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  1. Farnboro John

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    I think you'll find a huge difference in your output at once. The EF100-400 Mk II is a fine lens (and was my initial combination with the R7) but having the RF lens designed for use with the RF range cameras is the business. John
  2. Farnboro John

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    FWIW my latest strap - a Tycke with underarm strap - broke at the usual place, the hole where the swivel is attached, yesterday. The camera/lens combo was saved as usual by the strap from the camera strap attachment round the fabric strap that runs over shoulder. I've ordered a Black Rapid...
  3. Farnboro John

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    Yes it does. Don't do it. Edit: Having said that, shoulder strap plates or their swivel connections have been known to fail, so I usually run a strap from the camera body strap attachment to a karabiner round the fabric of the shoulder strap as a back-up. John
  4. Farnboro John

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    Some recent local pix (Moor Green Lakes) with the R7 + 100-500 in not necessarily ideal light. John Greylag Goose Goosander Bittern
  5. Farnboro John

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    Classic British understatement! :ROFLMAO: Nice to see it being deployed by our transatlantic cousins, perhaps there is hope for the new country after all. John
  6. Farnboro John

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    Some Brent Geese and Starlings at Cut Bridge in Hampshire the other week (one of my first essays with the R7 and the 100-500 instead of my old 100-400 Mk II) - nice conditions and some decent results, I think. John
  7. Farnboro John

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    So do I! John
  8. Farnboro John

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    Hmmm.... I hear what you say and will try to make time to test it when I'm not doing anything important. Certainly I'm impressed with the detail drawn out on the Lanc shots because I know how hard it can be to get anything but black underneath that aircraft! TYVM John
  9. Farnboro John

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    I hear what you say, but what exposure measuring area are you using to set the exposure in the first place? If it's averaged across the entire frame, you will end up with a silhouette against the sky that you need to correct in PP or a dark image overall as you revert to below the horizon. If...
  10. Farnboro John

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    I find all this very interesting. I'm now using the R7 with 100-500RF and my two dials are set up top dial shutter speed, front dial exposure compensation (because I often go immediately from perched bird below the horizon to flying bird/aircraft above it, on which I want some positive exposure...
  11. Farnboro John

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    I'm absolutely with Barred Wobbler on this. I shot jpeg for several years after going digital and once I tried RAW I never looked back. Both control and rescue are solid arguments for doing it. I also don't have Lightroom, I just use the free Canon Digital Photo Professional and then do some...
  12. Farnboro John

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    If you click on them and enlarge them then look at the registration on the rear fuselage (A6-APC or whatever) you should definitely see the more recent one is sharper. Even my old eyes can. :) Cheers John
  13. Farnboro John

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    New toy arrived the other day, so my R7 now also has a 100-500RF on the front. I took it to Staines Moor for Short-eared Owls and widebodies. I caught the same Qatari flight going out in the same light as with the 100-400EF plus adaptor a week or two earlier so both are here for comparison. I...
  14. Farnboro John

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    That first one is a belter. Having tried to do such things without the benefit of an R7 in the past I'd have to say the equipment improvement is obvious. John
  15. Farnboro John

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    So am I, see "From Dusk till Dawn" (illustrated) in the Vacational Trips section. John
  16. Farnboro John

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    Right. Some fox photos from last night. Repeat: NOT for the delicate. I'll put in some notes against each. One general point is that normally I deal with flash eyes, which are caused by the presence of a reflective layer, the "tapetum lucidum", behind the retina that allows animals to use light...
  17. Farnboro John

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    Tried the R7 on the foxes last night, seems fine, bearing in mind they are at close range. I'll put a couple up later but they may not be for the squeamish - Smudge has lost a fight and an eye. Next I need to go and try in the field, night safari style, but that will have to wait a day or so...
  18. Farnboro John

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    Yep, you have it, focus is the issue, and for doing wildlife at night autofocus is kind of critical (I've enough to do with finding framing and shooting, tbh: plus the animals don't always keep still!) Here are some from Western Sahara in 2019 (seems an age ago now....) they include the African...
  19. Farnboro John

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    I'm talking about taking night pictures where flash is vital. With a red torch I can see perfectly with an optical viewfinder but the EVF fails utterly to show a picture with the same illumination. In Finland last year I had to give up on the R7 in low light, luckily I had a 7dii with me as a...
  20. Farnboro John

    R7 for bird photography and birds in flight

    I've had one since the launch and use it almost all the time in preference to my old 7Dii, which however remains supreme in the dark (and I do mean the dark, the EVF seems to just give up in very low light and not display anything at all). I don't use electronic mode, so no rolling shutter...
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