[Leica] Polar Bear Kill

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Well, the whole action took about 45 seconds. I missed the whole sequence
of a seal pup being taken out of the den kicking and screaming, and being
dispatched with a bite to the neck. John did not.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at 
rabinergroup.com>wrote:

> I loved your shots Jayanand like I said but I can't see that the bears were
> doing so amazing in such a fast breaking continuous way which justifies
> holding a shutter release button down for 75 continuous RAW's. Biting into
> a
> seal?  Dragging one out of the water?
> I think Shaw was just trying to psyche you out holding down the D4 shutter
> release machine gun style. The bears were not leaping through Hula hoops
> made of fire. You were best off doing what you were doing. Picking off the
> best moments... More decisively.
> Those seals certainly looked tender and delicious. Its THEIR fault they're
> so delicious that's what I SAY!
>
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>
>
> > From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 08:00:23 +0530
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Polar Bear Kill
> >
> > Thanks to all who took time to look and comment. Leo, I always shoot
> > to the CF card - the SD is there only for overflows. Quibbles aside,
> > the D800E is an awesome camera - it was perfect for 99% of the
> > photographs, and most importantly, it gives me wide latitude in
> > cropping. If you plan to use it with a tripod, landscapes, macro, etc,
> > it has to be the greatest bargain going - MF quality at a fraction of
> > the cost. John Shaw was shooting next to me with a D4 - he rattled off
> > 75 continuous RAW shots before his buffer protested. Maybe a combo of
> > a D800E and a D4 is the best to cover all types of photography.....
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 2:38 AM, Leo Wesson <leowesson at gmail.com> 
> > wrote:
> >> Jayanand,
> >>
> >> Were you shooting to the sd or the cf?
> >>
> >> Leo Wesson
> >> Photographer | Videographer
> >> www.leowesson.com
> >> 817.733.9157
> >>
> >> On Jul 21, 2012, at 12:26 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
> >> gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> The absolute highlight of the whole trip to the pack ice around
> >>> Spitsbergen was to see and photograph a Polar Bear raid a seal nursery
> >>> chamber successfully. I captured most of the action, but the D800E has
> >>> one big limitation for action - low FPS, and even more than that,
> >>> limited buffer capacity (mainly due to the huge files), and that came
> >>> and bit me in the butt big time. I had purchased this body full aware
> >>> of this limitation, but (very unreasonably) it still irritates! I had
> >>> no time to switch to the D700, which would have effortlessly taken the
> >>> whole sequence. Anyway, here goes - it was a Female Polar Bear with
> >>> two cubs:
> >
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