Blackthorn visitors

gramps · 3 Apr 2017

Sun brought out some small birds on the Blackthorn blossom this morning, chance to put the D500 + 500 f4 + TC1.7 E-II through its paces again.

Chiffchaff

Chiffchaff by Roger, on Flickr

Singing Robin

Singing Robin by Roger, on Flickr

and a couple of Blue Tits

Blue Tit by Roger, on Flickr

Kodiak Qc · 3 Apr 2017

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Yep, early spring adds to the magic!
#1 is fav.

munchycarrot · 4 Apr 2017

Stunning Roger [emoji106]

mark richards · 4 Apr 2017

cracking shots, is the D500 a worthy upgrade fron the D7200 ?

gramps · 4 Apr 2017

munchycarrot said:
Stunning Roger [emoji106]

Thanks Stef

mark richards said:
cracking shots, is the D500 a worthy upgrade fron the D7200 ?

Thanks Mark ... the AF is incredible, as is the card/buffer speed and the ability to customise buttons to, for example, change AF settings at the press of a button.
There are two downsides for me:

The D7200 has WMU, which works and the D500 uses Snapbridge which currently causes all sorts of grief and cannot deal with RAW files ... I've given up on it.
The D7200 seemed to me to produce cleaner images, the D500 can be a bit 'grainy' sometimes but in truth it may be that I am so often taking distant shots using a TC1.7 and cropping.

I was using it along with the D700 yesterday and although I love using the D700 and the images it produces, the AF on the D500 is streets ahead.

Phil-D · 4 Apr 2017

Lovely shots Roger

that's one busy bg that doesn't distract from the subject

ChrisE500 · 4 Apr 2017

Fabulous shots, Roger and lovely colours, especially on the Blue Tits.

Chris

gramps · 4 Apr 2017

Phil-D said:
Lovely shots Roger that's one busy bg that doesn't distract from the subject

Thanks Phil, the birds were taking pollen too and I did see a couple with a bit of yellow around the beak

ChrisE500 said:
Fabulous shots, Roger and lovely colours, especially on the Blue Tits.

Chris

Thanks Chris, a very common but attractive and busy little bird

Mark Johnson · 4 Apr 2017

Lovely shots. Some patience was expended I guess............

gramps · 4 Apr 2017

Mark Johnson said:
Lovely shots. Some patience was expended I guess............

Thanks Mark, the main problem was the wind playing on my old tear ducts ... needed the hankie to help me see through the viewfinder!

Shirleyr · 4 Apr 2017

Fantastic set of photos. +++

gramps · 4 Apr 2017

Shirleyr said:
Fantastic set of photos. +++

Thanks Shirley

Rubber Soul · 4 Apr 2017

A lovely set of images.

gramps · 4 Apr 2017

Rubber Soul said:
A lovely set of images.

Thanks Gary, appreciate your comments.

cruso · 4 Apr 2017

Top set Gramps love the chiffchaff

gramps · 5 Apr 2017

cruso said:
Top set Gramps love the chiffchaff

Many thanks Kev

derbydude · 5 Apr 2017

A nice set chiff chaff is a cracker

gramps · 5 Apr 2017

derbydude said:
A nice set chiff chaff is a cracker

Thanks, nice to see them reminding us it's Spring.

mufftrix · 5 Apr 2017

A nice set and doesn't get much better settings? Especially like the chiffchaff very nice !

Only thing for me is the last one looks like you have missed focus and I would bin it haha!

gramps · 5 Apr 2017

mufftrix said:
A nice set and doesn't get much better settings? Especially like the chiffchaff very nice !

Thanks Mick, love to see the Chiffchaffs coming back

mufftrix said:
Only thing for me is the last one looks like you have missed focus and I would bin it haha!

Looking at the flowers around the bird's feet I don't think focus is far out, however there is movement in the bird which I feel has reduced the sharpness but I like the movement so I won't bin it.
Caveat, my eyes are 70 years old!