Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/08/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wildlife wise, the best encounter of our Canada trip was with a large pod of playful feeding Pacific White-sided Dolphin at the waters around Campbell River in British Columbia. They were great to see, and I spent a lot of time taking a break from photography, just looking at them frolicking. This trip I had decided to borrow Howard Cummer's Fuji 100-400, and stick with a Fuji X-T2 for the whole trip, not taking my Nikon equipment at all, so that I could evaluate the mirrorless kit for action sequences. It was a decision I came to regret quite early on - I was getting around 10% of focused images, on High Speed tracking mode, compared to my normal hit rate of around 80% with the Nikon kit. In other words, a no contest for action sequences, though as you would expect, it was perfectly fine for static shots. Mirrorless still has some way to go, on both focus acquisition and tracking in high speed mode, and I am not going to repeat the experiment anytime soon! Here are some dolphin captures, then, and they are all different ones! Front On: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/Canada-20170729-3366.jpg.html Explosion: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/Canada-20170729-3585.jpg.html Leap: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/Canada-20170729-3382.jpg.html Arch: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/Canada-20170729-3374.jpg.html Re-entry: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/Canada-20170729-3376.jpg.html I posted two of these, because I cannot make up my mind which is better! Synchronized Swimming 1: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/Canada-20170729-3086.jpg.html Synchronized Swimming 2: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/Canada-20170729-3087.jpg.html Dolphin Dance: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/Canada-20170729-3579.jpg.html Please see LARGE. Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome Cheers Jayanand