Sorry in advance more bird shots.

[Striker (Tony)]

Playing with the 100-400mm today my new toy.

My best bird in flight image so far even though it's an ugly and common Ibis.
The Ibis image is severly cropped the rest are not.

I'm liking the Lens.

Sorry again for all the images.

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Nice Tony, but im sorry too, you need a scope.

[RB (Andrew)]

Wow great work Tony !
Love the BIF and you've got some great colours/detail there.

BTW technically it is a scope, just point it to the heavens. LOL.

[Matty P (Matt)]

Great shots Tony, I really like the third shot. Looks like a great lens.

Well done.

[AlexN]

I nice set of shots indeed.. very sharp.. The last shot is perhaps a touch oversaturated... just on the birds crown, it looks flooded with red, Usually these birds have some fine detail in there, and its a duller looking red.

Other than that, It definitely looks like you picked a winner lens! The kookaburra is amazingly sharp!

[Striker (Tony)]

I nice set of shots indeed.. very sharp.. The last shot is perhaps a touch oversaturated... just on the birds crown, it looks flooded with red, Usually these birds have some fine detail in there, and its a duller looking red.

Alex what would cause this because I haven't made any saturation adjustments just a little sharpening thats about it, I dont touch the colour.

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by Striker

Alex what would cause this because I haven't made any saturation adjustments just a little sharpening thats about it, I dont touch the colour.

Did you shoot in raw or jpg?
If in jpg then maybe you've got picture styles activated.

Do you shoot in sRGB or Adobe RGB colourspace ?
The conversion to web size may have saturated it even though the out-of-camera shot looks ok.
Also if you use PS make sure you have the same colourspace set as your camera.

[Striker (Tony)]

I shoot in raw and used adobe Lightroom 2 to sharpen and convert to Jpeg then resized.

Also if you use PS make sure you have the same colourspace set as your camera.

Not sure what Colourspace means RB..???

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Love the Kookaburra.

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by Striker

Not sure what Colourspace means RB..???

Our eyes can capture a very wide range of colour.
Our cameras are limited in the range they can capture in one single image.

Once we process the image our printers and monitors are even less able to display that colour range.

So they have developed Colour Space standards which help to standardize the colour range from camera to monitor to printer.

If you have an image captured in one colour space and try and display/print it in another colour space you may find that it doesn't quite fit and is unable to show the whole colour range, this is called out of gamut.

Working withing the same colour space from camera to monitor to printer helps keep the colour rendition within the working range.

Now Adobe RGB has a wider range (gamut) than sRGB since it's more suited for printing purposes.
sRGB was developed mainly for web displaying.

It's best to decide which suits you and set your camera, monitor, photoshop/LR2/ACR4.x etc to the same colour space.

[ving (David)]

lovely shots tony!
congrats of the BIF