Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you for the flight images. With a 600 a gimbal/sidekick makes tracking a moving object a study in catching the subject and not balancing a heavy lens. On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 11:08 PM Doug Herr via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > I use a different camera support for different situations. For waiting > quietly under the camo net I?m using a small very portable tripod near > ground level (the camp chair places my butt a couple of inches off the > ground) and an acratech long lens head. For flight photos I use a big > standing-height tripod with the same head, or with a sidekick added to the > head. > > The in-flight photos are here, beginning in November 2019: > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/anatidae/anser/ansros.html < > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/anatidae/anser/ansros.html> > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/anatidae/spatula/spacly.html < > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/anatidae/spatula/spacly.html> > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/anatidae/anas/anaacu.html < > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/anatidae/anas/anaacu.html> > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com <http://www.wildlightphoto.com/> > > > > > On Jan 27, 2020, at 7:37 AM, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > > > > Your images don't require comments as they stand with any of the best > bird > > photographers extant. However, I wonder if you are using a gimbal for > the > > 600 as I am not seeing in flight images. > > > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 5:44 AM Douglas Herr via LUG < > lug at leica-users.org> > > wrote: > > > >> I spent a few hours under camo netting at the nearby American River here > >> in Sacramento County and made a few photos: > >> > >> a resident Bald Eagle > >> > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/accipitridae/haliaeetus/halleu12.html > >> > >> Barrow's Goldeneye visiting for the winter > >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/anatidae/bucephala/bucisl08.html > >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/anatidae/bucephala/bucisl10.html > >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/anatidae/bucephala/bucisl11.html > >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/anatidae/bucephala/bucisl12.html > >> > >> Common Merganser > >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/anatidae/mergus/mermer27.html > >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/anatidae/mergus/mermer28.html > >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/anatidae/mergus/mermer30.html > >> > >> all photos: a7rIII, 600/4 GM, tripod, comfy camp chair, cheap camo > netting > >> all comments are welcome. > >> > >> Doug Herr > >> Birdman of Sacramento > >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > > > -- > > Don > > don.dory at gmail.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Don don.dory at gmail.com