Birds in flight - Cropping 'ell
Birds in flight was one of my biggest problems when using the Fuji system. I just could not crack it despite hundreds of hours of adjustment, attempts, frustration and fails.
I'm still not 100% convinced it was the camera that was the problem. I think like glasses camera equipment is all down to personal taste and some people will suit some systems better than others.
The system that I found I got the best results out of was when I owned a Canon 1D mk3 and the Sigma 150-600mm. I only used this system for 1 week in The Gambia and absolutely loved it. Unfortunately my shoulder did not and 4 days in it went ping.
One of my concerns with the Olympus was the small sensor. These typically do not crop well from my experience and leave an over pixelated image. The other was focus speed. The Fuji's initial focus lock was one of its poorest features and it was that which led me to abandoning the system.
Here are my findings. Admittedly I only had a few photos of a fast moving Greenshank to test on but the results are very encouraging.
They don't make for top quality photos but its sometimes necessary for wildlife photographers to take a photo of a fast moving animal at distance to capture the record. This was the case here and the Olympus performed well. Initial focus lock was almost DSLR like in its accuracy and speed and it held this lock while I had the bird in my sights.
The cropping ability speaks for itself with the photos. I have not applied any sharpening to these photos, merely lowered shadows and raised the exposure to show more detail on the underside of the bird.
Obviously a lot more testing is required but this is a pleasing start for two factors of camera ownership that I consider very important.
I'm still not 100% convinced it was the camera that was the problem. I think like glasses camera equipment is all down to personal taste and some people will suit some systems better than others.
The system that I found I got the best results out of was when I owned a Canon 1D mk3 and the Sigma 150-600mm. I only used this system for 1 week in The Gambia and absolutely loved it. Unfortunately my shoulder did not and 4 days in it went ping.
One of my concerns with the Olympus was the small sensor. These typically do not crop well from my experience and leave an over pixelated image. The other was focus speed. The Fuji's initial focus lock was one of its poorest features and it was that which led me to abandoning the system.
Here are my findings. Admittedly I only had a few photos of a fast moving Greenshank to test on but the results are very encouraging.
They don't make for top quality photos but its sometimes necessary for wildlife photographers to take a photo of a fast moving animal at distance to capture the record. This was the case here and the Olympus performed well. Initial focus lock was almost DSLR like in its accuracy and speed and it held this lock while I had the bird in my sights.
The cropping ability speaks for itself with the photos. I have not applied any sharpening to these photos, merely lowered shadows and raised the exposure to show more detail on the underside of the bird.
Obviously a lot more testing is required but this is a pleasing start for two factors of camera ownership that I consider very important.
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