August 30

shades of red

red hair festival Tilburg

Zf    z 50mm f/1.8s

A local orange-crowned warbler (Leiothlypis celata)

Lovely photographs, Øivind.

Now stop teasing us; what did you buy?

I am assuming here that this is a F-mount lens on an adapter and a Z-Mount body?

If so, the combination seems to be working well in your hands.

I have always found getting good shots of small birds to be challenging.

A local orange-crowned warbler (Leiothlypis celata) posed for a couple of seconds in the brush allowing assessment of bird focus with the 500mm PF on a new body.    
(Crop to about 64% of the frame.)
 
Frontal view also worked in spite of being partly obscured by leaves.

Since Daniel is probably still on vacation in Croatia, this little impression from southern Germany will suffice.

This looks rather Switzerland...

Are you sure his willingness to pose results from the excitement of the new gear rather than the food he gets

The Nikkor 500mm f/5.6 is a very nice lens, though. With or without squirrels.

Thanks, no human-sourced feeding occurred.   the willingness was all about the nice cached cones he was peeling. (Feeding wildlife beyond what results from bird feeding is illegal in Alaska.)
While the 500PF for sure is a nice lens, I have had it for quite a wile now, so the test was not specific to that lens.