[Leica] Dolphin Dance

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Luis
Thanks for looking.

Are you back home, fit as a fiddle, as yet?

Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Lluis Ripoll <
lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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