Recent content by Shoreline

Thanks for taking the time out to do this. Those are exactly the type of shots I've been waiting to see. Some matching x 1.6 upscaled shots from the 1DX would be interesting but I'm more interested in the noise patterns of the 7DII at various ISOs and these shots show it to good effect. I've...

As above. Bought a few from Amazon for my non 'L' leneses and they all fit perfectly well in nornal and 'reverse' positions. :thumbs:

Also using Sandisk Extreme but only 8GB. I do a lot of Birds in Flight at high fps, usually in short bursts of around 8 - 10 and generally don't notice any issues, although there was one occasion when I thought I detected a slight slowing down but it was a fairly long continuous burst of around...

:lol: I feel your pain. I'm seriously considering investing in one of the 'super' telephoto lenses but weighing up all the pros & cons of each variable is brain damage. As for over-heating? ... I can't say it's something I've experienced. I did used to have the odd problem filling the buffer...

Hmmm... I think the shutter on the 7D is quite noisey if I'm honest - at least as noisey as my 550 if not more so. Of course it's subjective and I appreciate what you're saying about it being amplified being stuck to my face but it does sound a bit like a machine gun on full burst. A Fox can...

I 'upgraded' from a 550 (which I've kept) to a 7D last year primarily for the additional AF options which I make extensive use of shooting wildlife - mostly birds and BIFs. I still take the 550 out with me sometimes to save changing lenses 'in the field'. I would say that there is no...

Thanks for the replies everyone. I think the bottom line is that I just need to find a way to get closer to some of my subjects but there are so many places where I can see the birds but where it is impossible to get any closer due to the laws of trespass etc :nono: It is so frustrating...

Hi, please forgive me if this is a dumb question but could someone give me a definitive answer to the following question please? I currently use a 7D + 400mm f5.6 for wildlife shots. I can get great images in good light if the subject distance isn't too far away (obviously). My question is...

I think I'll give up.

For what it's worth they don't look at all noisy on my monitor. I can see noise in the sky in some of my own images where I'm shooting birds with a 400mm against an overcast grey sky so I know how bad it can look but there is nothing like that in yours - on my monitor. I think your work is...

Yep, got that, thanks :thumbs: The problem is that when I've been cropping my original files I've been using the select tool to just draw a freehand rectangle encompasing the portion of the image that I want; ie I haven't been paying any attention to dimensions or ratios because I've only been...

Thank you very much for that quick and helpful reply Stratman. Much appreciated. All I need to do now is pluck up the courage to post some pics in the Bird section. Re cropping; I have to crop all my images quite severly because I still can't get close enough to the birds so I rarely start...

Hello, I have read about 10 different explanations of how to do this but I still cannot find a definitive answer that I can understand so I'm posting this in desparation hoping that someone can set me straight. My 7D puts out an image measuring 5184 x 3456 pixels on current settings. Let's...

Been lurking for a while so thought it was about time I registered. Fairly new to digital photography, although I had a lot of fun with my Practica MTL III in the 1980s. Bought a Canon 550d this summer and very quickly developed a bit of an obsession with photographing the sea birds along the...