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I Like Birds

Started 3 months ago | Photos thread
OP larryj Forum Pro • Posts: 13,086
Re: I Like Birds
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Tirpitz666 wrote:

Great shots! Shooting birds on a Foveon camera it's a challenge in the challenge of birding itself

Thanks tirpitz666 and birding is challenging with any camera.

I've just gotten a 100-400 to try out my luck at nature photography with the SD Quattro, which I know won't be easy, given the lens' narrow aperture at max focal lenght and Foveon sensor's low tolerance for high ISO shots, but I indeed like the challenge to try to get something remotely decent out of it

I tried shooting humming birds using the sd Quattro and the 100-400 mm lens.  I had no luck and a lot of out of focus and blurred shots, due to the black out between shots..  I swapped the lens to my wife's SD15 and got some reasonable images.  Here is one of them:

Good luck!

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