Z9 detail with 600PF and 100-400mm lenses - text below should be 600PF

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Marion Anstis

Marion Anstis

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I have been very impressed with the detail and sharpness with both the 500PF (pied cormorant in flight) and 100-400mm f5.6 lens on the Z9. The King Parrot is a wild bird (Sydney, Australia) which perched on my deck outside, and I never feed the birds in my garden. But he was curious and waited for me to race inside and grab my camera! In the past, cameras have struggled with rich red colours like this bird has, but here it is super accurate - see text below...
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without much loss of feather detail, considering that this was taken at 10,000 ISO and 1/1250 shutter, f6.3. And although I did some slight NR in the background, it didn't need much! The cormorant was using the 600mm PF at 1/2000s, f8 and ISO 200. SO pleased with the sharpness and detail. I hope the posting shows this OK. The high res .tif files look fine.
 
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Lovely shots of the King Parrot and also the Cormorant.

I get King Parrots visiting me here in Sydney as well, I had 8 one day! I also get a pair of Galahs and they recently brought their young one as well. I do occasionally feed them all some sunflower seeds which they appreciate. On one occasion, well before I ever fed them, a King Parrot came into our home and sat on my Grandson's toy cooktop. Luckily, I did have some seeds which I put on a timber dish and he hopped on and I carefully took him outside - I didn't want to spook him as he may have panicked and flown into a window. King Parrots are such lovely natured birds, never aggressive and generally happy to be about humans. I've also got lots of photos of them.
 
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Marion Anstis said:
I have been very impressed with the detail and sharpness with both the 500PF (pied cormorant in flight) and 100-400mm f5.6 lens on the Z9. The King Parrot is a wild bird (Sydney, Australia) which perched on my deck outside, and I never feed the birds in my garden. But he was curious and waited for me to race inside and grab my camera! In the past, cameras have struggled with rich red colours like this bird has, but here it is super accurate - see text below...
View attachment 89297View attachment 89298View attachment 89299without much loss of feather detail, considering that this was taken at 10,000 ISO and 1/1250 shutter, f6.3. And although I did some slight NR in the background, it didn't need much! The cormorant was using the 600mm PF at 1/2000s, f8 and ISO 200. SO pleased with the sharpness and detail. I hope the posting shows this OK. The high res .tif files look fine.
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Excellent Marion👍👍
 
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Lance B said:
Lovely shots of the King Parrot and also the Cormorant.

I get King Parrots visiting me here in Sydney as well, I had 8 one day! I also get a pair of Galahs and they recently brought their young one as well. I do occasionally feed them all some sunflower seeds which they appreciate. On one occasion, well before I ever fed them, a King Parrot came into our home and sat on my Grandson's toy cooktop. Luckily, I did have some seeds which I put on a timber dish and he hopped on and I carefully took him outside - I didn't want to spook him as he may have panicked and flown into a window. King Parrots are such lovely natured birds, never aggressive and generally happy to be about humans. I've also got lots of photos of them.
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Thanks Lance, agree, they are wonderful birds, we are so lucky to have them. Amazing story about the tame one that came into your home!
 
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Makes me want to go to Australia. Particularly pleased to see the excellent resolution on the 100-400mm shots as these two lenses are what I’m planning to travel with along with a wide angle. The detail and contrast on the 600pf are superb in my opinion.
 
Since you put it in for critique, what sort of feedback were you interested in?
 
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