DanC.Licks
AKA Daniel Bradley
Deffinitely more detail with the TN. I have mine on most of the time, even with the E-M1 and its "small" sensor.
See you in a few days....
See you in a few days....
I'm quite pleased with these.
TS102 700m (+ 1.5 TN)
EM-5 1000 ISO
I think the pictures are displayed in the other order, however the light with sun breaking through mist is better on the second one without the TN. The intention was not to share for direct side-by-side comparison. I have additional pictures taken with/without TN, same light and almost same angle, could post on the TN thread if you are interested.Deffinitely more detail with the TN. I have mine on most of the time, even with the E-M1 and its "small" sensor.
See you in a few days....
Scope: Celestron 80ED f7.5 600mm
Camera: Olympus E-3
80mm extension tube
Wagtail:
iso 100
1/400s
square crop (4:3 - to 3:3)
Blackbird
iso 100
1/500s
square crop (4:3 - to 3:3)
Nuthatch
iso 400
1/250s
square crop (4:3 - to 3:3)
not sure, some yellow songbird of sorts
iso 400
1/650s
square crop (4:3 - to 3:3)
Magpie
iso 400
1/400s
uncropped
Very nice images!!!
Have been quite successful this season in locating and capturing these charming creatures as they make brief appearances, emerging from the depth of reed belts. Long focal length certainly helps in getting detail.
I personally like the posture in this one. And the bokeh is quite nice too.
E-M5 1000ISO ~80% crop
TS102 + telenegative 1.45x from Zuiko 100-200 lens
A couple from the garden today, both taken with the Teleplus 2X macro focusing teleconverter. The little Field/Wood Mouse is getting to be a regular visitor to the bird table. It's interesting to see the birds reaction when they visit and it is just sat there. Both photos uncropped, ISO 1600.
Paul.
Hi Paul
Your picture of the pigeon looks so clear and sharp. I just got the Nikon D3300 and teleplus NAS x2 MC7 mounted it on my skywatcher 80mm with 52mm extension tube but my picture a bit softer than yours. Please let me know what is the setting in your camera ? (such WB, shutter speed, picture quality D-lighting (ON/OFF), noise reduction etc..
Thanks
I did virtually no post processing for that one. In Nikon ViewNX 2 I moved the sharpening slider just one notch to the right. The sharpening pointer will be between the first two dots. This amount of sharpening is very subtle, you almost don't see a change but I find any more than this and it starts to look a bit aggressive. The only other change I made was to set the color booster to the nature setting and I moved the slider to 21. Then I export the image as a Tiff without resizing, no compression etc. Then I open it in Photoshop and resize the image to 1024 wide. The I use the smart sharpen function in PS which I like a lot for sharpening. The settings for that were - leave in 'Basic' mode, set 'Radius' to 0.5px, in the 'Remove' box set it to 'lens blur' and also tick the 'More Accurate' box. The Wood Pigeon already had a lot of detail so I only used around 20% Smart Sharpening. Again the difference was only very subtle without adding any sharpening artifacts.
I haven't checked to see which of these have an effect when shooting in RAW but my camera settings are -
Shoot in RAW
ISO was 1600
Auto white balance
Active D Lighting set to ON
Color Space sRGB
Noise reduction set to Off
As far as I know, the ViewNX 2 software can make use of the Active D Lighting setting if you have it set to ON. ViewNX 2 also does some noise removal to the RAW whether you set noise reduction to OFF or ON. I set it to off if I want to edit in Lightroom. Lightroom can't make use of the Active D Lighting setting as far as I know. I mostly just use ViewNX 2 but if I want zero noise removal then I go to Lightroom. For posting photos on here, ViewNX 2 does a very good job.
Here's a 100% crop from the same Wood Pigeon photo taken with the Teleplus 2X macro focusing TC.
The TC is quite sharp so any softness will usually come down to air conditions.
Paul.
Thank you for your help.
How far were you away from the pigeon ? What is the configuration on the camera setup ?
eg:
Body + TC2+extension tube(?mm)
Thanks
Sharing a short movie of a Red-Necked Grebe family shot with the E-M5 and the SWED80 + 1.45TN.
Perhaps I should have used shorter focal length, but housing with the TN in got stuck so I had to leave it on until I had access to tools.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XejwyeNlWYs&feature=youtu.be
Here's a Indigo Bunting i recently got.
Canon 500D + Skywatcher 80ED
iso 800
1/320s
cropped