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I am happy it works for you. With Lightroom cost was not the issue for me. Apart from making very bad use of screen estate Lightroom is easily the most intrusive (windows) software I have ever ...

Sorry for the delay... busy. For stationary birds I use sequential antishock L, continuous autofocus, focus priority (very important), small focus point in the middle (using magnify to place it). ...

Only a couple of more posts and this thread will be dead and buried.

You're quite a drama queen.

Actually no. The November rumor did not mention South Korea.

As everybody seems to have guessed, #1 is indeed Topaz. Opening the ORF in Topaz looked all wrong and I did not want to spend much time fussing about,  so I applied auto focus sharpening on the cro ...

I am hoping the 100-400mm will meet my requirements...

Thanks! It's my impression also, that I have not managed to focus on the mothers beak. However it is a massive crop, so there may just not be enough lens resolution and pixels to show feather details.

Have a go. I've uploaded the raw file P5062625.ORF here: My public onedrive directory

Thanks!

Thank you for your input. I agree that less time spent in post is better (for me). Both sharpening methods take less than 3 minutes in post processing. Workspace is free, Topaz is below my pain ...

Thanks for your input. This being my first owls nest, it may possibly be the once-in-a-lifetime chance I had ;-) My excuse for the massive crop is that there were restrictions imposed by the ...

Thanks for your input. You are correct in your observation about bumping the sharpness ceiling. One of the images is sharpened using Workspace sharpening cranked up to 2 (max), the other is ...

answered here https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/63963595

Quote from the article: "Now… imagine what a “real” camera could do given the same hand-held, high-speed image stacking technology. That’s what we’re really waiting for." That would be hand-held ...

I've been playing around with the sharpening tools from Topaz an Workspace. Which do you prefer? OOC cropped candidate #1 candidate #2

An eStore like that can keep a couple of people busy and easily cost a million a year to run.

Sorry for the delay, here's the uncropped image:

Thanks! Very convincing demonstration. I downloaded the free trail.

the leaves behind her are pretty sharp. I'm a bit baffled why I'm missing focus.