[Leica] Dolphin Dance

[Adam Bridge]

Ah, I understand now Jayanand. I certainly didn’t mean to talk down to you. Since I have no investment in DSLR gear at this point I’m simply working to make the best of the mirrorless gear I have. 

I’m enjoying the challenge.

I certainly cannot argue with the results you have achieved.

Well done and inspiring.

Adam


> On 2017 Aug  17, at 10:18 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Adam,
> I know the X system very well, having used it since the initial launch of
> the X-Pro1, through X-E1, X-T1, X100s to the X-T2 at present. The way I
> managed here is to take a barrage of photographs to fill up the extremely
> limited buffer, hoping a few were OK, waiting for the buffer to empty, and
> then letting go with another barrage. The X-T2 lets me take 25 RAW shots
> before the buffer chokes, while a Nikon D500 lets me take 200 RAW shots,
> with far, far superior focus acquisition and tracking. The X-T2 is not a
> patch on the Nikon D500 for wildlife/birds, and I do not want to spend $$$$
> buying a slow telephoto zoom with limited use. IMHO, mirrorless has some
> way to go yet to catch up with DSLRs for action photography, despite all
> the hype and hoopla surrounding it at present. I am sticking with my Nikon
> kit for the foreseeable future!
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> There are a wealth of settings on the X-T2 that interact with the
>> continuous focus. I found (somewhere) a recommended set that seemed to work
>> quite well for me. Another friend took his X-T2 shooting birds and sea
>> otters and got very good results - on the order of 80% of his images were
>> in-focus - not bad for white birds against the sky.
>> 
>> So it’s worth experimenting.
>> 
>> Adam
>> 
>> 
>>> On 2017 Aug  11, at 8:01 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Wildlife wise, the best encounter of our Canada trip was with a large pod
>>> of playful feeding Pacific White-sided Dolphin at the waters around
>>> Campbell River in British Columbia. They were great to see, and I spent a
>>> lot of time taking a break from photography, just looking at them
>>> frolicking. This trip I had decided to borrow Howard Cummer's Fuji
>> 100-400,
>>> and stick with a Fuji X-T2 for the whole trip, not taking my Nikon
>>> equipment at all, so that I could evaluate the mirrorless kit for action
>>> sequences. It was a decision I came to regret quite early on - I was
>>> getting around 10% of focused images, on High Speed tracking mode,
>> compared
>>> to my normal hit rate of around 80% with the Nikon kit. In other words, a
>>> no contest for action sequences, though as you would expect, it was
>>> perfectly fine for static shots. Mirrorless still has some way to go, on
>>> both focus acquisition and tracking in high speed mode, and I am not
>> going
>>> to repeat the experiment anytime soon! Here are some dolphin captures,
>>> then, and they are all different ones!
>> 
>> 
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