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First attempt at photographing birds with R, and a question about lenses

Started Jan 29, 2021 | Discussions thread
Alastair Norcross
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Same combo on M6II

MAC wrote:

good shots

I'd try the same lens combo on your m6ii

I did when I first got the M6II. It works quite well, but is definitely very heavy on that camera. That's one reason I'm interested in the Tamron 100-400, which is a lot lighter. The one time I tried the 70-200 + 2X on my M6II, the birds weren't cooperating. I got one short sequence of a bird a long way away, flying with something in its beak. This is more than a 100% crop (the crop was about 1800 pixels, and my web resizing actually upsized it):

At least I can make out the nut, or whatever it is, in the beak

I got closer to a bunch of geese, but they just wouldn't fly while I was pointing the camera at them. Here's one of them, toying with me:

I think it might be time for me to take off

If you keep pointing that camera at me, you might get some shots of me flying

Yes, I'm definitely in a flying mood

Any second now, I'll take off

I kept thinking that one was about to take off, but s/he never did. So I had to content myself with a cool reflection shot.

Hah! Sucker! I'm just going to sit here laughing at you holding that great heavy thing.

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