Birds with EM5 Mark II and Panasonic 100-300mm

Very satisfied with this combo!

All photos handheld

Antonio

larsbc wrote:

Did you add any background blurring in post processing?

No, only reduce noise to subject with Capture one Pro 9 ( with ORF files i like Capture One Pro 9 )

Thanks

Antonio

Really like your composition!

Great shots.

Best

Chi Pham wrote:

Really like your composition!

Great shots.

Best

Thanks!

Very nice ,I love doing birds myself. well done

Nice shots and interesting because the weakest shot there is the Great Tit.  I take a lot of Blue Tits and Great Tits and my success rate with Blue Tits is much better than Great Tits.  Totally illogical but true.

Pete Berry wrote:

The feather/eye detail is hard to beat, with what looks like perfect focus, with a lens that has the rap of softness at 300mm, at ISO 800 no less! Congratulations on a great set!

Did you use electronic shutter and IBIS? And being handheld, I assume AF rather than MF.

With my 100-300, and the lens' not great OIS, I have to keep SS above 1/500 handheld at 300mm, but age has taken a toll on my steadiness. I've had poor results with the elect. shutter on my GH4/100-300 except when locked down.

It looks like the new Oly body has given new legs to an old lens!

Pete

Thanks

Yes, i used IBIS and electronic shutter and AF

I have also one photo at 1/10sec at 300mm (600mm equivalent), soon i add the photo here

Antonio

I just love small birds and especially taken at their eye level. The 2nd shot is a great composition and all shots are very well taken. Nice details in all of them and wonderfully sharp feathering at the larger views.

All the best Antonio, keep them coming.

Danny.

nzmacro wrote:

I just love small birds and especially taken at their eye level. The 2nd shot is a great composition and all shots are very well taken. Nice details in all of them and wonderfully sharp feathering at the larger views.

All the best Antonio, keep them coming.

Danny.

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Antonio

If Pana 100-300mm can do these in the hands of a skillful photographer, imagine what the coming Pana 100-400mmm will be able to do, being much sharper wide open @f5.6 than 100-300mm stopped down to 6.3.

Not speaking about 400mm availability.

Can't wait for the Panasonic 100-400mm!

My dear Savings Account, will you forgive me that huge withdrawal?

Great photos! I'm thinking of the EM5 Mk II, as a replacement for my Panasonic GF1, to pair with my Panasonic 100-300mm lens. You have convinced me that good results are possible hand held.

I also use the Sigma 150-600mm lens on my Canon 60D for bird photos but a tripod is essential and it's too heavy and cumbersome to carry everywhere.

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David

Great pics Antonio. Are there any problems associated with using Panasonic lenses, with lens stabilisation, on the EM5 2, which has in-body stabilisation? If so, what do you do?

Pete 123 wrote:

Great pics Antonio. Are there any problems associated with using Panasonic lenses, with lens stabilisation, on the EM5 2, which has in-body stabilisation? If so, what do you do?

Thanks

i use only IBIS of E5 Mark II and i disable the stabilisation of lens

Antonio

What a great set of photos. Props to Hasherd for reviving this thread, and other commenters that kept it alive long enough for me to notice

Thanks Antonio. I'll be purchasing my Panasonic soon. 😎