Scarlett honeyeater

[hotspur]

Recently these very colourful little birds has visited our garden,they feed in grevilla shrubs,there is quite a few,they are very small about 3 inches long.

They move very fast all the time,and difficult to get a good image.

Image 1 is how it came out of camera,2 is a crop-1000th iso 400 f 6.3 using 50D and 400 prime L hand held.

image 3 is using same gear and settings except speed-250th.

Hope you enjoy looking at these,as I certainly enjoy having them in garden.

Cheers Chris

[bloodhound31]

Nice work Chris. Even though it is barely on the side of a little bit dark, I really like the first, uncropped photograph the most.

What's your opinion on the 400L? How long have you had it? Do you thik you would get away with a 2 x extender on your 70-200L instead?

Beautiful creature!

Baz.

[lacad01]

Very nice shots Chris, maybe up the brightness a tad on the last one :thumbsup:

[hotspur]

Barry,the 400 mm prime F 5.6 is very good, had it since Sept 2009.Very light to carry in the field,a pleasure to use.

Never thought of using a 2 times tele with the 70-200 F 2.8,I think it would be very heavy and cumbersome in the field.

I seem to find the 400 a good length for birding,I used to use a 70-300 was always at 300.obviously a 500 or 600 would be better,but out of the price range for most of us.

Has anyone here used a 70-200 with 2 times tele? Might be worth looking into Barry.It would make the lens a 140-400 at 5.6,a defacto Canon 100-400 (mine will be without the IS).But would be interested to here how it would go in use.

I have a RAW file of first image,so maybe able to lighten it up a bit and do some work with it,the image is as it came from camera,really only just starting to use 50d with 400 L

Cheers Chris

[Vanda]

Great shots. If you get an extender would it reduce the light further? F5.6 is a slight handicap already. ($related of course)
Would love to have a 400 lens myself.

[bloodhound31]

Cheers Chris, I found a good review that is a bit more enlightening. To sum up, it is better to just get a 400mm as you reduce the f stop of a 70-200 and also lose image quality, but for around $400 or so it's a good alternative to thousands of dollars..

http://www.the-digital-picture.com/reviews/canon-extender-ef-2x-ii-teleconverter-review.aspx

Baz.

[multiweb]

:eyepop: Terrific shots. The colour are so vivid. Excellent. :thumbsup:

[Ric]

Great shots Chris

Fantastic colours on the little fellows.

Cheers