[Leica] Polar Bear Kill

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

I loved your shots Jayanand like I said but I can't see that the bears were
doing so amazing in such a fast breaking continuous way which justifies
holding a shutter release button down for 75 continuous RAW's. Biting into a
seal?  Dragging one out of the water?
I think Shaw was just trying to psyche you out holding down the D4 shutter
release machine gun style. The bears were not leaping through Hula hoops
made of fire. You were best off doing what you were doing. Picking off the
best moments... More decisively.
Those seals certainly looked tender and delicious. Its THEIR fault they're
so delicious that's what I SAY!

Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 08:00:23 +0530
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Polar Bear Kill
> 
> Thanks to all who took time to look and comment. Leo, I always shoot
> to the CF card - the SD is there only for overflows. Quibbles aside,
> the D800E is an awesome camera - it was perfect for 99% of the
> photographs, and most importantly, it gives me wide latitude in
> cropping. If you plan to use it with a tripod, landscapes, macro, etc,
> it has to be the greatest bargain going - MF quality at a fraction of
> the cost. John Shaw was shooting next to me with a D4 - he rattled off
> 75 continuous RAW shots before his buffer protested. Maybe a combo of
> a D800E and a D4 is the best to cover all types of photography.....
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 2:38 AM, Leo Wesson <leowesson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Jayanand,
>> 
>> Were you shooting to the sd or the cf?
>> 
>> Leo Wesson
>> Photographer | Videographer
>> www.leowesson.com
>> 817.733.9157
>> 
>> On Jul 21, 2012, at 12:26 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> The absolute highlight of the whole trip to the pack ice around
>>> Spitsbergen was to see and photograph a Polar Bear raid a seal nursery
>>> chamber successfully. I captured most of the action, but the D800E has
>>> one big limitation for action - low FPS, and even more than that,
>>> limited buffer capacity (mainly due to the huge files), and that came
>>> and bit me in the butt big time. I had purchased this body full aware
>>> of this limitation, but (very unreasonably) it still irritates! I had
>>> no time to switch to the D700, which would have effortlessly taken the
>>> whole sequence. Anyway, here goes - it was a Female Polar Bear with
>>> two cubs:
> 
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