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<blockquote data-quote="Clovishound" data-source="post: 841293" data-attributes="member: 50197"><p>I know, I was going to wait for Christmas to unwrap and use the 180-600. I was doing really well, then our nature photography club had to move the monthly outing this Saturday to Magnolia Plantation. This time of year birds are the main draw, unless they have the Model A cars this weekend. I just couldn't go shoot birds with my old lens.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😱" title="Face screaming in fear :scream:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" data-shortname=":scream:" /> Everyone gave me the go ahead and I pulled it out and installed my Arca style adapter and balanced it on my gimble head. I decided to go out in the back yard and take a few test shots.</p><p></p><p>There was a tree rat in the crepe myrtle tree out front, so I shot him first. This was handheld and was processed with no cropping. He wouldn't let me get any closer without scampering off.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]424309[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>This was just a test of close focusing magnification. 600mm at minimum distance. Good enough for large insects and small birds. Especially with the cropping the Z8 sensor will allow.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]424310[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I was fortunate to have a red shouldered hawk fly overhead for a bit. AF is much faster than the old 200-500. Time will tell if it locks and tracks better. This image as VERY heavily cropped, as well as being shot handheld.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]424311[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clovishound, post: 841293, member: 50197"] I know, I was going to wait for Christmas to unwrap and use the 180-600. I was doing really well, then our nature photography club had to move the monthly outing this Saturday to Magnolia Plantation. This time of year birds are the main draw, unless they have the Model A cars this weekend. I just couldn't go shoot birds with my old lens.😱 Everyone gave me the go ahead and I pulled it out and installed my Arca style adapter and balanced it on my gimble head. I decided to go out in the back yard and take a few test shots. There was a tree rat in the crepe myrtle tree out front, so I shot him first. This was handheld and was processed with no cropping. He wouldn't let me get any closer without scampering off. [ATTACH type="full" alt="DSC_2433-topaz-rawdenoise.jpg"]424309[/ATTACH] This was just a test of close focusing magnification. 600mm at minimum distance. Good enough for large insects and small birds. Especially with the cropping the Z8 sensor will allow. [ATTACH type="full" alt="DSC_2436-topaz-rawdenoise.jpg"]424310[/ATTACH] I was fortunate to have a red shouldered hawk fly overhead for a bit. AF is much faster than the old 200-500. Time will tell if it locks and tracks better. This image as VERY heavily cropped, as well as being shot handheld. [ATTACH type="full" alt="DSC_2443-topaz-rawdenoise-2.jpg"]424311[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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