bird legs

[chupathingie]

Tailfeathers and 100KV. Only 4 pics, but these are the legs shots. 2 FT-freindly display images below.

beer and playing with a doubler yesterday.

These and the tossers were all at 1/1000, f5.6 @800 and 400mm.

I’ll add a few more, just getting to go through them tonight. I like the doubler, I lose 2 stops (that is SO unfair!). But, it’s well corrected, color fringes are pretty much not there.

Wish I coulda had my focus tacked on the subject instead of the backyard rez-test rig, but such is life, eh?

[Yoyo]

Ok, I have to know, what doubler and what lens?

[chupathingie]

Canon Extender EF 2x III and a Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II, which together are my astrophoto line-up.

[ravnostic]

Ok, I have to know, what doubler and what lens?

Okay, I have to know, what beer?

//My beer doesn’t allow for this quality photography…

[chupathingie]

Cheap beer. My wife hates real beer, and I hate cheap nasty beer… Coors Light is as utterly tasteless as beer can be, so that’s usually what’s in the fridge. When I can’t take it any more, I buy some Shiner, or Guinness, or try some European craft beer. Pale, dark, amber, hoppy, I don’t care… as long as it’s got some flavor and doesn’t make me gag like Bud.

[Barracuda]

Canon Extender EF 2x III and a Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II, which together are my astrophoto line-up.

My coworker just bought that lens. A beautiful piece of glass. He apparently ended up with a chunk of change left over after he totaled his car and bought a new truck, so he decided to ‘one up’ both of the other photo guys at the office (me and my other coworker who got me into the DSLR). Went from a mid-range P&S to the Canon 7D, 50mm 1.4 and the 70-200 2.8L. Think I’ll wait a year and see if he’s in the mood to sell for a song. Not exactly my idea of a hiking lens though!

[chupathingie]

heheh… yeah, it’s weighty. I originally bought it just for AP, but it’s fun to shoot with and reasonably sharp…when I can nail focus in the right place. On an APS-C cam it would be a great wildlife lens, might even be worth packing (especially if you can get it cheap from the guy at work). Anything above 13Mpixel in an APS-C is going to have a tighter “dot pitch” and larger target size (in pixels) than the 5DII…18Mpixels would produce an image equivalent to mine at ~280mm (I’m talking target image size, not FOV) and a doubler still leaves you at f5.6 which is fast enough to be useful at 1600 or above in decent light.

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