Wild Birds of Europe

[Jan1977]

Wow...

Was wondering what the 2x could do, so mounted it and took it on a walk.

 

[sidknee]

Le frog!

And great shot, Sid!

Thanks Levina, I didn't see the catch she just turned up with it, landed on her usual chick and took off with both for a good chicken and frog nosh up!

 

[Jack Dawe]

Yellowhammer

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Was wondering what the 2x could do, so mounted it and took it on a walk.

How you managed to find a gull in flight @1600mm is beyond me. FOV is sooo small at that focal length! I can hardly do it @800mm!

 

[Jan1977]

How you managed to find a gull in flight @1600mm is beyond me. FOV is sooo small at that focal length! I can hardly do it @800mm!

And these are quite heavy crops as well...
Having the zoom of the 200-800 helps as you can get the gull in the frame and then try to zoom in more while the camera maintains the focus as good as possible. Also, going out with my camera and do some birding is a form of practice for me as well. Trying to react and find things in the viewfinder quickly. These were shots were I succeeded but it have been numerous times during the same outing, that I pointed the camera up and did not catch the bird I hoped for or that focus was too far off for the mirrorless system to identify the bird and AF correctly. (But blurry empty skies are not really show-worthy on photography forums ).
It is a form of practice in hand-eye coordination to look at something and then point the camera with a long lens in about the right position to get it in the frame. I certainly do not master it, but use birding in this respect as a nice form of training.

 

[pcs]

Impressive to get something in the frame at 1600mm! I find 800 more than difficult enough. Before the R5II I wouldn't have got this Meadow Pipit.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

And these are quite heavy crops as well...
Having the zoom of the 200-800 helps as you can get the gull in the frame and then try to zoom in more while the camera maintains the focus as good as possible. Also, going out with my camera and do some birding is a form of practice for me as well. Trying to react and find things in the viewfinder quickly. These were shots were I succeeded but it have been numerous times during the same outing, that I pointed the camera up and did not catch the bird I hoped for or that focus was too far off for the mirrorless system to identify the bird and AF correctly. (But blurry empty skies are not really show-worthy on photography forums ).
It is a form of practice in hand-eye coordination to look at something and then point the camera with a long lens in about the right position to get it in the frame. I certainly do not master it, but use birding in this respect as a nice form of training.

Oh right, of course, you shot with the 200-800! I was thinking of my attempts with the 800/11. It's funny, I'm still not used to zooming in and out on the fly (with the 100-500), having shot with primes like forever.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Before the R5II I wouldn't have got this Meadow Pipit.

Nice!

For me it was the R6m2. I had been trying for years to get shots of warblers in flight as they dart from reed to reed. First time I got good shots of them repeatedly was last summer with the R6m2. I expect no less from the R5m2 this summer! And better ones as I will have more pixels on the bird.

 

[Jack Dawe]

Lesser Grey Shrike - a rare bird for Britain that turned up locally some years ago

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

The Red-crested pochards have arrived. I saw them yesterday at the close of day in the dark deep below my window! I only ran them through DXO Pure Raw and cropped and resized them.