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Re: [Theme] Show Birds
« Reply #510 on: March 07, 2018, 23:50:36 »
Armando, excellent, unusual angle.
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Re: [Theme] Show Birds
« Reply #511 on: March 08, 2018, 02:03:15 »
Armando, excellent, unusual angle.
Thanks Anthony

From this trip, after the astrophotography I was surprised I have processed 36 images , from 2 days where I all I had to do was eat sleep and take photographs?
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Re: [Theme] Show Birds
« Reply #512 on: March 09, 2018, 15:16:46 »
Excellent shot and thank you Armando.

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Re: [Theme] Show Birds
« Reply #513 on: March 09, 2018, 16:41:55 »
Blue !
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Re: [Theme] Show Birds
« Reply #514 on: March 10, 2018, 00:00:59 »
Blue !

He (?) looks rather happy!  Well captured, as well as your previous duet!
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Re: [Theme] Show Birds
« Reply #515 on: March 10, 2018, 02:10:53 »
He (?) looks rather happy!  Well captured, as well as your previous duet!
Thanks Akira, I beleive males have colorful beak, like the one in the duet , if so this is a female. This year their feet had very vibrant tones, a sign of a healthy specimen, or so the guide said
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Re: [Theme] Show Birds
« Reply #516 on: March 13, 2018, 17:31:12 »
I have processed 36 images , from 2 days where I all I had to do was eat sleep and take photographs?

But did you manage to get some good R&R, quality time with family or friends etc?
May have boosted your creative juices

If not, then there are trips where I planned to take lots of pictures of wildlife and either didn't find many or the ratio of keepers wasn't as high as I hoped....

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Re: [Theme] Show Birds
« Reply #517 on: March 13, 2018, 18:44:24 »
But did you manage to get some good R&R, quality time with family or friends etc?
Yes I did
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Re: [Theme] Show Birds
« Reply #518 on: March 19, 2018, 01:47:40 »
Some pelicans with the old 400mm P.C Auto
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Re: Show Birds
« Reply #519 on: March 19, 2018, 09:21:32 »
"Got more than I bargained for ..." or "Bird in Paradise"

A perfect sharpness !

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Re: [Theme] Show Birds
« Reply #520 on: March 23, 2018, 08:40:46 »
Stork billed Kingfisher going flat out.
another almost nailed with D500 , 300 2.8vr w/t1.4
There was a White Bellied Sea Eagle around to I had been trying the TC 2E III but it was just too slow to AF for these shots so when the Eagle departed the area I dropped to the TC1.4 to try for Kingfishers and did get many images of various value.  Interesting that the TC2 was faster on the D750.  Did not quite nail it but as I told Jim Gould the other day, I've not been shooting birds for a while.
Tom Hardin, Goa, India

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Re: [Theme] Show Birds
« Reply #521 on: March 23, 2018, 10:45:56 »
Tom, that is a stunning capture.
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Re: [Theme] Show Birds
« Reply #522 on: March 23, 2018, 11:10:34 »
Stork billed Kingfisher going flat out.
another almost nailed with D500 , 300 2.8vr w/t1.4
There was a White Bellied Sea Eagle around to I had been trying the TC 2E III but it was just too slow to AF for these shots so when the Eagle departed the area I dropped to the TC1.4 to try for Kingfishers and did get many images of various value.  Interesting that the TC2 was faster on the D750.  Did not quite nail it but as I told Jim Gould the other day, I've not been shooting birds for a while.


There is a hack for making the Camera do auto focus at 'normal speed' as if there was no TC attached, when using the  TC-20E


You disconnect the last contact connection on the TC-20E contact block. Either with a piece of tape, desoldering or cutting the contact plate off.
When looking at the front of the TC the rightmost contact.

The Reason for the slow focus is to make the accuracy better, but if your willing to sacrifice this, it would be worth a test.


I found out about this tinkering with TC-XXE as an 'glass less' extension tube,,,


http://nikongear.net/revival/index.php/topic,4544.msg71260.html#msg71260
Edit to add:


https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/42602800
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Re: [Theme] Show Birds
« Reply #523 on: March 23, 2018, 11:22:09 »
Thanks Anthony, that one is just quick PP.  I've worked on some others from this morning and ran this one through some more PP  ;)   Just a bit OTT  :)
Erik, now that is something I did not know.   I rarely use the TC2EIII and only on the 300 2.8 but worth a try.  It worked very fast on D3S, very good on D750, good on D610 but hated the D7100.
Tom Hardin, Goa, India

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Re: [Theme] Show Birds
« Reply #524 on: March 23, 2018, 11:25:34 »
Try it out with tape first, it should work well with primes and the Pro bodies


BTW, Brilliant image!
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