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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CalvinFold" data-source="post: 3341199" data-attributes="member: 119570">From experience, I'd say this is pushing it for distance and (relative) sharpness and clarity, but I think does show what's possible with patience, practice, and a fair bit of luck. These are two photos of a Turkey Vulture moving at a faster-than-soaring speed while cruising the marsh at low altitude and making quick turns.They were taken at 100m (110 yards) and like all my photos were taken as high-res JPEG, low compression, low NR, handheld, no framing assist, no digital zoom, no digital teleconverter, from a continuous burst while tracking the bird in the EVF.Post-processed via Adobe Camera RAW (Blacks, Whites, Highlights, Shadows, and Clarity). In Photoshop, rotated (because I shot them at a weird angle because of an obstruction), cropped to remove unwanted elements and because of rotation, scaled to fit forum requirements (1024x900), and Smart Sharpened. Except for rotating the photo, pretty typical post-processing for my forum posts.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/546907/ppuser/119570" target="_blank">Turkey Vulture 1</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/546908/ppuser/119570" target="_blank">Turkey Vulture 2</a></li> </ul>Rotating the image made the camera noise more obvious, but I personally don't think this is too bad for a "lowly bridge camera."</blockquote>

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