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Great set, but I really like the tricolors watching the Osprey.

We generally get a large number of Barn  swallows for a couple of weeks in the late Spring.  Then I see occasional ones later.  We will have the Tree swallows in fairly large numbers for much ...

It helps when they all tend to fly over the same route multiple times and you know where they will start the run. Of course, you don't see all the times I failed to get a focus lock or failed to ...

The turns are difficult, because the bird stops moving, but you are still panning.  Also the bird changes distance as it turns and the camera cannot predict direction, so unfocused images are more ...

I was lucky to find the Barn Swallows feeding over a small pond at my local wildlife refuge. Wikipedia states that feeding Barn Swallows fly at 11 m/s to 20 m/s or about 1.4 to 2.5 meters between ...

I was lucky to find the Barn Swallows feeding over a small pond at my local wildlife refuge. Wikipedia states that feeding Barn Swallows fly at 11 m/s to 20 m/s or about 1.4 to 2.5 meters between ...

Agree, gulls, pelicans, & turkey vultures are good. While a 300-400mm lens will make BIFs easier and can be okay with larger closer birds. if you are photographing small birds like  swallows then ...

With things like HiResolution and good stabilization, sensor size becomes less important for things that don't move.  If you compare DXO sensor measurements for the E-M1.2 and the APS sensors, ...

I use my left eye and keep my right eye open whether using the viewfinder or the dot sight.  I only attend to the left eye image.  The only time I use my right eye is when I use a camera with the ...

After reading this thread, I photographed a small flycatcher at different shutter speeds with my 420mm lens on a 2X crop camera (840mm FF equivalent field of view) hand held.  The flycatcher was ...

Well done.  Pretty birds, great shots.

I agree completely with Nikon Nature about practice with slower, bigger birds.  The only things I have found harder to photograph than swallows are bats, hummingbirds in actual flight (not eating) ...

I find swallows easiest to photograph with a sky background.  If not, then easier with a more distant background and better if your camera has an electronic focus limiter which allows you to set ...

If you are serious about photographing moving targets, then an E-M1.1 or E-M1.2 will be far superior. I have used my E-M10.1 with the 300mm f4 with and without the MC14 and found it to have very ...

I like the viewfinder directly over the lens.  It makes it easier for me to precisely point the camera toward a fast moving target when using long telephoto lenses.

The difference in jpegs in the E-M1.1/E-M1.2 and the E-M10.1(I have all three) is largely a function of the different default settings of the cameras (I assume the same is true of the E-M10.2). Sho ...

Cropping an image is the same as using a crop sensor.  If you crop it to APS equivalent, then you have an APS equivalent sensor and may have fewer pixels.  If you crop it to mFTs equivalent you ...

Olympus cameras in the USA are repaired by Precision Camera (CT.) or US Imaging Systems (NJ).  At least Precision repairs many makes of cameras and I see no reason why they would care about gray ...

I do not have either the Canon 100-400 IS II (I assume you are referring to the newer sharper version of the Canon) or the Panasonic 100-400. However, if you are comparing them, then you would ...

For birding, the X-T2 will not save you much weight compared to the D500. The X-T2 needs the power booster grip. The other limitation of the X-T2 is that the longest focal length lens is the ...