The birds they mock me
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DibblyDobbler said:
Vintage Racer said:
Great shots Mike.......love the Kingfisher! 
Thanks mate 
I must admit despite the results I was struggling a bit with my toy camera (RX10iii) as it kind of falls apart beyond about iso400 and my shutter speeds were getting ridiculously low (eg 1/50th for the kingfisher!). There was a guy next to me with a 'real' camera blazing away at iso5000 and xx frames per second at what sounded like about 1/1000th and I was getting a tiny bit jealous... will contemplate various options and probably do nothing
How do you get the birds to stay still enough to use 1/50th and retain that level of feather detail?
Would the MkiV be a useful upgrade from an ISO perspective?
ETA.
I downloaded some sample files for the Mk IV and tried a few things in post processing.
Interesting in that at, for example, ISO4000 the perceived results seemed to vary a lot depending subject matter, shutter speed and, possibly, focal length. There seemed to be some sweet spots and some not quite so sweet spots.when pixel peeping.
Edited by LongQ on Thursday 19th December 12:23
LongQ said:
1/50th?
How do you get the birds to stay still enough to use 1/50th and retain that level of feather detail?
A little bit of perseverance and a lot of luck How do you get the birds to stay still enough to use 1/50th and retain that level of feather detail?
LongQ said:
Would the MkiV be a useful upgrade from an ISO perspective?
I believe the MkIV focuses a bit better but is otherwise about the same? Not 100% sure though - will look intoLongQ said:
I downloaded some sample files for the Mk IV and tried a few things in post processing.
Interesting in that at, for example, ISO4000 the perceived results seemed to vary a lot depending subject matter, shutter speed and, possibly, focal length. There seemed to be some sweet spots and some not quite so sweet spots.when pixel peeping.
Interesting, thanks... I think pixel peeping is the problem actually, I just need to crank up the iso a bit further and not look too closely Interesting in that at, for example, ISO4000 the perceived results seemed to vary a lot depending subject matter, shutter speed and, possibly, focal length. There seemed to be some sweet spots and some not quite so sweet spots.when pixel peeping.
DibblyDobbler said:
LongQ said:
I downloaded some sample files for the Mk IV and tried a few things in post processing.
Interesting in that at, for example, ISO4000 the perceived results seemed to vary a lot depending subject matter, shutter speed and, possibly, focal length. There seemed to be some sweet spots and some not quite so sweet spots.when pixel peeping.
Interesting, thanks... I think pixel peeping is the problem actually, I just need to crank up the iso a bit further and not look too closely Interesting in that at, for example, ISO4000 the perceived results seemed to vary a lot depending subject matter, shutter speed and, possibly, focal length. There seemed to be some sweet spots and some not quite so sweet spots.when pixel peeping.
For broader subjects like Landscapes one can get away with ignoring details or, alternatively, go to full "art, dharling" mode.
Incoming Sparrow....
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Tyre Tread said:
Little owl?Thanks for your comments everyone.........here's another one
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