[Leica] Shooting Eagles with the D4 and 80 - 400 VR zoom

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)]

Hi Howard,

Some really nice photos here.  I like the eagle taking off, and the wing 
tips over water shots the best, but all are very good.  You will find you 
can still do some large cropping if needed with the D4, depending on your 
final print size of course.  You will also find the high iso capabilities 
are even better than the D800.  I would also ditch the Nikon strap and get a 
aftermarket strap that will stay on your should better.  I find the Nikon 
straps are worthless, as they never stay on my shoulder.  I have Leica 
straps on my D700, F3 bodies.

Cheers,
Gene

----- Original Message -----
From: "H&E Cummer" <cummer at netvigator.com>
To: lug at leica-users.org
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2014 2:59:44 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: [Leica] Shooting Eagles with the D4 and 80 - 400 VR zoom

Hi Luggers,
Yesterday I went to Otter Bay with the D4 and the 80 400 VR zoom but the 
eagles did not appear.

Today I had more luck - they were there - and I arrived as the Stand owner 
was about to feed them.

I cranked up the D4 - with AFC and 10 fps and fired away - using various 
focus patterns to try and
catch the birds. I was not as successful as I hoped and have asked Luggers 
with D4's off list
for their tips on what focus setting is optimal to capture in focus flying 
birds. Who know who you are!! :-)

Here are the best of today starting with:

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Eagles2014/7334.jpg.html>

Eagle landing on dead tree.

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Eagles2014/7337.jpg.html>

Eagle taking off from the ferry dock

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Eagles2014/7339.jpg.html>

Close up of the flight

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Eagles2014/7340.jpg.html>

Flying at me

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Eagles2014/7394.jpg.html>

Wing tip over water - I really like this reflection kind of shot 

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Eagles2014/7544.jpg.html>

Flying against a blue water background back to the nest.

Please look large. C&C always welcome.

Howard

PS : I would add that processing 16Mp images is much faster on my old I Mac 
computer than 36Mp images from the D800E
but I do miss the vast acreage available for cropping from the 800.


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