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09-Jun-2023 Alastair Norcross

18 Spread Your Wings and Take the Sky

Boulder, CO

Added the RF 1.4X extender to the 100-400, to give a FF equivalent FOV of 900mm. It's an amazingly lightweight combo, considering the reach.

Canon EOS R7 ,Canon RF100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM
1/2000s f/11.0 at 560.0mm iso2000 full exif

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Canon Image Challenge13-Jun-2023 14:16
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Dave
Canon Image Challenge12-Jun-2023 03:32
Red-winged blackbirds are common around me (which was why I was curious about it being banded). They like swampy areas with reeds and have a distinctive summertime call.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge11-Jun-2023 18:17
Thanks Paul. Google photos says it's a Red-Winged Blackbird. We have a few of them around here. I have other pictures of one taken at a different location in Boulder.
Alastair
Canon Image Challenge11-Jun-2023 13:27
Very impressive capture love the head angle. Are you able to ID the bird, looks to be a red winged black bird to me. Paul
Canon Image Challenge11-Jun-2023 03:52
Very very nice capture. The sun on his right is just about perfect.
Canon Image Challenge10-Jun-2023 23:51
The bird is definitely banded. I put a closeup of the band from a different shot from the same sequence in Pending.
Alastair
Canon Image Challenge10-Jun-2023 23:25
Thanks. I am very impressed with the quality of Canon's cheaper lenses. I have also read great things about the 600mm and 800mm F11 primes. For me, the size and weight advantage is almost as big as cost. I used to use my 70-200 F2.8L IS II with the EF 2X extender to get to 400mm, but it was just so big and heavy that I rarely tried to take bird pictures with it (I used the bare lens a lot for sports, which I also do with my RF version of that lens, which is smaller and lighter). I did try out the Tamron 100-400 for a while. That's fairly affordable, and certainly smaller and lighter than the Canon versions. But even so, it was just a bit too big and heavy for me to want to walk around with it. This RF 100-400 is really amazingly light. The main reason that people use the higher-priced long lenses is for the faster apertures. But modern sensors and software make that less of an advantage these days. You do still get better background separation with faster lenses, but it's not worth the size, weight, and expense, at least for me.
Alastair
Guest 10-Jun-2023 21:42
Makes me wonder why we should bother with the higher-priced editions of Canon's RF lenses.
Guest 10-Jun-2023 19:14
This is a damned fine picture. I was impressed from the moment I saw it and your combination of using the tele extender really was smart. More to the point, I don't see much degradation in the image. It is just good. best wishes, traveller
Canon Image Challenge10-Jun-2023 18:37
Very nice. I like the blurred wingtips. He appears to be banded.

Dave