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Bjarne Hemmingsen wrote in post #18586407
Wow...,I am speechless...., and seriously envious!

Come on Bjarne Hemmingsen lol... You guys are something.... Thanks but you guys world class... just sayin

Great tit

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sidknee wrote in post #18586442

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canada goose pair on our wild pond,
hoping they're going to breed here.

Be careful what you wish for!!!!

Gregsiem wrote in post #18586454
Be careful what you wish for!!!!

That sounds ominous, do you have some info that you would like to share with me? Do Canadians not like canada geese or summat?

Pondrader wrote in post #18586244
NO Sam.. I'm dead set against using a flash of any sort. And I absolutely hate the sun when it comes to wildlife and birds. Nothing will put more noise in my images than the sun. The light here is even lower on the horizon. I like to shoot manual but my broken front wheel makes it doubly hard to run that shutter. but I have to look at the darn viewfinder screen twice as much to see the meter. I use the meter and just to the situation as best as my brain can figure. Every image I shoot is just the 7DII, 100-400LII and me ...rarely a tripod. but I'm always on my knee's

I'm hoping to whisper up something cool this coming week... fingers crossed

Well, I'm in awe of your craft. Everything is just right in your shots.

sidknee wrote in post #18586464
That sounds ominous, do you have some info that you would like to share with me? Do Canadians not like canada geese or summat?

Nobody likes Canada geese when there are 100,000 of them.

sidknee wrote in post #18586464
That sounds ominous, do you have some info that you would like to share with me? Do Canadians not like canada geese or summat?

I am sure my fellow Canadians might elaborate. I will just say that they breed prolifically and the mess they leave turns beautiful lakeside grass to a mess of brown ...

They are out of control here too. And with climate change, the ones that typically fly through here on their way to wintering grounds in Cali are hanging around here more and more.

Archibald wrote in post #18586467
Nobody likes Canada geese when there are 100,000 of them.

There is only slightly more than that in the whole UK at the moment, dunno if that figure is growing alarmingly.

Gregsiem wrote in post #18586468
I am sure my fellow Canadians might elaborate. I will just say that they breed prolifically and the mess they leave turns beautiful lakeside grass to a mess of brown ...

I thought that might be the sort of thing you were alluding to. We don't mind a couple of geese but we don't have room for 100,000. The RSPB says "May be hunted in the wildfowling season and is protected at other times"

Northern Cardinal probably looking for Easter eggs...

Recently I adjusted the calibration in my cameras to all of my lenses and it got me to wondering about my old 5DmkII and so I put on my 400mm L f/2.8 lens on it, it sure is sharp. It's sharper than any of the other camera and lens combos that I have. The good news is that it didn't need any calibration.
The bad, it's VERY clunky and plus the 2.8 lens is VERY heavy!

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recrisp wrote in post #18586491
Northern Cardinal probably looking for Easter eggs...

Recently I adjusted the calibration in my cameras to all of my lenses and it got me to wondering about my old 5DmkII and so I put on my 400mm L f/2.8 lens on it, it sure is sharp. It's sharper than any of the other camera and lens combos that I have. The good news is that it didn't need any calibration.
The bad, it's VERY clunky and plus the 2.8 lens is VERY heavy!

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Thats one of the reasons I switched to m4/3 mirrorless, I have painfull hands so the weight even of my old nikon 300 f4 prime was too much to get consistant good results, and hurt too much.
I now have 600mm (35mm eqv fov) reach with my Oly m4/3 75-300 zoom.
A lot less pain to my hands.

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Pagman wrote in post #18586498
Thats one of the reasons I switched to m4/3 mirrorless, I have painfull hands so the weight even of my old nikon 300 f4 prime was too much to get consistant good results, and hurt too much.
I now have 600mm (35mm eqv fov) reach with my Oly m4/3 75-300 zoom.
A lot less pain to my hands.

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I definitely understand that! When I used my Canon 1DmkIV and my 400mm f/2.8 lens along with my 1.4 converter it all weighed 17lbs! I already had slight carpal tunnel, so a few years of hand-holding all of this and I had full-blown carpal tunnel! I'm much better now that I don't carry that thing around all day like I used to.

I was thinking of Pondrader when I nabbed this guy and wishing I was a whisperer and could get closer

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recrisp wrote in post #18586527
I definitely understand that! When I used my Canon 1DmkIV and my 400mm f/2.8 lens along with my 1.4 converter it all weighed 17lbs! I already had slight carpal tunnel, so a few years of hand-holding all of this and I had full-blown carpal tunnel! I'm much better now that I don't carry that thing around all day like I used to.

Yep I get yeah, I have arthritis that affects my hands and a few fingers and also dupuytrens on my left hand, this has caused loss of feeling in my two small fingers on my left hand.

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