Nice pictures! I have been looking for one for some time. They went for
$280 - 360 on eBby for a while but recently some guy bid $500 and since then
the price seems to hoover around that value.
J
>
> Hi all
>
> As mentioned a day or so ago, I spent about an hour trying the 500 / E-1
> combo on birds and in that time took about 50 shots.
>
> Here are three
> http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/photography/zuikoholics/little-pied-shag.jpg
> 177 kb
> http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/photography/zuikoholics/red-billed-gull.jpg
> 107 kb
> http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/photography/zuikoholics/geese.jpg
> 393 kb
>
> The images were all re-sized and tarted-up with Irfanview; I took the
> sharpening one step too far with the gull and the feral geese.
> Gitzo 320 Studex tripod, not extended, and no self-timer ( I think next
> time I
> will use at least the 2 second delay)
> Distances were about 40 m for the gull and 50 the shag, and maybe 70m for
> the geese. They were rather shy and I think somebody had already been
> trying to make Christmas dinner out of them, They are this year's
> nestlings
> from somewhere else in the city and flew into a local "canal".
>
> Brian
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