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Firetail

Postby Mr Darcy on Tue Aug 26, 2014 11:40 am

These visited last October, and i thought they had been driven from their normal home by the bushfires. But they have made another visit over the last few weeks. This has enabled me to hone my stalking techniques. Though I still have a long way to go.
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Re: Firetail

Postby aim54x on Tue Aug 26, 2014 12:24 pm

Such a beautiful bird...was this captured from your hide? Wonderful photo, I am sure your stalking technique is working quite well and eagarly await more images as you you become more stealthy
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Re: Firetail

Postby Remorhaz on Tue Aug 26, 2014 12:38 pm

Cool - Gerry recently got a nice one of these too
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Re: Firetail

Postby zafra52 on Tue Aug 26, 2014 3:38 pm

Excellent photo, I don't think it would have been easy to take as they are quite nervous creatures.
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Re: Firetail

Postby biggerry on Thu Aug 28, 2014 3:30 pm

fine image Greg, love that red colour on them, still amazes me how colourful some of this little birds are!

Remorhaz wrote:Cool - Gerry recently got a nice one of these too


ahh Rodney, sacrilege very different birds ;) mine was a silver eye and i know that cause I am a bird expert now :) :rotfl2:
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Re: Firetail

Postby Murray Foote on Tue Sep 02, 2014 1:50 am

Very nice capture. That's with the 200mm I presume.
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Re: Firetail

Postby Mr Darcy on Tue Sep 02, 2014 10:07 am

Murray Foote wrote:Very nice capture. That's with the 200mm I presume.

No. The 200 is broken and in for repair. Tripod fell over.

It was the 70-200/2.8 with 2x Teleconverter (TC20E-III). Final focal length reported is 320mm,f/8, but it is cropped from there.
I find the TC works better at less than the full stretch of the zoom lens.
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Re: Firetail

Postby Murray Foote on Tue Sep 02, 2014 3:26 pm

Ooooo. Sounds expensive.

That's pretty good for a zoom lens, even the 70-200, then.
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