Small Mammals
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Actually it would be one great shot if the background (behind the Pica and the stone it stays) was less pronounced... But even like this it's one great looking Pica
!I hope my daughter is not going to see this cutie - otherwise she will search where she can buy a Pica for pet
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Thanks Click.
I switched cameras and took a few of the squirrels with the R5, 500 f/4 II, f/2500, f/4, ISO 320
It is funny to see them making themselves so much at home...yet, I have not seen them back there again.
I switched cameras and took a few of the squirrels with the R5, 500 f/4 II, f/2500, f/4, ISO 320
It is funny to see them making themselves so much at home...yet, I have not seen them back there again.
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BTW...I am playing around comparing the R5 to the R1. Before anyone gets too crazy about it all...they both take amazing pictures. I'll also say, while the marketing machine may tell us we need more, me staring at details of pictures taken with the two are more reinforcing the basics:
Good light > Good subject/pose >> Good Glass >>> Camera body
While I was hoping for the squirrels to be a good test case, the AF of both cameras actually struggled with gray squirrels on a gray tree trunk. Bouncing from eye to larger box. I moved over to spot AF. While the images are acceptably sharp to me, but perhaps not critically sharp enough for a good comparison. But, for those interested, here are two images exported as cropped (usually I export to 1500 pixels). I attempted to crop the same. Processed each individually.
R1
R5
500 f/4 II lens, 1/2500, f/4, ISO varied from 250 to 320.
Good light > Good subject/pose >> Good Glass >>> Camera body
While I was hoping for the squirrels to be a good test case, the AF of both cameras actually struggled with gray squirrels on a gray tree trunk. Bouncing from eye to larger box. I moved over to spot AF. While the images are acceptably sharp to me, but perhaps not critically sharp enough for a good comparison. But, for those interested, here are two images exported as cropped (usually I export to 1500 pixels). I attempted to crop the same. Processed each individually.
R1
R5
500 f/4 II lens, 1/2500, f/4, ISO varied from 250 to 320.
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Absolutely! Good modern camera is doing your life from easier to much easier but still it's not taking photos by itself! Good glass is always better: speed (aperture, AF speed + else)! And "Good light > Good subject/pose" - that never changed from the very beginning of the Photography: that's the basic!!! Now we have some tools to play even with the light but it's not exactly the same: compromises.... !
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Small sensors can make nice photos with today's software. This is a shot from 2020 that I just reprocessed. Nikon P1000 at 600mm equivalent and ISO100. LR enhance plus Topaz denoise and sharpen. 100% crop.
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