3/15/2023 0 Comments Topaz detail vs on1 sharp![]() ![]() The camera setup is not too heavy (eg comparing with any camera with the Canon or Nikon 100-400), but as time went on + the cold weather, I found it difficult to hold the camera steady waiting for the birds to take off. It was hovering around zero celsius but windchill made it feel like -10C. The photo sessions was 2 hours long and was worth every penny (CAD 67.80 incl. I was hoping panning from side to side is easier, plus AF tracking may work better. I was the only one who chose to shoot at an angle to the flight path of the birds, everyone else chose to shoot head-on. I guess there is nothing called "AE tracking" where you can tracking metering on moving subjects? Or should I use "evaluative/ auto metering" and let the camera AI decide? However, I don't mind doing some simple editing when I return home. However, I find that nearly all the close-up shots of the perching birds are overexposed to the same degree. when I waited for them to launch, I place the subject at the upper corner of the frame), plus the dark forest in the background may fool the meter. I used center-weighed metering and sometime the bird is not always in the center of the shots (eg. I am a little disappointed with the quality of many pictures (perched resting birds) - even at ISO as low as 1600, the bird feathers lack detail and look "water colored" (looks like NR effect) at 100% view (maybe I should not pixel peep) - maybe this was caused by the dark condition with no incident sunlight?Īnother thing I notice was that nearly all pictures are about 2/3 to 1 EV overexposed, making them look somewhat washed-out. I set max ISO at 20000 and SS at 1/2000 in the custom setting, though for some reason the SS was 1/3200 when I shot, a mistake I made. I was shooting with e-shutter only at regular multishot speed (about 20 fps) because I only have 2X256BG cards in the camera ( I ended up with about 5700 pictures from a 2-hour session). However, AF sometime got fooled by the background. ![]() The OM-1 works perfectly for birding, better than any other cameras I currently have - C-AF+ TR plus tracking focus on birds nails the perching birds immediately 100% of times, hit rate during flight was good (60%-ish) as long as I can keep track of the bird, a skill I am trying to develop coming to paid photo sessions like this. ![]() The Panasonic 100-400 works perfectly with the OM-1 body (I am not going to dish out $1500+ for yet another long tele-zoom). They bring out birds to show them perching and flying (from tree stump to tree stump, coaxed by food, about 50-80 ft away from the audience) My first try on BIF in a completely controlled environment - photo session at Canadian Raptor Conservancy, Vittoria, Ontario. ![]()
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