I left the camera up at our back door with the Sigma f8 600mm Mirror lens on a tripod over the weekend, and focused very carefully using Liveview (some Canon digital SLR’s let you use the lcd menu and playback screen on the back of the camera to compose the photo. The downside is no auto focus. Of course, the Sigma doesn’t auto focus anyway…). This is a male (red moustache) Northern Flicker (red shafted?).
(1/90, ISO 400, +1/2 stop)
I tried a few in Monochrome, formerly know as Black and White, using the red or yellow filters that came with the Sigma lens, and the yellow software filter in the camera.
(1/30, ISO 640)
(1/90, ISO 1600)
Back to Color.
(1/180, ISO 800)
(1/180, ISO 800)
(1/125, ISO 640)
None of these have been cropped, just reduced in size to fit here. This is across the narrow width of my back yard. 600mm (960mm in crop sensor speak…) is a lot of lens! I can hardly wait until I can afford a really GOOD long telephoto!
~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>
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