[PIC_THREAD] Wildlife, Animals, Birds, Zoo

^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
 
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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
 
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.
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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.
 
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.
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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.
 
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.
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Yeah the split image focusing isn't too bad :) If only stuff was cheaper!
 
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.

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