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This one has a more conventional crop

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I prefer this crop and there is a richness in the brown feathers the other is lacking.

Wow, razor sharp and great background seperation can I ask how long you'd spend shooting to get a shot like this, I'd imagine it usually take a whole lot of patience, and probably learning favoured resting sites etc.

Incredible sharpness! Great crop!

This is spectacular... It is a large improvement over the first and that was special.

edit: Bob what lens are you using?? I was reading the exif data from the image iso1600 and so clean. The D3 showing its worth. The lens shows 700mm???


MATT

Alpha_7 wrote:Wow, razor sharp and great background seperation can I ask how long you'd spend shooting to get a shot like this, I'd imagine it usually take a whole lot of patience, and probably learning favoured resting sites etc.

Yesterday was an investment of about 2.5hrs. - but luck plays a big part.

I will know where to look next time and then hope for good light.

MATT wrote:This is spectacular... It is a large improvement over the first and that was special.

edit: Bob what lens are you using?? I was reading the exif data from the image iso1600 and so clean. The D3 showing its worth. The lens shows 700mm???


MATT

This was the 500 f4 with a 1.4 T/C combo giving the 700 which you need this and more with the FF sensor of the D3. Not the ideal birders camera but you get lucky now and again.

Here's another shot with a different head angle

No luck there Bob.. Great image.

MATT