The light lens day continued…
So surprise surprise neither the RF 600 f/11 or the EF 400 f/5.6L are as good as the EF 500 f/4L but on days like yesterday sometimes it’s great to not worry about heavy lenses and dodgy shoulders.
Actually I used the big lens this afternoon and the camera/lens started shuddering and making loud noises and an error message appeared in the viewfinder. Hopefully just a case of cleaning the contacts….
400mm seems awfully short after being used to 500mm for the last 10 years…
But it is a lot easier carrying around.
I tried some Scoter BIFs…
Topaz DeNoise rescued these.
Some more shots from the Canon RF 600 f/11.
Struggling a bit with it: the slowish AF and high ISO are a pixel peeper’s nightmare. Small low resolution shots like this are not so bad.
BIFs are hard, at least they’re hard for me.
A soft but interesting enough shot.
A lot of noise reduction and sharpening going on here. Again, at such low resolution and when looked at on a phone they are passable.
It was raining all the way home…we stopped at a few spots.
The AF is a bit hit and miss and yes the images a tad soft…
But I don’t think I would have been able to get these shots with my 500 f/4 as I wouldn’t have been able o swing it round and focus in time.
So a great value walkaround lens for a very good price (yes I know mine is only on loan).
It was a bright sunny afternoon….
The lens is taking a bit of getting used to, still not 100% comfortable with getting the right exposure sometimes. A lot of soft shots but a few hits.
And lo-rez pics like this are presentable.
Apart from this one spot today there were not many photo opps. Only 2 eagles around (both White-taileds) in the whole day. Not much else either. No small birds (apart from Dusky Thrush) around anywhere so far in 2023.
How the hell do they digest these? It must hurt coming out of whatever end it comes out of…
Lots of Black Scoter around today.
Always one of the most photogenic birds of winter…
There were 2 females and 1 male in this particular spot…
A lot of snow this winter…
It’s difficult to walk around Hakodate and even on the coast where we were today the walkways in the ports are piled high with snow and unpassable.
Fortunately some birds came close in one of the ports…like this Red-throated Diver.
I won’t get as close as this for a while…
