My Two Favorites from the Land-based Falklands IPT

[David Salem]

That Albie is gorgeous!! Love the detail that 850 captures and your exposre and colors look great. Very nice Artie

 

[gail bisson]

First one for me.
The IQ rocks and I love the color of the blue water.
I wish the lighter band of blue was not at the top of the frame but this is not a big deal.
As you like to say, the whites "are killer",
Gail

 

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks Gail. I hate that strip of sky as well, a product of having to zoom out while being low enough to keep my shadow off the bird's head ...

with love, artie

 

[Alex Becker]

Late to the party so can only really echo everyone else. Love both of them. I think my favorite is the close up. Great detail and exposure. The feathers along the mouth are awesome. TFS, looking forward to seeing more

 

[Ian McLachlan]

Like almost everyone I think the close up simply superb.
But in regard to the second. I don't think you can have the teleconverter on the and be at 6.3 using the Nikon PF. 500 lens, Unless I have misunderstood the info ,if the converter [TC14EIII ] was on the PF then it has to be at f8 . So my question is --was converter ON at f8 or oFF at f6.3? .What is so important about this is whether or not the PF is good enough at 700mm for fast BIF. Say- peregrines .I am hoping that we will get an answer to that soon from the new HH users who have this gear as we cannot even buy the lens in Aust. yet. You seem to have had a great time down there.

 

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks Ian. You are of course correct. This was with the 500 alone. I caught that error on the blog and fixed it. And thanks to you, fixed it here as well. It is nearly impossible to get this lens anywhere ... I have done some flight with the TC-E14 ...

with love, arite

 

[Ian McLachlan]

Thanks Artie. Well like a few others I'm hoping that the 500 pf is sharp /sharp at 700mm . It would solve a lot of problems as one's muscle power inevitably vaporises .Look forward to those frames.
Ian

 

[Arthur Morris]

Ian, It is super sharp at 700mm. Just not sure how good it might be for peregrines. Heck, it was sharp with the Emperor Penguin chicks on a tripod with the TC-E17 ...

with love, artie