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Not sure if this is too dark as my monitor isn't calibrated, have others said it's too dark on another forum and reposted with what appears about 10-15% brightness increase.

Taken at Banyule Flats last November in the first week of acquiring my 500MM lens.


D70, 500AFSII, 1.4X, SB800 + BB, G1325 + Wimberley
ISO 400, 700MM, 1/160, F/10, Aperture Priority, Matrix, Flash EV -3.0 (oops).

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Great photo Darryl,

you really make that lens sing

I'm not on the best of monitors here, but looks fine to me.

cheers,

Andre

Yeah looks great from this side

Gorgeous Darryl and the exposure looks fine on my LCD. Nice and sharp too. Is this a crop ? or the full frame ?

Absolutely Brilliant!!!

Tim

Fantastic Darryl, looks perfect from here.

Wow, that really pops! I run a dual monitor setup, with one each LCD and CRT. Looks great on both!

The only thing extra I'd ask for, and this is being really picky, is a touch more depth of field to get the feet in focus as well. As it is they're close, but not quite in.

Definitely framing and hanging on the lounge room wall material!

It's about 75-80% of fullframe so not much of a crop. Still a lot of pixels on the original, around 2400px on the longest side. As for the DOF, I'm struggling to get a decent amount of DOF with this lens and as you see I was running 1/160 and F10, ISO400 which is my own personal preference as a maximum to eliminate noise too much noise. This was pretty much on minimum focus, and this lens has bugger all DOF at min focus even if you do adjust the aperture. From what I've heard the DOF is around about an inch at min focus I'll have to check a URL a friend gave me that tells you.

At 5 metres, F10 on a d70 the DOF is only 3.63 cm... and that isn't including the 1.4x TC (not sure how that effects it)

http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html

That is the URL I was looking for

From what I can gather if I went from F/10 to F/16 or F/20 I'd get 5-6cm of DOF to play with. Which I'm not quite sure if it'd get much more of the bird in focus, I definately didn't have the light to do that either.

It looks fine to me from my screen (LCD on laptop). By the way, sensational photo!

Darryl

This is a fine image regardless of any discussion about DOF. If I had an image of this calibre I'd be proud as punch.

As I said, I was being really picky. Glad I was though - that's a very interesting URL! Found a reference to a 1200 - 1700mm lens the other day (here), so I plugged in 1200mm as focal length. Depth of field at 10 metres? 2cm. At 3m? zero...

Back on topic, that is a seriously good pic Darryl. Wish it was mine. Would have been very hard to get a bird like that to stay still long enough to capture it.

Absolutely brilliant Darryl!
cheers
marco

the composition is beautiful and DOF is good as you are at realy long focal length.yeh its little dark but looks good on my monitor.since cuz of yellowish color and cast it have a little dull feel.a little exposure jump can fix it if you have took in RAW.

Cool bird pic!

Beautifully sharp image and lovely bokeh. Well done.

Cheers
Sheila