few months ago my friend introduce to me “DxO PureRaw 2” for very good noise reduction. I am bit busy last few months and finally I have time download to check out ISO performance of Fujifilm XH2-S , CANON R7 which both APS-C sensor which most the users concern on ISO performance. But we know when smaller sensor normally has more noise with bigger sensor camera (with same megapixel). Too bad both camera raw files are not supported by the DxO PureRaw 2. But I decide to make a simple test with CANON R5 & A1
2. Common Iora, 黑翅雀鹎, 黑翅雀鵯, Aegithina tiphia, ヒメコノハドリ, KUNYIT-KECIL BIASA
– common at beautiful song bird near urban, mangrove
201710, Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia
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3. Great Iora, 大绿雀鹎, 大綠雀鵯, Aegithina lafresnayei, オオヒメコノハドリ, KUNYIT-KECIL SAYAP HITAM
– rareness among 3 species, overall bigger and longer beak
– normally like Green Iora feeding and action near the canopy
马来西亚较稀有的。较大，嘴也大。
update 202404
– still clearing hdd and this moment remind me my best time spent with my buddies .. hope I have time to go out with them more. Very lucky to see the adult keep feeding the young
– 还在清理2022的旧照片。这照片是鱼一帮朋友无忧无虑的看鸟看到，幼鸟在等成鸟来喂。朋友等等我。
202206, Ulu Langat, Selangor, Malaysia
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update 202401
– after years, revisit a special location where we spent ours time Pandemic lockdown time. Surprise to heard this bird call and very soon we got to see it so well … amazing beautiful tree and bird
– what a lucky day, while we having our casual birding we saw the juvenile standing at a low branch waiting to be feed. Even we got stint by hornet and leech bite… but all of us still waiting for the moment and reward with this not so common bird with some good feeding pictures and videos.
– casual morning, when heard the call I thought I may hear wrong
– 轻松的早上。当我在这听到这鸟叫，还以为我听错。
202204, Ulu Langat, Selangor, Malaysia202204, Selangor, Malaysia
update 202203
– a wonderful & casual morning with my buddies again. noisy fellow keep making call until we see it stay long for us
– 与好朋友的美好早上。这鸟，叫不停。
202203, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
update 202110
– another day with “Iora wave” with 3 species of Iora feeding high up. So I am trying hard to find this special one. finally one is stop for few second for picture opportunity
– 遇上雀鹎鸟浪，可是都高高在上。听到这只较稀有的鸟，幸好看到它停了几秒。
202110, Selangor, Malaysia
update 202105
– Malaysia rareness Iora, biggest in size too.
– overall black-top and yellow-below. Wing without any white- 馬來西亞較稀有的雀鵯。
– 較大型。身上-黑綠。下半身-黃。
– as usual, have my casual birding in Kuala Lumpur surrounding forest (cannot cross state due to Pandemic covid-19 lockdown) – lucky day to see ~17 Green Iora (which originally attract my attention), 2 common iora, and 2 Great Iora in the same tree.
– 因为疫情不能过州。只能在附近森林，看看鸟。非常幸运的遇到马来西亚3种雀鹎。
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– 2nd encounter, but this time high up and keep making alert call.
– a not-so-common bird at Selangor and lucky to finally got to see it again.
– 第二次見到他。站高高，一直叫不停。
– 在這。蠻稀有的鳥種。
202104, Gunung Nuang, Selangor, Malaysia
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– another lucky moment when I have my easy morning walk with my light setup. follow the bird wave this bird just appears quick come and go.
– 又一个幸运的早上。它跟鸟浪一起冲冲的来，冲冲的走。
202104, Hulu Langat, Selangor, Malaysia
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– a slightly bigger iora and obvious bigger bill and making a lot of noise
– 比起马来西亚另2种雀鹎较大，也很吵。
202103, Hulu Langat, Selangor, Malaysia
update 202103
– as usual, have my casual birding in Kuala Lumpur surrounding forest (cannot cross state due to Pandemic covid-19 lockdown)
– lucky day to see ~17 Green Iora (which originally attract my attention), 2 common iora, and 2 Great Iora in the same tree.
finally on hand with production Canon EOS R5 for 2 days. managed to test standard function, ISO performance, Raw file capability (Shadow and highlight recovery) and AF : Animal eye tracking on birds
For wildlife Photographers, few things about AF bordeing us : AF speed, AF accuracy, AF tracking capability
*** yet to have time setup screen capture to show the R5 AF capability and hope I can make one to show
for the 2 days bird photography with the R5
Day1 : standard shooting experience, Handheld IS capability , ISO, Shadow and Highlight recovery
Day2 : I shooting Tv mode , Full Animal eye tracking
Here, I will sharing real Tropical forest field experience on using the R5 … few simple conclusions before start some sharing
1. the AF to lock the object
i. normal condition – EOS 1Dx m2 definitely faster and R5 is faster than my 5D mark4
ii. low light condition – EOS1Dx m2 faster , R5 is good compare to 5Dmark4
iii. back light condition with shadow highlight backgroup (not just pure sky)
– EOS1Dx m2 faster, 5Dm4 slow but R5 seem can’t really look for the object (small object on the overall frame) . the R5 just can’t get the lizard or the trunk nearby to focus for long (and I am still looking single button to change AF to MF peaking to solve this easy .
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2. Animal Finding — > Eye Tracking
– I was amaze by A9 with 600mm FE year back where my guest using it to find the the bird !!! As long as we point the camera and len toward bird direction with some minor complex object (with pure sky there are no problem at all) the A9 will automatic found the bird and keep tracking it !!!!!
so I also try to use R5 , I know where is the bird and point R5 with EF-R adapter 500mm EF IS4 II toward the direction . the Camera did found the tiny flowerpecker if it move/jump but it stay and just moving it’s body .. I still can’t depend the R5 help me find where’s the bird yet …
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Tracking : this TOTALY change my thought of Mirrorless camera !!!!
As long as I can find , focus the bird (use shutter button focus the bird) than I use the AF-on (configure to Animal eye focus) it will track the bird head/eye in any conditions : dark, backlight, moving, flying small object etc
Even, the Green Iora is far and small in this case. After I got the bird focus and press AF-On button, the eye tracking just work seamless (no matter it change head direction, jumping etc)
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situation where birds flying with plain sky … it is incredible fast to get the camera to focus on the bird .. as long shutter speed fast enough , shooting swiftlet is like “makan kacang putih” (Malaysian say) …. picture below .. point my camera and len toward sky with any bird , and press the AF-On button which is Animal-eye tracking than within very short moment it will lock the bird and fire shutter ….
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We always do have problem shooting bird in flight when bird flying toward us with speed . the AF not easy to lock the object firmly , even yes we need luck , high skill (camera and tripod handling) to have higher success rate for Bird in Flight toward us .. which is different from side way flying which many way can make higher success rate
Very lucky day, we have this Owl for us to try the animal-eye tracking AF … with condition
– bird flying from about 200m toward us about 20-30m toward us and than to right
– Canon EOS R5, R-EF adapter , Canon 600mm F4 IS2
– Tv mode set to Auto ISO, 1/2000
– This test , using single focus get the bird focus when it flying toward us than using Animal-eye tracking for full sequence shooting of ~3s
– Mechanical shutter
– among 29 frame pictures captured , only 1 frame missed and 1 not capture correct (due to moving my camera slower than the bird flying)
simple video show how each the bird flying toward us
each frame as below 2048px
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