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  1. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    Out of curiosity and partly for a bit of daftness, I decided, in the pursuit of science, to dig my old Canon 400mm/F5.6 prime out of the cupboard for only the third time in 9 years to see how it got on with the R7. Canon says in the R7 specs that it's not supported by the camera, but I knew from...
  2. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    I'm not saying that the 200-800 is no good for flying birds, just that it's hard to track them with the R7 crop body and all that reach. These were some of the shots I took with the 200-800 in the first few days I had the lens back in the dark days of the beginning of February. I found that at...
  3. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    I tend not to use the 1.4 converter, especially for flying stuff, but I did for this Osprey last September. When I'm using the converter it's usually to make close objects bigger, rather than distant objects closer. It spends most of its life in my pocket or, more often, at home. I was...
  4. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    Black Kites from 1st May
  5. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    R7+RF100-500, 3 May.
  6. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    R7 + RF100-500, 30th April.
  7. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    R7 + RF 100-500 last Thursday.
  8. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    R7+ RF100-500. A solar-powered Ibis
  9. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    South of 25 quid on Amazon, enough to do the 100-500, plus the 200-800.
  10. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    How does it cope with the zoom extension?
  11. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    When I bought my 100-500 in April 2021, I don't think there were any lens coats available off the shelf - the lens was just too new. Since then, there are several manufacturers making them, but I still rely on the solution I found three years ago. On YouTube, there's a bloke called Ron Bulefeld...
  12. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    Canary Islands Chaffinches and Tenerife Blue Chaffinches last month (R7 plus RF 100-500)
  13. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    Some portraits from this morning.
  14. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    Nice. You've got me puzzled a bit with the reference to a 20m focus limiter, though. Have I missed something on mine?
  15. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    Well done with the starlings. Small and quick stuff isn't easy, especially on the approach. It makes a focus system really work hard.
  16. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    Another shot in dull conditions with the R7, taken this autumn on a particularly dull and wet morning after heavy overnight rain and a north-east wind, 28th October. A song thrush sheltering in a hedge, probably after arriving from the other side of the North Sea overnight (Denmark is the next...
  17. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    The middle shot is uncropped, which is an extreme rarity for me. I was able to do it because the bird was very confiding and used to my presence. The others are cropped. The first chiffchaff was cropped from 6984 pixels wide to 3929 wide, which is 56% on the side, giving 31% of the area of the...
  18. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    I particularly like this one.
  19. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    R7 photos in low light with high ISOs. 55° 15'N on the last day of October. ISO 5000, 4000 and 8000 They'll do me.
  20. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    A few RIAT shots with the R5. The Lancaster shots were both taken with the same settings, whether flying or on the ground between bodies. 1/640 second, F10, ISO 400, but looking at the blades, I should have gone slower on the shutter, Maybe 1/250 with ISO 160. The Italian display was at 1/4000...
  21. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    Whether you use spot, centre-weighted, evaluative or whatever, the old rule of thumb is to direct the camera light metre to an area that would appear mid-grey in tone in a monochrome image and that equates to the area of the frame covered by your chosen measuring area. A patch of grass is often...
  22. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    I too might be in situations of moving from perched to flying birds, or often (on migration) flying raptors that might be against a hillside one moment and the sky a moment later. It's important that they are correctly exposed - I can't stand shots of a silhouette of a bird against a blank sky...
  23. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    Although I have both, I don't think I can comment on the detail of the AF system comparisons, other than to point you at Duade Paton's comments on the R7. This camera can frustratingly lose focus for a frame or two in the middle of a burst, before regaining the eye for the following shots. He...
  24. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    This is what I do with my R7. On my R5 I have my dials set for shutter speed, ISO and aperture, because I almost always shoot full manual. I just don't agree with people who say they are shooting in manual when they are using Auto ISO. It's Auto, just as much as Tv or Av are. Since I use my R5...
  25. Barred Wobbler

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    In most situations, jpeg is perfectly adequate, but in challenging conditions, or when a subject has been wrongly exposed, the RAW option gives much more control and you can recover detail that just doesn't exist in the jpeg, being lost in shadows or highlights. This was brought home to me when...
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