Sigma 150-600mm f5-6.3 Contemporary on the M system

MAC wrote:

Larry Rexley wrote:

Here are more images from the evening of my shoots in the first post, where I wasn't using the teleconverter, just the bare lens on the M6ii.

They are cropped, however not downsized ---- this is what pixel resolution looks like with the M6ii. For many of the ISO 320 and 400 shots I did not use DeepPrime, rather the default setting for High Quality de-noise --- which gave lovely results with nice texture and detail.

Pixel peeping at the full res images on my large 4k monitor, I see how incredibly shallow the depth of field is with this lens at close distances. Many more shots were slightly mis-focused, on a part of the bird's body but not quite the eye --- and they were not usable, just didn't have that sharpness that helps make the image pop.

The sandpipers in the first 5 images are tiny birds, just a few inches across, but I was close to them, within 20 feet or so. The lens makes them look like giants! With this lens I found that using the M6ii's 1-point AF (the larger single point) worked very well --- it would snap right to focus as long as I pointed it in the right place on the bird before shooting. The ability to use your thumb to move the focus point while using the EVF is such a useful feature!

Nice compo and shot!

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks. I give a lot of credit to Duane Paton's excellent wildlife photography videos which i found a month ago. Watching them took me to the next level.

Using his tips I shot just before sunset from the bird's eye level, in great lighting using good equipment and following his advice on camera settings. Sure enough like magic many more of my images look really good!

I have never heard him mention Canon M, but he shoots with Canon R, the 90D, and even a 40D at times. He has several specifically targeted to the Siggy 150-600 C lens.

This is one of my favorite videos of his, but so many of his are great.

https://youtu.be/prj-oUyuOm0