Recent content by Archibald

Those things are very hard to use. They need to be calibrated for the anticipated shooting distance on every outing. You don't get confirmation that focus has been achieved, or where the focus is. Some get great results with them though, so maybe worth a try.

My own experience is that my RF 100-500 L (cropped) outresolved the 800/11. The zoom also focuses much closer. There isn't a great weight difference between those lenses. Advantage: the zoom (except for price). I sold my 800/11.

Of course it is the lens that causes diffraction, not the sensor. There would certainly be diminishing returns with a high resolution sensor, but never a poorer resolution. In practice, we rarely see the effects of diffraction unless we are cropping hard. The effects are present, but not very...

This little brown blob is not caterpillar poo but a tree hopper.

Long-tailed Dance Fly. It has red eyes and feathery legs.

Nut weevil.

A vain red-winged blackbird admiring itself in a car mirror. It has been doing this for days, going from car to car. Unfortunately for the car owners, the bird leaves behind a lot of bird poop.

Great Blue Heron.

Pileated Woodpecker portrait.

Great colors, nice setting.

Hybotid Dance Fly, Genus Platypalpus. These are predatory flies.

Amazing stack considering it must have been moving.

I don't understand why you wouldn't shoot at ISO 100-200 if you are in the studio where you can control the lighting.

Thanks, agreed.

Female Cardinal.