I was lucky to visit , monitor, study and capture another rare Borneo Endemic , Dulit Frogmouth . A real great tour which need to transit flights, 4 wheel, walking over the bamboo bridge ..
A bird I dream to get it picture for so long .. and finally I got few good open shots while casual shooting while assist Ahli Chung (http://www.endemicguides.com/) for a bird watching group… with his good experience we actually managed to see this bird open but I was away from the team for short moment and I missed the first chance .. and I was lucky saw it again few hours later and managed to have few minutes with it …
I am glad that I have chance to test on this len CANON EF 400mm F4 DO IS 2 … I am here just share some actual test result but not compare to other len … except some simple physical compare to my usual tele len CANON EF 500mm F4 IS2 …
Garnet Pitta with Canon EF 400mm f/4 DO IS II USM Lens +1.4x TC ONLY CLICK PICTURE FOR FULL RESGARNET PITTA 100% from above picture [CLICK picture for FULL RES]
CONCLUSION from basic test in low light condition :
1. AF speed is FAST and as good as my 500mm F4 IS2
2. from the picture and more test result , it is sharp and without any weird bokeh appear
3. the size and weight real small and light (about 700gram different with 500mm F4 IS2)
4. easily handheld 😀
CANON 500mm F4 IS2 [top] CANON 400mm F4 DO IS2 [bottom]Canon EF 400mm f/4 DO IS II USM Lens only 2.3xKG
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Glad that we make another great and happy outing to East Java … thanks everyone that in the outing and hope everyone enjoy and learn something from everyone in the outing …
we spend 50% time at Papuma beach and the remaining @Mount Bromo …
I will slowly update pictures captured from this outing …
update 2015 May 22
– thanks Olympus Malaysia allow me to test their F1.8 fisheye to allow me to capture this
… a cold Milky | 很冷的银河 …
update 2015 May 21
… MilkyRise …
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as most of us concern the hood is over size for our beg .. because of it we need to have bigger beg for travel … Lenscoat come out a solution which is TravelHood … this allow us to keep our hood flat and and carry outside from the beg too ..
one of the best articles describes the difference from Dave Bakewell https://digdeep1962.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/identification-of-paddyfield-richards-and-blyths-pipits-in-malaysia/
201701, Perak, Malaysia
4. Olive-backed Pipit, 树鹨, 樹鷚, Anthus hodgsoni, ビンズイ, APIT-APIT POKOK TIMUR
I like to use CPL on my landscape, and I ask myself do I need one for my birding and based on my understanding … I MUST have one 😀 … and I bought one for test …. (results from last years testing and now only I have time to share this)
beside getting better reflection … I seldom do wader photography … so not rally have test result … but I found it is very useful in the forest ….
let’s picture tell the story
we always have reflective leafs create “white spots” that we really hate to have .. e.g.
without CPL and Background reflective leafs create white spots
that I add in CPL and reduce the flare direction
with CPL rotate it to minimum flare … the white spot gone 😀
or another sample of our GEM of forest Garnet Pitta
without CPL or without rotate CPL to minimum flarewith CPL rotate to minimum flare …
a simple video record while rotating the CPL
you can obviously see how the CPL help me 😀
if you interest on CANON PL-C52 (WII) or NIKON C-PL1L (52mm) feel free to contact me .. as I got limited units available
I am using Taiwan design hide for years , and I loving it due to the Ventilation is good even without expose us (open the center opening for better ventilation) …
without open the center opening big we still look outside the hide and with better Ventilation
(look 1st picture below, from outside view into the hide is camo as well )
(opening can open or close for better view and Ventilation )
(from inside view outside)
**** Extra layer for water/rain resistant (tested can withstand ~5 min of heavy rain ~20min of drizzling.
**** also come with ground layer so we can put our gears on the ground without dirty, scratch easily … also prevent leeches direct onto our leg/body.
as many of my sharing .. CPL is one of the most important filter for me … I use it almost 90% of my landscape photography .. now we also bring you HAIDA 100mmx100mm Square CPL
neutral density filter or ND filter is filter reduce light going to the sensor … so create slower shutter speed …. (normaly what we want) .
previously I only pick Lee Filter ND filters for my photography use as the color cast is minimum and best in the market …. recently many brands come out with their filters (square, screw in .. etc ) and some of them give very acceptable color cast and very good value of money … one of them I test is HAIDA …
based on first test few months back, I found HAIDA ND filters giving warmer cast and Lee actually giving colder cast …. but both are very acceptable and very easy to correct if we want to do so …
below are simple capture
– same ISO, same focus and spot area
– Auto White balance
– AV mode
– timer and all shooting continuously one after another
– direct raw-jpeg from DPP
no FilterND .9 HAIDAND .9 Lee Filter Pro GlassND 1.8 HaidaND 1.8 Lee Filter (Little stopper)ND 3.0 (10 stops) HaidaND 3.0 (10 stops) Lee Filter Big Stopper
from simple capture above , we can see the cast are minimum for both … whether slight warmer or colder than depend on personal preference …
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