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Birding stills with the PL100-400 (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Ian Shepherd
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I like the crow!
Thanks, they are waiting for the ducklings
Had a week of struggling with the Olympus, i could not get any decent BIF shots, found out it uses PDAF for C-AF focusing and like a DSLR it can need AF fine tune.
Gone back to S-AF for everything until i can get it sorted.
Some S-AF results
Gone back to S-AF for everything until i can get it sorted.
Some S-AF results
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The fact that the PDAF points are on the actual sensor and not on a separate sensor like in dSLR would theoretically mean that the need for AF fine tune should be very small???
Niels
It would seem it still can need it, i could hardly get a decent image with C-AF.
I had to AF fine tune my Olympus 12-100 lens, I'll have to re-check the PL 100-400 too 
I had to AF fine tune my Olympus 12-100 lens, I'll have to re-check the PL 100-400 too
I may be talking to you, it sounds and looks far more complicated than Nikon.
The last two are nice. In general, you can squeeze out more from this combo ;-)
Its beginning to look that way.
Nice!
Two very nice shots
Thanks, conditions weren’t great, but quite pleased with my results, also salvaged a Crow out of the mist.
Did capture a couple of Rosy Starlings, but not really representative of the capabilities of the lens.
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This month I was in Tajikistan and managed a few birding excursion. This include a couple of steep scrambling over rocky and loose slopes in high altitude. I had the G85+100-400 mm with me. I took it in my new backpack (Mindshift Ultralight 16 L), which has a side access pocket fitting the camera perfectly. I can't imagine a better camerera for this type of use, except perhaps a good bridge camera, but certainly I wouldn't take anything bigger.
The picture quality is absolutely acceptable for my standards (I'm mostly after documentation and record shots).
You can see the results in a short report I wrote above in the real birdforum: https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=363819
Most of the landscape shots are with the G85+12-60 kit lens (a few are with mobile phones). As I was often close to the Afghan border, the 100-400 was also at times useful for some close ups of people of the other side (e.g. the caravan picture in the first post).
The picture quality is absolutely acceptable for my standards (I'm mostly after documentation and record shots).
You can see the results in a short report I wrote above in the real birdforum: https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=363819
Most of the landscape shots are with the G85+12-60 kit lens (a few are with mobile phones). As I was often close to the Afghan border, the 100-400 was also at times useful for some close ups of people of the other side (e.g. the caravan picture in the first post).
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