Recent content by LCPete

it depends on lens and also the camera body you use it with as Dale said the mk 3 1.4 and 2.0 extenders were optimised for the white primes and work best with those rather than slower zoom lenses I use my 1.4 and 2.0 all the time on my 300 F2.8 quality is excellent

I use DXO photolab it’s excellent but quite expensive but feel it’s worth it compared to the cost of my kit

bought my first RF lens today to go my my R5 , an STM 50 1.8 Didn’t actually have a 50 mm lens so I thought I may as well get the RF version Seems decent for a budget lens and its nice how close it can focus

I have just bought the 160Hz version of the 27 inch Asus Pro Art and its spot on colours look good to me

Interesting point about the size difference between RF and EF lenses, was talking to a chap the other day who had the RF 100 - 400 on an R7 I was surprised how small it was hadn’t seen one before Apparently it can focus quite close as well so a pretty useful and easy to carry setup for nature...

Great idea we have let the bottom part of our garden grow wild , put down wildflower seeds 3 years ago and just left it Also have a couple of ponds for the frogs and dragonflies, last couple of years have been lucky enough to see Dragonflies emerge and fly We dont have a green garden waste bin...

Sounds like I was unlucky with our Karcher battery strimmer, with everyones experience here with battery powered gardening equipment at the moment we have 2 petrol lawnmowers one for the garden and one we use at the allotment for communal grass areas near our plot The one for the garden came...

I actually went the other way from a Karcher battery strimmer to a petrol one The Karcher was good when new but not long out of guarantee the battery died and wouldnt take a charge A new battery was nearly as much as i paid for the strimmer so gave up with it My wife found a two stroke petrol...

Had a nice chill day sat in the sun ☀️ watching butterflies and listening to the birds , cuckoo especially and I think Lapwing too

DXO is worth it though I have shot a band in low light and had to use maximum ISO on my R5 to get a high enough shutter speed, the results were really good

The Tamron 90mm macro is a good lens anyway Do see what you mean though I have reprocessed raws that i took years ago on cameras that would be considered out of date with DXO 8 and am very happy with the results

Lucky spot today at Chester zoo Messed up the exposure unfortunately white overexposed

Amazing saw it today at Chester zoo

Could also be what cheered me up today a great Sunday ride out on the Bandit around north wales and at least where I was very few car’s which surprised me for a Sunday

I have used a 7D mk 1 and 2 for still and moving subjects a lot before I went full frame, I didn’t have any issues with the image quality from either but you had to nail the exposure, i used plus a third exposure compensation I did find the 7D mk 1 not so good for moving subjects the focus...