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I am using Energizer Recharable, so the eneloops will give mequicker fire power?
I would not expect them to be different in terms of flash recycle times. The eneloops have lower self-discharge (meaning you don't have to charge them the day before you use them), and better longevity (more recharge cycles - current ones are rated to 1500 charge cycles).
The faster recharge of the 430EX II is simply due to it's lower output, which requires a smaller capacitor. The 4 batteries dischare at the same rate in either flash, so the smaller capacitor fills faster.
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I would not expect them to be different in terms of flash recycle times. The eneloops have lower self-discharge (meaning you don't have to charge them the day before you use them), and better longevity (more recharge cycles - current ones are rated to 1500 charge cycles).
The faster recharge of the 430EX II is simply due to it's lower output, which requires a smaller capacitor. The 4 batteries dischare at the same rate in either flash, so the smaller capacitor fills faster.
That makes me wonder:
When in a blind, like at the bird feeder, if it wouldn't be better to have several 430ex II set up remotely than one 580ex II on camera. That might give more flash for second and third shots.
Because it has less power I am not to comfortable with the thought of the 430ex II on camera as a main flash for the 500mm yet.
It also brings in to question when using two diffrent flashes, what happens when your set up remote andthey both fire and the 430ex is ready for the second shot and the 580 isn't.. It makes me wonder if it is wise to mix one flash with a diffrent one in this situation. I guess I get to answer this question in a few days when I try them both together again. So far I only have tried them together once in the field, and I had problems with the 430ex working. After much reasearch I found that if you plug the pocketwizard in to the 430ex II backwards that it will not function, imagine that revelation.
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After much reasearch I found that if you plug the pocketwizard in to the 430ex II backwards that it will not function, imagine that revelation.
Great tip. I'll file that one away for future reference... [;)]
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Now if someone knows if there is a battery pack that can recharge fast enough to do multiple shots in the burst, I would like to know what it is.
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Rick,
There are couple of good options : Canon makes a battery pak that holds 8 AA cells and Quantum Turbo makes a rechargeable pak that gets great reviews but is very expensive.
The better beamer does save battery power because of the way it projects light it tends to require less flash power so if you set the flash to less than full output it recycles even faster .....it's proportional to the power setting.
Joel
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A Red Bellied Woodpecker from the back yard setup......
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Beautiful bird photo, Adrian! I wish I could get a few colorful bird shots like that!
All the woodpecker photos make me very envious! I keep hearing one near my yard but I haven't laid eyes on him yet!
Here's one shot of a goldfinch visitor I had today ...
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5023/...ca221fa41b.jpg
and my daily visitor, the mourning dove ...
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5172/...f54fbe1dd4.jpg
Denise
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Photographed this purple gallinule this morning. Everglades national park is such an amazing place for bird photography.
50D 100-400mm @ 260mm, F.5.6, 1/800th, ISO 640
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Nice photo's everyone!
Here is a Mourning Dove from me. This was taken under very chalenging condition, it wouldn't let get close so I had to use my 2X extender, the light was demishing and overcastso I had to use 12,800 ISO and I didn't bring my tripod. But I used aladder which worked quite well actually.
Enough background here's the photo!
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60D, 400th sec, 12,800 ISO, focussed in live view 10X mode, processed in DXO and downrezed in DPP.
Cheers,
John.
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John,
I think the detail and relative lack of noise at iso 12,800 is awesome!
Did you use noise reduction in DXO?
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Denise,
I like this one alot ... good pose and head angle, nice and sharp, well exposed and in nice light......I would crop some off the bottom so the branch is not in the center of the frame and I would try to darken the bright streak in the background above and to the left of the bird
Joel
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A Black Capped Chickadee in the yard, !DMKIII + 300 f/2.8 + 1.4TC
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Perfect exposure and composition on the chickadee, Joel!
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Denise,
I like this one alot ... good pose and head angle, nice and sharp, well exposed and in nice light......I would crop some off the bottom so the branch is not in the center of the frame and I would try to darken the bright streak in the background above and to the left of the bird
Joel
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Ok, you got me to fiddle around with PSE which I am still a struggling newbie at! I may have gotten carried away with adjusting the background but here's the revised version ...
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5171/...69409043e6.jpg
Improvement or should I have left well enough alone? I tried a few different ways of adjusting that lighter streak and my attemps failed. Now I think I may have made the background too dark (?)
Denise
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John, very impressive noise control!
Denise, I think you did very good adjustment of recomposing the bird and removing the lighter streak. and the darker BG doesn't bother me at all.good work!
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Joel,
Yes, I used DxO's noise reduction and adjusted the colors to in it. If you didn't use DxO yet you should really try it.
I really like your chicadee!
John.
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Improvement or should I have left well enough alone?
Yessss!!!! ...... that's more like it .....very good [:D]
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Great suggestion Joel, and well executed Denise!
Rich
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A Song Sparrow (backyard setup as usual)
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Great shot Joel! I can tell you didn't use a flash, sometimes in difused lighting a flash can make things worse.Not like I'm telling you anything you don't know.[:P] Unless youdid a really good job not showing it.
Keep up the great work!
John.
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Great suggestion Joel, and well executed Denise!
Rich
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Thanks!! [:D]
I'm learning! It's been a rainy day so I have practiced a few things today in PSE. By George, I may just be getting the hang of it!
Denise
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Now if I could get results like your song sparrow, Joel ...I
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...I'd be one estatic person! Nice job!
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Why do you want to be so bendy?
Ohh no that's elastic, isn't it?
Seriously, the posts on this thread just get better and better.
Thanks for sharing the wisdom Joel and for the images from you and other contributors.
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Some Chickadees and a Red-Breasted Nuthatch found along the Lime Kiln trail, Ottawa, ON. Click through for full exif.
First two are 24-105mm F4L @ 105mm. On Flickr as 1024 wide.
Second two are 85mm f/1.8. These are only 800 wide.
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All of your shots are fantastic, David but the last one is absolutely awesome!! I wish the chickadees in my yard were so friendly!
Denise
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Thanks Denise. The chickadees in town won't come up to you. But drive to a trail 10 minutes from town and they'll follow you down the path. I read somewhere that chickadees need to eat fairly frequently just to remain alive, and they enter some sort of suspended animation state at night. This makes them a bit braver about finding food. Often groups of 4 or 5 coming to feed at the same time. In winter you can have more than a dozen swarming around you, all desperate for food. You'll need to be out during the day, because as soon as dusk starts to fall, they'll all disappear.
You can see a thumb holding up the dish on the nuthatch image, showing that they'll come up pretty close too. They'll often join the chickadees in landing on your hand (or head) to feed.
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Have tried to take some more pictures of smaller birds since got the 500mm, still not many keepers, here are two of them.
7D, 700mm
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Very nice JJ! I like them very much. If you wan
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thanks John for the nice words, really appreciate it!
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JJphoto
Those are very nice. The second one is very colorful.
I am not sure what kind of bird it is but it looks good.
Rick
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Really appreciate your kind words Rick!
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I am not sure what kind of bird it is but it looks good.
I am not good at birds ID, and want to know what that is too, can anybody help? thanks.
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The second is an American Kestrel, don
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The first one looks to me like a juvenile male Vermillion Flycatcher. I may be off though. Where are the photos from JJ?
as john said, the second one is an american kestrel.
Great Pictures by the way, the kestrels
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I just googled "juvenile Vermillion Flaycatcher". It sure looks like it, if you have a picture of it in the front that would make it much easier to tell.
John.
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yeah it would be way easier to tell from the front side. I don
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The first one looks to me like a juvenile male Vermillion Flycatcher
I didn't think this little guy has a such long name[:D]
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Where are the photos from JJ?
San Bernardino county, Southern California.
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the kestrels' eye looks a bit strange to me though.
yeah, you caught me,Nick!, it's eye was at least 1 1/3 stop under exposed[:$]. this was the result after I selectively brightened the eye . it does look strange to me too.
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The first one looks to me like a juvenile male Vermillion Flycatcher
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well the name is just Vermillion Flycatcher, but it doesn't look like a normal one because it is still in its first year, and so it doesn't look like a normal adult male.
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Where are the photos from JJ?
San Bernardino county, Southern California.
That pretty much confirms it then, seeing as Vermillion Flycatchers only range in the us is the south west.
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Alright I wouldn't consider this my "best" bird shot. But I think this is a cool bird. A much more rarely seen and photographed one anyway. Took this photo yesterday morning.
American Bittern
50D, 100-400mm @ 400mm, f5.6, 1/1250, ISO 200
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