But you still got it Harry...I don't shoot too many birds but I spotted this one today while walking in the woods. I had the wrong lens on completely so this is heavily cropped.
I believe it is a Mistle Thrush but would be happy for anyone to correct me.
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I used that combo for quite some time. I will say the pop red dot sight from Olympus helped me a ton to quickly acquire the target and then bring my face up to the camera while tracking it. Sometimes I’d just spray and pray while only looking through the red dot.Good Afternoon,
This image was the first decent attempt at using the M.Zuiko 300mm f4 with the MC-14 TC for BIF. Finding the moving target and keeping it locked will take more practice on my end for certain. The Sync-IS seemed to work really well and kept the EVF image very stable. I have the MC-20 TC on the way as of today, to give that a good run (effective 1200mm!); time will tell if it is worth the money.
Regards,
Edd
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Hi Chris,I used that combo for quite some time. I will say the pop red dot sight from Olympus helped me a ton to quickly acquire the target and then bring my face up to the camera while tracking it. Sometimes I’d just spray and pray while only looking through the red dot.
I will say I never recall seeing the vignetting that I see in your shot. Was this a straight out of camera jpg? Great shot though!
I used that combo for quite some time. I will say the pop red dot sight from Olympus helped me a ton to quickly acquire the target and then bring my face up to the camera while tracking it. Sometimes I’d just spray and pray while only looking through the red dot.
I had purchased the Oly Red-Dot sight a couple of years ago when I was using the MetaBones EF to MFT adapter with an EF 300mm and 400mm lens; never really warmed up to it honestly (YMMV...) and sold it in less than a month.
Graham,I looked into the EE-1 and concluded it would be a pain to align every time I mounted it in the hot shoe. I'm also a cheapskate, demanding value for products (though you'd never know from the amount of equipment I've bought!). I bought a pack of Picatinny rails and proceeded to modify the suitable length rail and screw + epoxy it to the side of the 300mm's tripod collar. I can mount or remove the commercial all-metal dot site and never have to realign it. Total cost was under $80 CDN:
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Edd, the tripod collar is formed sheet metal with a slick plastic insert so it rotates smoothly around the lens body. I can send you a few pics of the rest of the prep and mounting process and the written description of what I did.Graham,
Now that is an awesome setup; I'm going to do some machining on the tripod collar based on what I can see in you photo. Thanks for sharing that!
Regards,
Edd
Graham, that would be great. I ordered a dot-sight (4 reticles/red-green) from Amazon this morning. I'll PM you shortly with my email address; thank again, I'm looking forward to getting this done.Edd, the tripod collar is formed sheet metal with a slick plastic insert so it rotates smoothly around the lens body. I can send you a few pics of the rest of the prep and mounting process and the written description of what I did.