One of the nice things about this place is that we're looking back into a "preserve." (It's a swamp.) From the kitchen window, we can make out large white birds perched in the trees back there, though it usually takes binoculars or the camera with a long telephoto to identify them. (Cormorants and anhingas are easier.)
There were three yesterday afternoon. This white ibis was one of them. The large one was a wood stork. I didn't get a shot of the third, which I think was another ibis.
This wasn't the best shot, but it was the one I liked the most.
The E-M1X with the 100-400mm lens and the 1.4x teleconverter, so 1120mm effective focal length.
In other camera news, I bought a new, used, lens.
I took the 75-300mm zoom up to New York and left it there on purpose. I love that lens as a walk-about telephoto zoom. It's very light and pretty decent for the kind of casual birding I do. The 100-400mm is better, but it's heavy so I won't bring it unless I'm mainly interested in shooting, not walking.
I've been keeping the 14-150mm zoom on the OM-5 as a walk-about combo, and it's very versatile and sharp, but it doesn't have as much reach as I'd like if I encounter a bird.
So I finally succumbed to curiosity and GAS and bought an mZuiko 12-200mm/f3.5-6.3 super-zoom. It came in yesterday and I took a few shots with it. I haven't made any exhaustive tests, but the biggest criticism is that it's soft at 200mm, which is the main reason I bought it.
I shot the street sign down on the corner and my initial impression is that it's sharp enough for me. It's an "intermediate" quality lens, not "pro," but better than "kit." Weather sealed, which is nice, as my 14-150mm is not. It's heavier, with a 72mm filter diameter around a fairly large front element. So I don't know how it'll handle on the OM-5, I used the OM-1 for my first shots.
More testing will have to wait, as I'm getting ready to head over to my son's to visit with his family and watch Romulus on his new home-theater setup.
Anyway, still dicking around with cameras. Some things never change.
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Originally posted at Nice Marmot 09:02 Sunday, 8 December 2024