A Pacific Heron with the E-M1

[sheeny]

This is my first post of a photo from my new Olympus OM-D E-M1. I believe it's a Pacific Heron but I'll stand corrected by anyone who knows better;). The bird was roughly 100m away (from my front door too:)). He/she scored a yabbi while I watched (second 2 images).

This was shot with my 70-300 4/3 zoom @ 300mm handheld. Two frames as shot just reduced and saved for the web and the two cropped shots are actual pixels as shot but saved for the web in PS5.

Al.

[Dennis]

Hi AL

What a beautiful bird with some very nice quality and detail for the heavy crops.

Is the EM1 a 4/3 camera or is it an APS-C?

Cheers

Dennis

[astroron]

Beautiful pics Al of a "Pacific White Necked Heron",and With Yabby too boot.:)
The camera and owner are performing well.;)
Cheers:thumbsup:

[sheeny]

G'Day Dennis,

It's a micro 4/3. I have an adapter so I can use my 4/3 lenses on it, but there's a lot of really good micro 4/3 lenses around now. The 70-300 is nothing special - it's just the longest lens I currently have available.

I've seen this bird around our dams a lot over the last few years. First time I've ever seen him catch anything though.

Al.

[sheeny]

Thanks Ron.

I think the yabbi might be of genus "Onoim Doomedus".:P

Al.

[Regulus]

Nice photos, they crop quite well for a 'standard 70-300' lens.
What is the conversion factor for the 4/3 format. My aps-c Canon is 1.6 so my 300=480.
Which is nice until u want a rectilinear wide angle like a 24mm (full-frame format) and have to pay huge amounts for a 14 or 16mm which is going to have barrel distortion.
Trevor

[astroron]

It's a Queensland Yabby Al. :P
Cheers:thumbsup:

[sheeny]

Long way from home , Ron.:P


Thanks Trevor. The 4/3 standard has a conversion factor of 2 - so a 300mm lens is equivalent to a 600 on a full frame camera.

Al.

[astronobob]

300mm handheld, impressive Al. done real good keeping them strong whites down too :thumbsup: Nice birding :thumbsup:

[sheeny]

Ah, that's the 5 axis in camera stabilization at work there, Bob. Couldn't hold it that steady without it;).

There were a couple of other shots where the whites were a bit hot, but I didn't bother to post them. Exposure was pretty good on these two I thought.

Al.