[PIC_THREAD] Wildlife, Animals, Birds, Zoo

Kei · 25 Mar 2015 at 00:12

^Nice to see a fellow MF lens user. Looks good, though there aren't many bad 50's out there.

A meadow Pipit from Pen y Fan, caught with my old nikon 300mm f2.8 AI-S.

Meadow Pipit by --Kei--, on Flickr

and a crow in flight

Common Crow by --Kei--, on Flickr

2StepSteve · 2 Apr 2015 at 19:50

Whiskers by SteveRix, on Flickr

Kei · 8 Apr 2015 at 12:02

A recent visit to the local wetlands reserve in Newport. I definitely need to get a TC-14 for my old 300 f2.8 AI-s as some of the crops ended up around 3-4mpx. I can also see why people rely so heavily on autofocus and continuous AF as trying to manually focus on these things with a modern fresnel screen is remarkably difficult.

Male Mallard by --Kei--, on Flickr

Canada Goose by --Kei--, on Flickr

KMW_3454 by --Kei--, on Flickr

KMW_3411 by --Kei--, on Flickr

KMW_3216 by --Kei--, on Flickr

Robin by --Kei--, on Flickr

Aedus · 12 Apr 2015 at 11:57

Duck by Sneakiest Bear, on Flickr

Tiger by Sneakiest Bear, on Flickr

Red Panda by Sneakiest Bear, on Flickr

Ring Tailed Lemur by Sneakiest Bear, on Flickr

Rawr by Sneakiest Bear, on Flickr

Phal · 12 Apr 2015 at 12:22

Kei said:
. I can also see why people rely so heavily on autofocus and continuous AF as trying to manually focus on these things with a modern fresnel screen is remarkably difficult.

I've not been at this photography thing for long compared to some people but I've only used manual focus a handful of times for wildlife! Definitely not something I want to have to do often with the way the manual focusing works.

Kei · 12 Apr 2015 at 18:50

Phal said:
I've not been at this photography thing for long compared to some people but I've only used manual focus a handful of times for wildlife! Definitely not something I want to have to do often with the way the manual focusing works.

I don't have a lot of choice as my 300 f2.8 is from 1986 and pre dates autofocus. (as does 90% of my kit) It would cost over £2k to replace it, which is a bit prohibitive considering, optically it is not far off the current version. It's not so bad when using my F5 with film as I have a split image screen which makes it significantly easier.

Phal · 12 Apr 2015 at 19:45

Kei said:
I don't have a lot of choice as my 300 f2.8 is from 1986 and pre dates autofocus. (as does 90% of my kit) It would cost over £2k to replace it, which is a bit prohibitive considering, optically it is not far off the current version. It's not so bad when using my F5 with film as I have a split image screen which makes it significantly easier.

Yeah the split image focusing isn't too bad

If only stuff was cheaper!

Angst · 12 Apr 2015 at 19:55

Ancalagon by Angst92, on Flickr

Ancalagon macro 1 by Angst92, on Flickr

smr · 12 Apr 2015 at 23:31

All quite quick... First time shooting Wildlife and my first time shooting with a telephoto lens which I received the day before;

Funky Colours by smurkej, on Flickr

Butterfly by smurkej, on Flickr

Nap time by smurkej, on Flickr

Lion and Lioness by smurkej, on Flickr

Lion by smurkej, on Flickr

Cheetahs by smurkej, on Flickr

Phal · 13 Apr 2015 at 08:10

That Cheetah on the left looks a little sceptical

Flubble · 13 Apr 2015 at 21:29

i'm new with cameras, have a canon 1200d and these are the first half decent pictures of birds i have taken and couldn't zoom in any closer (at 300mm)

IMG_0022 by flubble1986, on Flickr

IMG_0021 by flubble1986, on Flickr

*edited as got flickr account set up

Steve M · 15 Apr 2015 at 16:38

A cat in the garden shot. D7100 / 35mm f1.8G @ f1.8:

Max by Steve Millward, on Flickr

Flubble · 16 Apr 2015 at 21:04

IMG_0056 by flubble1986, on Flickr

IMG_0016 by flubble1986, on Flickr

2StepSteve · 20 Apr 2015 at 22:06

Takeaway Night by SteveRix, on Flickr

stument · 22 Apr 2015 at 08:36

Golden Tiger - Vegas by Stuart-Saunders, on Flickr

Thaifood · 22 Apr 2015 at 20:56

Such majestic animals

paul10 · 24 Apr 2015 at 12:17

The Hawking Centre by paul stuart, on Flickr[url=https://flic.kr/p/sbYpem]

The Hawking Centre by paul stuart, on Flickr[/URL]

JDR82 · 27 Apr 2015 at 13:04

Not had my camera long so still learning everything, was quite happy with these shots from Saturday though, my main struggle I am having shooting local bird life is sharpness its almost like most birds have a fuzz as if I have two slightly over lapped images.

syn3rgy · 27 Apr 2015 at 13:21

a few BW

And The Animals Came in Two

Giraffe

byteagig · 27 Apr 2015 at 21:42

One of my cats :cool:

Zak by Leon van Hese, on Flickr