Different tools for different purposes... Spent an enjoyable day with my Nikon shooting birding sister. We started the day in a Crane Trust blind before sunrise and ended at Rowe Sanctuary near Gibbon, NE which is a great facility.
My sister is amazing at seeing birds where I'm obivious. It was great "exercise" for me and a got a few keepers (but nothing special). We had a pair of coyotes come into frame while shooting Great Blue Herons on the Platte River. Unfortunately, on the opposite shore. A middle morning visit to Fort Kearny turned up little, but good exercise trying to capture fast-moving Ruby Throated Kinglets eating the last elderberries on a bush/tree. Also a single cormorant keeping his distance in the Platte River. Later, on the way to Rowe we had a photogenic posing adult Osprey and an immature Bald Eagle enjoying lunch at the top of a tall power pole. At Rowe we discovered some deluxe blinds on the river and a tall above the trees blind, open to the public (Filed for future use.) We also got a distant shot of a Kingfisher, some black terns and our closest view of a Great Blue Heron in the river. Used multiple techniques (AF, MF, etc.) and learned a lot. I certainly see the appeal of the superzooms like the Nikon P900 with its 2000mm equiv (search YouTube for HD video from it). With the K-3 and an extreme crop I"m only using a fraction of the sensor anyway... plus the lightness of the P900 would be a real plus.Unfortunately, no RAW... JPEG only... but still... -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
