[Leica] Galapagos Continued

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Douglas B and Howard C,
Thanks for looking.

IMHO, the D500 is the king of bird photography now - thanks to its APS-C
format it allows the use of lighter, handheld lenses - which make it very
much easier to track and get sequences of birds in flight. With the new
Nikon 500mm f5.6, you get a field of view equivalent to a 750mm f5.6 lens,
which can be carried the whole day long, and in a body that, with the right
settings (14 bit lossless compressed RAW), has a buffer that accommodates
bursts of up to 200 RAW images at 10fps. What is there not to like?

Most so called "action cameras" fixate on speed (FPS) without mentioning
the buffer at all. What use is a speed of 10-12 fps and a buffer of 20-25
frames? It means you can only shoot for two seconds till you slow to a
crawl. This, at least to me, is one of the fundamental weakness with
mirrorless systems as it is today, for action photography, the other being
focus reacquisition. This will change in the near future, of that I have no
doubt, but the technology is not quite there as yet.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 5:03 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Jayanand,
> Those boobies are bigger birds than I realised - 5 foot wingspan,
> impressive! You got some great shots I particularly like the first
> pelican shot and it is definitely best seen large.
> Douglas
>
>
> On 05/02/2019 16:23, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
> > After giving everyone a bit of a break, I am continuing my Galapagos
> > photographs, with a set of birds.
> >
> > We start with the Brown Pelican, which stays close to shore, so it is
> > relatively easy to photograph:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Galapagos/Galapagos-20181126-3488.jpg.html
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Galapagos/Galapagos-20181126-3493.jpg.html
> >
> > There are three species of Booby found on the Galapagos, the Blue-footed,
> > Red-footed and Nazca. They coexist quite happily, as they feed at
> different
> > parts of the ocean - the Blue-footed close to the shore, the Nazca
> between
> > the islands and the Red-footed far out to sea. The legendary mating dance
> > is of the Blue-footed Booby, but the only one I saw, if one can call it
> > that, was in the undergrowth, some distance away:
> >
> > Blue-footed Booby:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Galapagos/Galapagos-20181128-5005.jpg.html
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Galapagos/Galapagos-20181128-5455.jpg.html
> >
> > Red-footed Booby:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Galapagos/Galapagos-20181130-6829b.jpg.html
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Galapagos/Galapagos-20181130-6710.jpg.html
> >
> > Nazca Booby
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Galapagos/Galapagos-20181128-5062.jpg.html
> >
> > Some other birds include the Swallow-tailed Gull
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Galapagos/Galapagos-20181125-3356.jpg.html
> >
> > Galapagos Brown Noddy Tern (why brown beats me - they look grey to my
> eyes!)
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Galapagos/Galapagos-20181127-4205.jpg.html
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Galapagos/Galapagos-20181127-4211.jpg.html
> >
> > Last but not the least, a penguin on the equator, the Galapagos Penguin,
> > related to the Magellanic penguins. They are not too numerous, and their
> > habitat is a narrow stretch between Fernandina and Isabella Island where
> > the water is appreciably cooler. What really sets them apart, I think, is
> > that they do not live in large, raucous colonies, but in compact family
> > group of 4-5 birds:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Galapagos/Galapagos-20181127-4400.jpg.html
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Galapagos/Galapagos-20181127-4418.jpg.html
> >
> > Please see LARGE
> >
> > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
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