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V-Spec

Soldato
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I've started my deer campaign way ahead of time this year, to prepare for the Rut in September/October.
The morning started out very dismally but soon got nicer, the evening was also very nice.

The only downside of the day was being plagued to death by people, and being threatened by a bunch of chavs :D

1D MkIII
600 F4 IS

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<EDIT> Added this one, as I can't make my mind up..

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Cheers guys :)

domthecondom said:
i love 3 4 and 6

what did the chavs do?
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We were sat down at the edge of the path looking into the Bracken where the Stag was messing around, this parade of chavs came walking past and started just generally slagging us off. It went on for a few minutes and they started taking pictures of us... I told one of them to go and shave his pitbull's b***s, and from then it just became tedious.. 6 chavs + 3 Photographers with around £35ks worth of gear - not much we can do about it, I didn't want to risk being attacked as my gear costs too much, and I'm trying to steer clear of trouble as i've had my fair share of it in the past lol :(
 
SilverPenguin said:
The panning shot is great, what were the settings?
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Cheers, settings were:

mkIII/600
ISO 100
F10
1/50th
-0.33ev

The difficult part was shooting in single shot silent mode, which is like shooting in bulb mode (mirror lockup whilst on the shutter) to keep the noise down. About 25 deer made a dash for it and I had to single one out, I managed to take 2 shots the other was just a mess lol.
 
Nice! So if the mirror is locked does that not mean you can't see anything thorugh the viewfinder? No experience of the Canon silent mode at all. Its one thing I wish the D3 had, the amount of times the first shot makes an animal look over and the second shot makes it run for the hills...! lol
 
SilverPenguin said:
Nice! So if the mirror is locked does that not mean you can't see anything thorugh the viewfinder? No experience of the Canon silent mode at all. Its one thing I wish the D3 had, the amount of times the first shot makes an animal look over and the second shot makes it run for the hills...! lol
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Basically yes.

With silent mode when you hit the shutter, the mirror locks up and the shutter opens and closes for the duration of the exposure. The mirror remains locked up until you release the shutter a second or 2 later, so you're completley blind - not ideal for panning but somehow it worked.
 
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