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Apr 1, 2019 08:00:24   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
The cocks-of-the-rock are found in tropical and subtropical rainforests of South America, close to rocky areas, where they build their nests. The bird exhibits sexual dimorphism: the males are bright orange or red; the females (shown here) are overall brownish.

Brookfield Zoo, Nov 2018

Cock of the Rock by Paul Sager, on Flickr


The blue-gray tanager is a medium-sized South American songbird of the tanager family. Its range is from Mexico south to northeast Bolivia and northern Brazil. They live mainly on fruit, but will also take some nectar and insects.

Brookfield Zoo, Nov 2018

Blue-gray tanager


The 300mm lens is one of the most popular focal lengths with professional and serious amateurs. The Canon FD 300mm f/2.8L was one of the most highly regarded manual super tele lenses in the 1980s. The FD 300 f/2.8L was classified as an ultra high-performance lens, with a fluorite element and UD (Ultra-Low Dispersion) glass. The fluorite crystals were artificially grown to the size needed for use in photographic lenses. The combined flourite and UD elements were combined to address chromatic aberration that often affects the performance of long focal length lenses. Canon was the first lens manufacturer to eliminate secondary spectrum by employing fluorite crystals in the FD 300mm f/2.8L and FD 300mm f/4L lenses.

Images shown in the post use a Canon FD 300mm f/2.8L coupled with a Canon Teleconverter 1.4X creating a 420mm lens. Using a Metabones FD to E adapter, the lens and teleconverter were mounted to a Sony a7II mirrorless digital body. Although the Sony body features 5-axis image stabilization, the camera / lens were mounted to a tripod via a Gimbal head. The image files were processed Lightroom v6 and Topaz DeNoise v6.

Canon New FD 300mm f/2.8L


The sunbittern is found in Central and South America. When they feel threatened, they display their large wings, that exhibit a pattern that resembles eyes

Lincoln Park Zoo, Dec 2018

Sunbittern


Inca terns breed on the rocky cliffs along the ocean coasts of Peru and Chile. The sexes are similar; the adult is mostly slate-grey with white restricted to the facial plumes. Immature birds are purple-brown (shown here), and gradually develop the facial plumes.

Lincoln Park Zoo, Dec 2018

Inca Tern


The hamerkop is a medium-sized wading bird found in Africa, Madagascar and Arabia, living in a wide variety of wetlands. The species is renowned for its enormous nests, several of which are built during the breeding season. Unusual for a wading bird, their nest has an internal nesting chamber where the eggs are laid. Both parents incubate the eggs and raise the chicks.

Lincoln Park Zoo, Dec 2018

Hamerkop


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Apr 1, 2019 08:04:51   #
scaudill Loc: Rock Hill, SC
 
Beautiful images

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Apr 1, 2019 08:30:45   #
Country Boy Loc: Beckley, WV
 
Outstanding series!

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Apr 1, 2019 08:42:14   #
fbeaston Loc: Vermont
 
Another great series ... thanks for sharing. Love those tack sharp shots.

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Apr 1, 2019 08:56:07   #
jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana
 
Nice birds, and that’s some lens!

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Apr 1, 2019 09:00:38   #
MSW
 
nice shots!

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Apr 1, 2019 09:07:32   #
imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida
 
NICE ! - Long live the Canon FD's !......thanks for sharing

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Apr 1, 2019 09:17:41   #
olemikey Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida
 
Your work on these is beautiful Paul, very nice captures, and love the "in your face" closeups. I know a lot of folks don't like dealing with "old" manual lenses, let alone adapters, but that setup shines!! The Metabones is a mechanical adapter, no glass, is that correct?

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Apr 1, 2019 09:39:29   #
photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA
 
Fine bird images.

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Apr 1, 2019 10:35:20   #
kpmac Loc: Ragley, La
 
Really nice, Paul.

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Apr 1, 2019 11:14:42   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
olemikey wrote:
Your work on these is beautiful Paul, very nice captures, and love the "in your face" closeups. I know a lot of folks don't like dealing with "old" manual lenses, let alone adapters, but that setup shines!! The Metabones is a mechanical adapter, no glass, is that correct?

Thank you olemikey! Yes, this is the open metal donut Metabones. Nothing but an 'arm' to hold the aperture and no glass. I was going to get rid of all my FD lenses as I was finding my film results were not sharp enough. Without the focus assist of a 100% zoom from a mirrorless EVF or a DSLR live view, I can't manually focus as well as I can with (most) autofocus lenses.

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Apr 1, 2019 11:21:14   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
imagemeister wrote:
NICE ! - Long live the Canon FD's !......thanks for sharing

Thank you Larry! I had the f/4 version, but found it wasn't compatible with the FD version of the 1.4x extender. Last fall in North America, there were only two copies of the f/2.8 available in ebay so I gave it a shot to change from the f/4 to the f/2.8. I've put together three posts of the initial results from three different zoos that will run this week into next.

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Apr 1, 2019 11:30:22   #
imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida
 
CHG_CANON wrote:
Thank you Larry! I had the f/4 version, but found it wasn't compatible with the FD version of the 1.4x extender. Last fall in North America, there were only two copies of the f/2.8 available in ebay so I gave it a shot to change from the f/4 to the f/2.8. I've put together three posts of the initial results from three different zoos that will run this week into next.


Interesting ......I just got a Sony A99 and the Tamron 300 2.8 (also a RARE lens)- 1st test shot here - https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-585557-1.html ......

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Apr 1, 2019 11:31:21   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
Thank you scaudill, Country boy, fbeaston, jaymatt, msw, Karin, Ken! I traveled last fall with just EOS bodies and lenses and these images from when I got home to Chicago to break-out the Sony body for a change of pace. Glad you enjoyed.

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Apr 1, 2019 12:04:42   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
imagemeister wrote:
Interesting ......I just got a Sony A99 and the Tamron 300 2.8 (also a RARE lens)- 1st test shot here - https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-585557-1.html ......


Thanks for the link! The other change I've made was swapping the FD 135 /f2 for a FD 200 f/4 macro. I was using the 135 only for macro work anyways. The 200 is a lot sharper even though the 135 was already wonderful.

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