G3 and Nikon D7000 - photos of same bird (1 Viewer)

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Winterdune

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• Aug 23, 2011

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Hi all,

Went with a friend to the Pyrenees for a short trip (see other thread). He took his shot of this Crag Martin with a the Nikkor 300mm F4 and a 1.4 converter. Mine was with the Panasonic G3 and 100-300mm lens.

Each shot has only been cropped. For a kit costing (and weighing) half as much I'm quite happy with the results.

Sean

PS his is at ISO 320 and mine at 800.

 

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Hobbes2

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• Aug 23, 2011

• #2

Just to be sure, which is yours and which is his, lol?

 

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Winterdune

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• Aug 23, 2011

• #3

Mine is the less fluffy one! Here are two more. I've corrected mine to be nearer his in colours, but apart from cropping made no other changes. Wanna guess again?

 

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Hobbes2

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• Aug 24, 2011

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They are indeed not far off one another, Sean. If I were you, I'd be a happy chappy . Were these taken at full frame, please? I'm finding that for best results the subject needs to make a decent full frame shot - there isn't the sharpness there to crop very far into the image.
Thanks
Hobbes

 

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Winterdune

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• Aug 24, 2011

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They were not full frame Hobbes. Here are the originals. As you can see the Crag Martin is quite a big crop. I'm finding with this lens that F8 or therereabouts and shutter speeds at least around 600 are needed for handholding, even with the IS, so I push the ISO up as far as necessary for that.

 

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Hobbes2

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• Aug 25, 2011

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seanofford said:

They were not full frame Hobbes. Here are the originals. As you can see the Crag Martin is quite a big crop. I'm finding with this lens that F8 or therereabouts and shutter speeds at least around 600 are needed for handholding, even with the IS, so I push the ISO up as far as necessary for that.

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Thanks Sean. I'd say the Crag Martin is at the end of the range of where the lens seems to be sharp. Anything beyond that and cropping results aren't as satisfactory. I agree with you, I'm aiming for higher shutter speeds and upping the ISO as necessary. I'm trying to leave the aperture as wide as possible but keeping in mind that you've mentioned f/8 is the magic number.
Thanks
Hobbes

 

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Winterdune

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• Aug 25, 2011

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How do you mean Hobbes? The Crag Martin is at 300mm so the lens doesn't have any more range. Do you mean in terms of size within the frame? I'd tend to agree with that, but I don't think it's a question of lens sharpness - just that below that size you don't have the pixels for the detail.

Cheers
Sean