FZ50 BIFs

Wonderful captures, and very useful info. Thanks for posting!

Wow! Just another great set Trevor, excellent color, detail and subject separation in these..masterfully done..Bill ~
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Thanks to everyone who commented, I was quite pleased with these but I think the last one was one of my best ever.
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Great concentration Trevor,

1. 2 and #3 are my favorites, especially #2 is a killer.

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and enviable Bifs If I don't mind saying so. I find these very hard to capture, and to capture with this kind of detail and comp. is impressive! I like them all, but I have to say my picks are 2 & the last one. The last is an impressive comp. and background colors enhance an already great image. Well done!

Robin-Lee

Beautiful shots, Trevor - not usually a 'bird guy', but I really enjoyed these....thanks
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The FZ50 can not combine all shutter speeds with all aperture values. I was quite disappointed when I found this out in practice, and was able to confirm it in the manual.
On my film SLRs you could set aperture and shutter speed independently.

My typical usecases were:

A Mode: open aperture as much a possible for nice portrait DOF, let camera control shutter speed (on my Nikon F90 up to 1/4000)

translated to FZ50:

in A mode it allows me to open the aperture (e.g. f/2.8), but then it will only adjust shutter speed up to (down to) 1/1000. It will not go to 1/2000 with f/2.8 but instead issue a red warning that proper exposure is not possible. So portraits under sunny sky with long end of zoom, f3.7 and shutter speeds faster than 1/1000 are not possible!!!

I was quite surprised when discovering this behaviour (I don't think it is even mentioned in the camera's review on this site), but when looking into the manual I found that you have to close the aperture down to f/5.6 (I think, I don't have the manual at hand, it could even be further) to be able to use shutter speeds faster than 1/1000.

So this makes the 1/2000 shutter speed pretty useless in this case, as you would need it with open apertures of course!

In S mode it works the other way round: if you set up to 1/1000 the FZ50 will be able to make use of all apertures. If you go beyond that (1/1300 or faster) the camera has to choose apertures closer than f/5.6 (or maybe even more as mentioned before it is given in the manual).

And as the FZ50 has the habit that when you halfpress the shutter button to set the aperture actually on the lens so that you can see it in the EVF, this will lead to your viewfinder getting very dark, if 1/1300 f/5.6 (or more) is not a suitable exposure combination for the available light.

I think this limitation exists also in M Mode.

Conclusion: shutter speeds beyond 1/1000 need to be used very carefully

that 2nd last one looks exactly like where the harrier jumpjet designers got their inspiration from

and agree that last one is a pearler...have been trying to get gulls for ages and nothing even remotely this close!

thanks also for the focus tips you use...i will try them for sure

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