[Leica] Dolphin Dance

[Lluis Ripoll]

Great shots Jayanand! as always

This one is my favorite
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/Canada-20170729-3382.jpg.html <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/Canada-20170729-3382.jpg.html>>

Cheers
Lluis



> El 19 ag 2017, a les 4:48, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> va escriure:
> 
> Adam,
> IMHO it is a barely acceptable kit as a substitute for a DSLR kit for fast
> action sequences. Other than that it is very good, and gives great results.
> However, when I am shooting wildlife, I am constantly on the lookout for
> photographing creatures doing something, and less interested in static
> studies, so this really does not suit me at all.
> 
> Birds in the sky are easy, there is nothing that can interfere with the
> focus, so you can put any system on automatic/wide tracking focus mode and
> get away with it. It is when you want birds in flight to stand out against
> a messy/forest background, with the lens wide open to further blur the
> background, that the quality of focus acquisition/tracking come into play.
> With the Nikon D500/300mm combo in Brazil last year, I was getting
> sequences of 150 shots, around 90% in focus. I found this impossible with
> the Fuji X-T2/100-400mm combo. Both bodies are APS-C format, so it is
> really a like to like comparison!
> 
> Hope that clarifies.
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 1:22 AM, Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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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