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I can't remember the species, but it lives in trees and it's commonly used as a trained bird of prey.
There is no exif data with this picture cos the camera is a secret
All I can tell you is that the picture was shot at f/5, 1/250th, ISO 100 and the 'equivalent' focal length is 504mm. It's also the full frame. And it's not a DSLR...
What cracking detail , Ian. Now you have got us guessing ? Obviously a new camera about which you are not allowed to divulge any information yet. It sounds like one of the pro-sumer cameras with about 10 or 12 x zoom. New Panasonic ??
What cracking detail , Ian. Now you have got us guessing ? Obviously a new camera about which you are not allowed to divulge any information yet. It sounds like one of the pro-sumer cameras with about 10 or 12 x zoom. New Panasonic ??
Yup - it's clearly a super-zoom type of camera, but beyond that I can't really say
Hope you don't keep us waiting to long. Being a bird man I find the detail stunning. Looking at the head in particular the reflection in the beak and the eye is super.
Wouldn't like you to give anything away but just how long do we have to wait.
Here again I don't expect a comment but maybe the new Samsung
Hope you don't keep us waiting to long. Being a bird man I find the detail stunning. Looking at the head in particular the reflection in the beak and the eye is super.
Wouldn't like you to give anything away but just how long do we have to wait.
Here again I don't expect a comment but maybe the new Samsung
Pops, its difficult to deny its a nice sharp photo. Surely though its no better than you could do in your own garden, given the opportunity.
Don't forget Ian would have been photographing the bird on a perch, it was going nowhere. These birds do not move quickly like many of the garden birds you photograph, so it would have been possible to take time over the shot. Also you don't know how close Ian was to the bird, though the focal length suggests less than ten times magnification. You have almost 13x magnification and so should be able to pull it in even closer from the same distance. Now I'm only guessing here as I'm not sure what 504mm relates to in terms of magnification with the camera.
Its also more than likely that it comes from a camera that, not only tends to over process the image, and whose Raw option is less than practical, but also gives poor results in low light, or when you have to boost the ISO. I'd think personally you are far better off with your camera set up
Looks like it may be a Harris Hawk Ian? But they are from America, not Africa?
The only critique I could really offer is to brighten up the eye a little.
Interesting focal length for a non dslr, when is this new camera coming out then Ian?
without wishing to hijack the thread, a freind of mine was talking about getting an slr, however, she is more of a pointy shooty, so I have advised against it, and am currently sterring her toward something more like a Canon Powershot, with 8mega pixels and 12imes optical.......should she wait?
I can't remember the species, but it lives in trees and it's commonly used as a trained bird of prey.
There is no exif data with this picture cos the camera is a secret
All I can tell you is that the picture was shot at f/5, 1/250th, ISO 100 and the 'equivalent' focal length is 504mm. It's also the full frame. And it's not a DSLR...
Ian
I took this picture of a Harris Hawk last Saturday, and as has been pointed out they are from America, more specifically Mexico.
At least this is what the owner told me.
I can't remember the species, but it lives in trees and it's commonly used as a trained bird of prey.
There is no exif data with this picture cos the camera is a secret
All I can tell you is that the picture was shot at f/5, 1/250th, ISO 100 and the 'equivalent' focal length is 504mm. It's also the full frame. And it's not a DSLR...
Ian
Mmmm, the image is 4:3 format so, wild guess, how about a new Olympus bridge camera using the same chip as their DSLRs??
Pops, its difficult to deny its a nice sharp photo. Surely though its no better than you could do in your own garden, given the opportunity.
Don't forget Ian would have been photographing the bird on a perch, it was going nowhere. These birds do not move quickly like many of the garden birds you photograph, so it would have been possible to take time over the shot. Also you don't know how close Ian was to the bird, though the focal length suggests less than ten times magnification. You have almost 13x magnification and so should be able to pull it in even closer from the same distance. Now I'm only guessing here as I'm not sure what 504mm relates to in terms of magnification with the camera.
Its also more than likely that it comes from a camera that, not only tends to over process the image, and whose Raw option is less than practical, but also gives poor results in low light, or when you have to boost the ISO. I'd think personally you are far better off with your camera set up
From memory, I was 7-10 feet from the hawk and on my knees to get the angle (he was on a ground perch).
This camera is a small sensor superzoom and, OK, it's only ISO 100, but the lens performance looks top notch and it's not easy to get a steady shot like this hand holding a 500mm lens - even at 1/250th, even more so without the mass and handling advantages of a physically large lens - so obviously it's stabilised.
Pops, its difficult to deny its a nice sharp photo. Surely though its no better than you could do in your own garden, given the opportunity.
Don't forget Ian would have been photographing the bird on a perch, it was going nowhere. These birds do not move quickly like many of the garden birds you photograph, so it would have been possible to take time over the shot. Also you don't know how close Ian was to the bird, though the focal length suggests less than ten times magnification. You have almost 13x magnification and so should be able to pull it in even closer from the same distance. Now I'm only guessing here as I'm not sure what 504mm relates to in terms of magnification with the camera.
Its also more than likely that it comes from a camera that, not only tends to over process the image, and whose Raw option is less than practical, but also gives poor results in low light, or when you have to boost the ISO. I'd think personally you are far better off with your camera set up
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