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Subject: [Leica] The Hummers are back!
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:25:05 +0530
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Wonderful shots - the noise will disappear if you down sample the D800E
files to 12MP (-: The noise is only more apparent because you are seeing a
much, much bigger image at 100%.
Cheers
Jayanand


On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 11:46 PM, H&E Cummer <cummer at netvigator.com> 
wrote:

> Hello Luggers,
> We were so late this year getting the cabin open (water line problems)
> that I thought I might have missed establishing our fuchsias on the
> hummingbirds' feeding patterns.
> Thankfully I was wrong and they have started to show up - very early
> morning (5:30 am) and late evening (7 - 7:30 pm). This makes for
> challenging light conditions
> for a 300mm Nikkor f4.0 with a 2 X extender on the D800E. Still we are
> having some success and hope for more and better over the summer.
>
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/PenderBirds/1LegJuncoW.jpg.html
> >
>
> http://tinyurl.com/lu2n8ok
>
> I caught this Junco standing on one leg while waiting for the hummingbirds.
>
> and here is a female approaching the far fuchsias.
>
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/PenderBirds/HumLftWngForW.jpg.html
> >
>
> http://tinyurl.com/l2b7u5k
>
> A close up cropped from about a quarter of the frame:
>
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/PenderBirds/HummerUpw.jpg.html
> >
>
> http://tinyurl.com/lk57d5p
>
> and a close up of feeding:
>
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/PenderBirds/HumwgForW.jpg.html
> >
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ljwfof2
>
> There is more noise at ISO 6400 with the D800E compared to the D700 but the
> ability to crop from so many pixels is very helpful. Noise reducing
> suggestions in CS6 would be welcomed.
>
> C&C always welcome. Please look large too.
>
> Howard
>
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