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That was a cool, unexpected announcement. A lot of the rumor sites were expecting a 300-600 but I think people are going to be stoked to have a Tammy competitor. The speculation is that the Sigma should be a better optical performer because of the larger filter size (105mm vs the Tammy 95mm) but its significantly heavier and probably more expensive. In other good gear news, the Nikon D750 sounds like its gonna be dope as hell for birding. If the rumors about specs and pricing are true, its going to be a $2500 action full frame with a faster burst, competitive AF and better sensor than the 5DIII. Its been really entertaining watching canon fans lose their loving minds over the last few days.
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I was really hoping for a D7200 or something so I could get a high performance crop-sensor body! As it is I might just stick with my D3200 for a while longer and if it doesn't look like Nikon is releasing a high-end crop sensor body I'll just pick up a D7100. I'm (probably) heading to Borneo (Kota Kinabalu) in March so I'd like to be on a better body than the D3200 by then. But yeah, I'm interested to see the weight difference between the Sigma and Tamron. Unless it is significantly heavier than the Tamron (and/or significantly more expensive) I'll probably go for it since for me Sigma is a known quantity and I've had nothing but great experience using the 120-400mm.
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Kenshin posted:But yeah, I'm interested to see the weight difference between the Sigma and Tamron. Unless it is significantly heavier than the Tamron (and/or significantly more expensive) I'll probably go for it since for me Sigma is a known quantity and I've had nothing but great experience using the 120-400mm. Weight: Sigma - 2860 g / 100.88 oz. Tamron - 1951 g / 68.8 oz. So, almost a kilo heavier. More glass = more weight. I wouldn't be holding my breath for any new high end crop camera from Nikon. They don't seem too concerned about answering the 7D/7DII
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Weight: Sigma - 2860 g / 100.88 oz. Tamron - 1951 g / 68.8 oz. Hot drat that's quite the increase. Guess I'd better keep up with my weightlifting schedule. They're going to have to really justify that much more weight with quality (and by not getting the price too much higher than the Tamron).
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Weight is a big negative with all of the new Global Vision Sigma lenses. I think a lot of it is that they are getting sharpness improvements by increasing the image circle so the sensor is seeing more of the center rather than the edges where IQ starts to fall off. That means bigger, heavier glass and they don't really seem concerned about compensating for it elsewhere, like using magnesium for the bodies like Canon does, for instance. Oh well, there's always trade offs for the price, I guess. If it helps, that lens weighs about what my 300 f2.8 does and I'm totally used to carrying that around. It doesn't really feel that heavy after a while.
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Weight is a big negative with all of the new Global Vision Sigma lenses. I think a lot of it is that they are getting sharpness improvements by increasing the image circle so the sensor is seeing more of the center rather than the edges where IQ starts to fall off. That means bigger, heavier glass and they don't really seem concerned about compensating for it elsewhere, like using magnesium for the bodies like Canon does, for instance. Oh well, there's always trade offs for the price, I guess. If it helps, that lens weighs about what my 300 f2.8 does and I'm totally used to carrying that around. It doesn't really feel that heavy after a while. Yeah. I've rented the Nikon 300mm f/2.8 VRII a few times (it's about 100g more than the new Sigma), and don't think I had too much of an issue. I'll probably rent that again this month and make sure I don't mind carrying the weight around, and will just stick with my 120-400mm for longer/steeper hikes where total weight carried becomes an issue. That is of course assuming that the Sigma is a similar price to the Tamron--if it's closer to $1500 I'm less likely to consider it unless it is a vastly superior lens to the Tamron. EDIT: I realize how absurd it is to hook up the Nikon or even this new Sigma to a D3200. 
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Sep 8, 2014 19:29
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Kenshin posted:EDIT: I realize how absurd it is to hook up the Nikon or even this new Sigma to a D3200. Hah, I ran into a guy once when I was out looking for Short Eared Owls that had a Canon 500mm f4 IS VII mounted on a T2i. $10,000 lens, $500 camera.
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Hah, I ran into a guy once when I was out looking for Short Eared Owls that had a Canon 500mm f4 IS VII mounted on a T2i. $10,000 lens, $500 camera. If anything it's been one hell of a lesson for me that the lenses I use are largely more important than the camera body. Not that I wouldn't love better ISO performance, better autofocus, etc, but the quality of lenses and understanding concepts like shutter speed, correct aperture settings, and practice in what lighting I can shoot in have been far more valuable than if I had a higher-end camera body.
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Totally. Bodies come and go, experience and lenses last a lot longer.
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Sep 8, 2014 19:45
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Ruff it is. We've got a couple of them down on the Oregon coast right now, too. I guess there's a buff breasted up near Astoria. If the weather isn't poo poo and it hangs around, I might try to find that guy in the next day or two. I was down there two weekends ago looking for Buff Breasted. Completely missed them only to come home and find out someone had found "at least three" along a beach I had driven that same day. 
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Hey Mallard buddy! Young Mallard by justincook5376, on FlickrI'd also like to contribute to the yellowlegs shots:  Yellowlegs by justincook5376, on FlickrDisappointed my yellowlegs shots didn't come out better, i was super close. They looked good in the viewfinder! Urban invaders need love too:  Rock Dove by justincook5376, on FlickrFinally, a Nuthatch  White-breasted Nuthatch by justincook5376, on Flickr
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Sep 9, 2014 00:05
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Blargh I want a better zoom lens so bad and you folks are not helping! 
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Ok, settling in to the new place in Colorado. No real raptor sightings (dense forest around where I live, gonna have to find some better viewing locations). The local birds are very different from northern Virginia. Stellar's Jays, and they're assholes.  Stellars Jay by torgeaux, on FlickrLots of hummingbird action.  Better shot of hummingbird by torgeaux, on FlickrAnd, these guys. Lots, and lots, like Hitchcock levels of lots of these guys.  Glaring by torgeaux, on Flickr
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torgeaux posted:Stellar's Jays, and they're assholes. All corvids are assholes, but like, the cool assholes that wear leather jackets and are hella mad at society. One time I watched a Cooper's Hawk in a full attack dive totally blindside a Stellar's Jay right out of a tree. The jay straight hosed that hawk up with some crazy ground fighting techniques and sent it packing, cawing after it. Don't gently caress with corvids.
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Can anyone help with ID on this? It was skimming for insects in a freshwater marsh today (near Humboldt Bay in northern California). My first guess was some kind of plover or turnstone, but after looking through guides and GIS, none of them seem like a solid match. 
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Moon Potato posted:Can anyone help with ID on this? It was skimming for insects in a freshwater marsh today (near Humboldt Bay in northern California). My first guess was some kind of plover or turnstone, but after looking through guides and GIS, none of them seem like a solid match. I can't decide if this is a young Franklin's Gull or a Bonaparte's Gull. I'm leaning Bonaparte's.
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BeastOfExmoor posted:I can't decide if this is a young Franklin's Gull or a Bonaparte's Gull. I'm leaning Bonaparte's. A Long-billed Curlew yanking a massive marine worm out of the mud  curlew-worm by Redwood Planet, on Flickr Snowy Egrets squabbling  snowy-fight by Redwood Planet, on Flickr Despite a valiant effort, this pelican failed to turn itself inside out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI-vYO1OHmo Moon Potato fucked around with this message at 09:35 on Sep 9, 2014 |
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BeastOfExmoor posted:I can't decide if this is a young Franklin's Gull or a Bonaparte's Gull. I'm leaning Bonaparte's.
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Slowly going through more Kenya shots. Here's a Grey-headed Kingfisher   Kenshin posted:Gearchat: The guy who lead my safari was a pretty big Canon guy and he was saying that Canon's new 100-400 is coming out soon. Is this true? I haven't heard it anywhere else. Moon Potato posted:Can anyone help with ID on this? It was skimming for insects in a freshwater marsh today (near Humboldt Bay in northern California). My first guess was some kind of plover or turnstone, but after looking through guides and GIS, none of them seem like a solid match.
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InternetJunky posted:The guy who lead my safari was a pretty big Canon guy and he was saying that Canon's new 100-400 is coming out soon. Is this true? I haven't heard it anywhere else. That's been the rumor for like 5 years. If they do update it this year, it'll be a total surprise. The current rumors are for a new 400 f4 DO IS II for some reason. Those pics are dope as poo poo btw.
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800peepee51doodoo posted:That's been the rumor for like 5 years. If they do update it this year, it'll be a total surprise. The current rumors are for a new 400 f4 DO IS II for some reason. I know there's been so many rumours about the 100-400, but the way this guy was talking about it made it sound like the specs were already released. I've stopped listening to all Canon rumours years ago while waiting for the 7D v2 to come out, which has always been "right around the corner".
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InternetJunky posted:I know people seen to have settled on gull for this, but I think the juvi black tern looks exactly like this as well.  (Audubon's image) The behavior was more tern-like than gull-like, too - it was in flight the whole time I was out, making passes around the marsh and skimming for food. Also, holy poo poo that's a beautiful kingfisher.
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I thought Black Tern for a moment because the behavior did indeed sound perfect. I didn't realize how little Black Terns actually looked like Terns. Here's a loving Tern (or two):  Elegant Terns by beastofexmoor, on FlickrReally mediocre lighting and a bad angle, but here's my newest life bird, a Northern Goshawk. Only the second county record in eBird.  Lake Janus Northern Goshawk by beastofexmoor, on FlickrHere's a few from my first pelagic birding trip. Shooting birds from a moving boat in the middle of the ocean is miserable. I have so many out of focus shots  Buller's Shearwater by beastofexmoor, on Flickr  Red Phalaropes by beastofexmoor, on Flickr  Fork-Tailed Storm-Petrels by beastofexmoor, on Flickr
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BeastOfExmoor posted:
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I forgot how long its been since I've pushed photos to Flickr. Here's a bunch more from a work trip I took to the Fargo area in May.  20140519-20140519-_MG_8450.jpg by beastofexmoor, on Flickr  20140519-20140519-_MG_8440.jpg by beastofexmoor, on Flickr  20140519-20140519-_MG_8407.jpg by beastofexmoor, on Flickr 20140519-20140519-_MG_8372.jpg by beastofexmoor, on Flickr 20140520-20140520-_MG_8515.jpg by beastofexmoor, on Flickr  20140520-20140520-_MG_8488.jpg by beastofexmoor, on Flickr  Chestnut-Collared Longspur by beastofexmoor, on Flickr  20140523-20140523-_MG_8615.jpg by beastofexmoor, on Flickr Wilson's Snipe by beastofexmoor, on Flickr Greater Prairie-Chickens by beastofexmoor, on Flickr Canada Warbler by beastofexmoor, on Flickr
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Kenshin posted:EDIT: I realize how absurd it is to hook up the Nikon or even this new Sigma to a D3200. I just bought the tamron in nikon mount. I'm using it on a D5100 and it looks hilarious. It's like those 1/2 pint glasses that are identical proportions to a full pint glass, being held by a gorilla. Now to go find some far away things to take bad pictures of.
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Any guesses on this one? My guess is either a young Coopers or young Sharp Shinned Hawk Coopers or Sharpshinned? by justincook5376, on Flickr Coopers or Sharpshinned? by justincook5376, on Flickr Crow vs. Hawk by justincook5376, on Flickr
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TheMirage posted:Any guesses on this one? My guess is either a young Coopers or young Sharp Shinned Hawk That looks like a northern harrier to me. Especially, considering that it looks like meadows and marsh in the surrounding area -- instead of forest. Northern harriers love to fly like 20 ft off the ground and are best identified by the white band above the tail (called the rump patch).
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I ruled that out because it doesn't have the defining white butt. Here is a pic from the back Hawk Back by justincook5376, on Flickr
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800peepee51doodoo posted:I'd call it a juvie Cooper's. It's too big to be a Sharpie, I think. The head seems farther forward/longer, too. Def not a harrier. Harriers have owlish faces and longer, thinner wings. Accipiters have broadish wings. I was going to say Cooper's as well, if that is a Raven in those pictures like it looks like.
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Coops it is. Thanks all
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That's a handsome young cooper's - nice shots, TheMirage. Apparently that juvi Black Tern I spotted the other day was the first one to be documented at Arcata Marsh since 2006. After I posted it to Facebook, the birders around here went nuts and started showing up in droves to get a look at it. I've had bad luck with being in the right place at the right time to get an interesting shot of it, but I at least got a clearer picture of it as it flew back to its roosting spot on an island today.  black-tern-flight by Redwood Planet, on Flickr The Belted Kingfisher that I've been filming and photographing for a while is getting used to having me around and is letting me get considerably closer to it than it used to.  queenfisher-chatter by Redwood Planet, on Flickr The little splashes here are the smelt freaking out as the kingfisher flies low over the water  queenfisher-smelt by Redwood Planet, on Flickr This is the shot I've been trying to get for the last couple months.  queenfisher-catch by Redwood Planet, on Flickr A Peregrine Falcon flew directly over me on its way to hunt a flock of Greater Yellowlegs  peregrine-soaring by Redwood Planet, on Flickr Moon Potato fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Sep 11, 2014 |
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Moon Potato posted:The Belted Kingfisher that I've been filming and photographing for a while is getting used to having me around and is letting me get considerably closer to it than it used to. Patience is a virtue! Very nice shots!
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Man I need to get in on this cool bird photoing business. All I have are pigeons and more ducks  Even when I get out to the countryside there isn't much variation, and anything cool that I do find flees before I can even get it in range of my 70-300mm.   Mallard by straygiraffe, on Flickr  Pigeon in flight by straygiraffe, on Flickr
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