1. Black Laughingthrush, 黑噪鹛, 黑噪鶥, Garrulax lugubris, クロガビチョウ, KEKICAU-RAYA HITAM BIASA
– difficult bird to get open, noisy bird
– found this ~700mm from sea level
update 202307
– a very lucky morning with this shy and active bird stay so low and long for everyone good view and picture session
– 非常幸运的一个早上。这么活跃与害羞的鸟，尽然站了这么低这么久让我们看+拍够。
202308, Fraser Hill, Pahang, Malaysia
update 202305
– while we walking for general birding after long wait for the partridge. All of sudden this bird calling from far, we toward the direction and this bird just stand ~10feet from us .. what a lucky day after Malayan Whistling-Thrush, Bamboo Woodpecker, Malayan Hawk-Cuckoo, Mountain Scops Owl and many good birds today.
– newly update it may not belong to the Laughingthrush family
– rare and shy montane Borneo endemic
update 202409
– one of my best moment of 2029, this bird stay close and one of best view of this bird
– 我的2029最好的一刻，这鸟站这个位置真的最好角度看这鸟。
202407, Trusmadi, Sabah, Malaysia
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– another main target of the short trip, it is close and fast .. all of us saw the bird .. but sad my buddies didn’t got the picture of it feeding on “fruit” (think my first time saw this bird eat fruit) …
– the bird moving fast and inside dark bush, 2 of the Z9 failed to got the bird in focus 🙁 lucky me with new R5markii , if bring mark 1 may be also dont have this best moment of this rare bird
– 与朋友的几天，主要目标之一。这鸟来的蛮近的。可是有入常态，动很快，在暗的地方动。朋友们Z9都没办法对上焦（在这站了好几秒大家都看到）。幸好佳能R5Mark ii 好好表现还是对上了几张。这鸟非常害羞，稀有。非常不容易拍照，还加上第一次看到它吃果子（通常吃昆虫）.
202409, Trusmadi, Sabah, Malaysia
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update 202408
– before archive the folder, make another picture one of best moment of 2024. This bird stand here more than 3 minutes … making call.. looking at us ..such a handsome
– one of my favorite birds of Malaysia, it is not that rare just too active to have good view. But when lucky strike, me and David enjoy few minutes of best moment with this bird .. amazing bird to look at
2015 , we finally make another Photohunter trip to Sichuan, CHINA …we travel ~2200km , 12 days , 4600meter from sea level , cold … fun … and we finally make it completed and now let’s share some pictures here
As usual, I will slowly update some important place we visit here …
1. Yading is one of our target place .. a place full with opportunity for photos …
update 2015 Oct 28
… first Light in …… the Cold Morning Reflection …
2. 新都桥
– a small town that we pass by few round to our destination and meals.
– we stop by due to beautiful view of the autumn …
UV-Pro is a unit with deep ultraviolet light-emitting diode (DUV-LED), which emits rays with wavelength shorter than 300nm (UVC). UVC protects cameras and lenses from going moudly by killing bacteria on the coating, destroying their DNA & RNA, thus permanently halting the reproduction.
this is good especially for outdoor photographer always visit high humidity environment. it come either CANON and Nikon mount now, it come with a mounting that can easily mount on the len and camera
a portable device to bringing any where
full charge ~4hours
scan 10 lenses now seem still alring
auto scan after press the light on button ~2 min each scan
One of my favor len, Canon EF TS-E 17mm F4 … it give sharpness, clarify that I love especially pair with new CANON EOS 5d/5Dsr.
The design of this Len limit ourselves to use filter which is my prefer way to shoot landscape … so I start with Order – Lee Filter Adapter Ring for TS-E 17mm.
but due to it’s limitation of shift, it may not perfect solution . I still use this as it can use all my existing 100mm square filters.
recently, Both Lee Filters and Haida provided better solution for CANON TS-E 17mm len. which is 150mm square filter solution. After long wait, finally I have a chance to test the HAIDA 150mm filter solution for TSE17mm. so this is another set of filters, yes real big to be easy handling which is 150mm width ….
but it do allow us without tilt but shift to max on both left-right/top-bottom…..
As previous discussion, Reverse GND or RGND is a filter very important for sunrise/sunset/dusk/dawn moment… I am officially bringing in another RGND brand 84dot5mm ….
again let me share some new picture showing how;s the filter balance the exposure
-without Filter and meter on foreground. so the dusk moment sky is over exp
-without Filter and meter on sky. and now the foreground is under expose
– apply RGND 2 stops … without any HDR, exposure blending, shadow highlight recovery . both foreground and sky with right exposure and details now
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Sample of RGND filter for balance the exposures
update 2016 Jul 5
picture on top without any filter … and bottom with RGND show better sky exposure
without any filter
update 2015 Aug 30
1. RGND 2 stops 2. HAIDA CPL 100×100 3. HADAI ND 0.9 | ISO 200 | 1.0 sec at f / 16 | 18 mm
when we have option, we tend to choose from which is better … better in term of? It come to my mind too , which one to pick and why …. while my Photohunter Tour 2015 Bali , I managed to have both camera with me and have a quick test … but the test as usual a basic test on common interest … more details ? site effect ?
both camera
– ISO100,200,400,800,1600,3200 (also have higher test)
– F16
– MF on the front boat (100% crop picture)
– 2s timer shooting
– M mode
– Auto WB
– CANON EF 24-70 F2.8 II len use
– ACR save pictures , Highlight -21, Shadow 11, Clarity +30 ONLY , Vibrance +10, Saturation +5, no noise reduction, no sharpen
Both camera give much more details compare to previous CANON EOS 5dm3 and it make big different among these 2 cameras (may be you can look at the full size of JPEG for further comment). but 5Dsr just give slight more extra details, contrast but where we almost not noticeable . and not much Moire effect appear over few days testing. may be in future if I notice and will be posting here too
I did a quick and simple test on both new camera that come with big megapix … CANON 5Dsr and SONY A7r2 … both camera use the same len which is CANON EF TS-E 17mm F4 (SONY A7r2 with Viltrox Adapter) , same filter Lee Filter GND .4h and HAIDA 100mmx100mm CPL
we did not use same tripod but put both site by site so the view slight different by ~5 degree different …
both camera
– ISO100
– F13
– MF on the bridge end
– timer shooting
– M mode
– Auto WB
– ACR save pictures , contrast +5, Clarity +10 ONLY .. and no noise reduction
SONY A7r2 ISO200CANON 5Dsr vs SONY A7r2 ISO200 crop100%
2.2 ISO400
CANON 5Dsr ISO400SONY A7r2 ISO400CANON 5Dsr vs SONY A7r2 ISO400 crop100%
2.3 ISO800
CANON 5Dsr ISO800SONY A7r2 ISO800CANON 5Dsr vs SONY A7r2 ISO800 100% crop
2.4 ISO1600
CANON 5Dsr ISO1600SONY A7r2 ISO1600 crop100%CANON 5Dsr vs SONY A7r2 ISO1600 100% crop
*** I do not share any higher than ISO1600 as we can see the quality have been drop since ISO800 … and I think I would limit my use ~1600 for important photo.
Overall , here are some different for me .. (for landscape photography concern)
1. 5Dsr weight ~845 gram vs ~625 gram
2. tilt screen on SONY A7r2
3. Battery life 5Dsr is longer but it is different size
4. both ISO performance about the same (without noise reduction) , 5Dsr have slight more noise and details over ISO800 and about same for under ISO800
5. Shadow and high recovery both perform same .. 100% shadow recovery show acceptable result .
6. SONY seem lost orange/red tone , give more cold color
7. both give good details , and at highlight area CANON give more info
We always want to shoot wider in a lot of situation, but we are lack of filter option previously … and now we have many options offer by various manufacturer ..
now we have tested both Lee Filter SW150 series and HAIDA 150mm filter series … below are filters we tested so far
1. Lee Filter SW150 holder for Nikon 14-24 F2.8
2. HAIDA 150mm holder for Nikon 14-24 F2.8
3. HAIDA 150mm holder for CANON 14mm F2.8 mark2
4. Lee Filter 150x170mm GND series
5. Lee Filter CPL 150mmx150mm
6. Lee Filter Big Stopper
7. HAIDA 150mm CPL
8. HAIDA 150mm ND 3.0/1000 or big stopper
9. HAIDA 150mm ND 1.8/640 or littler stopper
10. HAIDA 150mm ND 3.6 (12 stops ND)
above options and below items are available for order or sale
11. HAIDA Holder solution for SAMYANG 14mm F2.8
12. HAIDA Holder solution for TAMRON 15-30mm F2.8
13. HAIDA Holder solution for CANON TSE-17mm F4
14. HAIDA Holder solution for SIGMA 12-24mm mark2
update 2016 april 27
16. HAIDA Holder solution for Carl Zeiss 15mm F2.8
again we visit Bali, Indonesia for 5days4nights for landscape hunting … we have many fun and incident happen during the trip.(food poison, sick, long walk, steep staircase….)
we have total 11 participants and hope everyone enjoy the Photohunting outing
day 1 – SANUR
we spend our sunrise near Sanur , but I was food poisoning and not able to share with other … sorry for all . I will try to share their picture here after get their permission.
day2/3 – NUSA Penida
we travel to Nusa Penida as you can see from the map, we travel across the sea by ferry ~40min ……
update 2015 Aug 21
– we will on rush on last day so we decided have Sunrise outing near our hotel .. the wave, seaweed plantation, beautiful sky color .. make everyone busy with shutter
