-= Canon EOS R7 owners unite! Post photos and discuss.

Levina de Ruijter wrote in post #19402074
The 400/5.6L is a great lens for swallows. I've shot most of my swallows with it but I was always much closer to them than 75-100 yards. So much so that I sometimes brought my 300/4L. Is there no way you can get closer? Surely there is way to find out where they nest, so you can position yourself nearby. That would make shooting them much easier for you. And then you could use your 400/5.6L or your 100-400II which are much better lenses for shooting these little bullets.

Zoom lenses are something to get used to. I always shot with primes. The 100-500 is my first zoom lens and it's taken me quite a bit of time to get used to it or rather to remember that it actually CAN zoom at all. But today it proved very useful with the swallows. Still, they're hard birds to shoot, that's for sure.

I set up on a dam on the side of the pond, it is about 200 yards wide and 300 yards long. It is all private property except for the dam. Here are a couple of the swallows, I think they are barn swallows but may be tree swallows. I have about 10 more out of 400 to process

1st is the cropped one and then the original

in the air

A couple more, again with the 2x TC.

Optiq wrote in post #19401981
Wow, this thread is blowing up this forum!

While it's great to see this level of excitment and intrigue (and infighting too!) over this new model, it's generating an incredible, probably record setting number of new posts. I checked here less than 24 hours ago and read everything only to find when I checked in just now 82 new posts in this thread!

That number can be reduced by about 1/3 if people would only start using the MQ button instead of creating back to back, individual posts every time. MQ stands for multi-quote. Yes, it's a tiny bit more work while compiling your reply but it would make for a cleaner and easier to read forum experience. In this 82 posts for 20 hour period, I counted at least 10 occasions where there were 2 or even 3 back to back posts from the same person. The MQ feature would allow for the same thing with LESS posts and would be MORE organized and easier to follow.

Watch, now there'll be a couple of dozen posts scolding me for moderating!

No. this is what happens when a major manufacturer only releases one or two cameras of significance per year. It was inevitable. It is a product of the times. Same as always though. Except there's only one to talk about and everybody wants to talk. It is what it is. And it is exactly what most of us would have predicted it would be given the circumstances.

Dave63401 wrote in post #19402065
A couple images from this morning. Trying the R7 with the RF100-500.

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That lens looks GREAT at f/9.

mcoren wrote in post #19402004
I know right? I check it once or twice during the day when I'm at work and there are 30-50 new posts!

mcoren wrote in post #19402006
I've wondered what that was. Thanks for the info!

mcoren wrote in post #19402008
Not me.

Hey, wait a minute ... I know who this is! This is my old friend Richard!! Richard Cranium! I was wondering where you've been!!

PinholeR5 wrote in post #19402103
A couple more, again with the 2x TC.

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Ok. Well. That is impressive detail.
Do much processing and sharpening?

Still waiting for user review of R7 BIF performance with a 1.4x and either the ef 100-400ii or rf 100-500...

out of camera jpeg, reduced to 1600 for upload, and a 100% crop of same image to show detail available.

IMHO, looking on screen, 100% it's not bad, but it does begin to look push to far,. viewing the same image in PSCS with the navigation slider set down a bump to 66% it looks really good.

Levina de Ruijter wrote in post #19402040
I saw you mentioning shooting swallows with your 600/11. That will be extremely difficult. These are fast, erratic flying birds and the FOV on a 600mm is way too narrow. I understand the idea behind it, but it doesn't work well. I too started out, 10, 11 years ago with longer focal lengths, with my 400/5.6L and the 1.4xTC. That didn't work well. What I have learned over the years is that shooting them from up close with shorter glass is much more effective. So for years I used the bare 400mm. Or my 300/4L even.

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Yes I found the same thing with swallows and sand martins, the one thing that might help is if you are on a cliff of high point in a strong wind, as they circle around into the wind their ground speed drops. Opportunities to try this out are rare for me.

Osprey juveniles

JayLT wrote in post #19401915
I've shot props with e-shutter as well, and it's easy to see the distortion, the slight bend and the fact that the prop blurs are no longer equal distances from each other is the main culprit

In addition to curling prop blades the other thing that really irks me with rolling shutter is when the prop blades stop being equally spaced around the compass, ie 4 bladed props not each being at 90 degrees to each other, 3 blade props not being at 120 degrees.

I would be interested to to see handheld shots with the R7 and 100-500 in overcast conditions or early/late in the day. Most stuff so far is with very good light, high shutter speeds and lowish ISOs.

How good is the IS on static subjects etc.

Lester Wareham wrote in post #19402184
I would be interested to to see handheld shots with the R7 and 100-500 in overcast conditions or early/late in the day. Most stuff so far is with very good light, high shutter speeds and lowish ISOs.

How good is the IS on static subjects etc.

Not exactly what you are asking for, but,,,,ISO8000 on overcast day with sun still behind trees.1/1600 F7.1 500mm Hand held . Heron was starting to take-off.