shooting from home a bit this afternoon but even that was too cold. And I got that thing where you get mushy shots because of warm air from indoors meeting the cold air outside. It ruins your shots.
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it is 32F (0c) here with a 15 mph wind, too cold to open a window

All the shots posted here on this thread have been shot through my CLOSED window, through the glass. it is an Anderson double pane, double hung window, seems to do well as long as I am shooting pretty much straight through it, if I shoot at too much of an angle i.e. through too much glass it does an ok job. if there is any softness it is due to shooting through the glass but I try to be within a foot of the glass although some are closer to 2 feet from it. Yes an open window get too many heat waves and also causes the heat to come on too often. Even in the summer I will shoot through the glass, it is the only window in the house that gets cleaned, the rest haven't been cleaned in years LOL.
All the bird shots around my house or birdfeeders except for the hummingbirds are shot through the glass.
 
Jeff WX1USN said:
it is 32F (0c) here with a 15 mph wind, too cold to open a window

All the shots posted here on this thread have been shot through my CLOSED window, through the glass. it is an Anderson double pane, double hung window, seems to do well as long as I am shooting pretty much straight through it, if I shoot at too much of an angle i.e. through too much glass it does an ok job. if there is any softness it is due to shooting through the glass but I try to be within a foot of the glass although some are closer to 2 feet from it. Yes an open window get too many heat waves and also causes the heat to come on too often. Even in the summer I will shoot through the glass, it is the only window in the house that gets cleaned, the rest haven't been cleaned in years LOL.
All the bird shots around my house or birdfeeders except for the hummingbirds are shot through the glass.
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Yeah? I never shoot through closed windows.

Your shots look good though. I would never have guessed they were shot through glass. But I guess if the glass is clean (hah!) and you're shooting straight through it, it shouldn't affect image quality much if at all. It's just glass.
 
Jeff WX1USN said:
Cardinal shot with pre-capture and through my window glass!

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Yeah, looks good. And Cardinals are photogenic at any time, but especially in a white world.

But look at that snow. It's been ages since we had that much of it. 2012 I think it was, our last period of severe winter. And you have a Junco there too, at the bottom. I think it's a Junco anyway. Another tough bird that stays put?
 
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