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Does Long Exposure set to ON resulting in blurred objects?
No, the Long Exposure NR setting is not causing any blurriness or interfering with the camera focus.
Long Exposure Noise Reduction only kicks in if the exposure is longer than 1 second, and really is ...
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Lens for Nikon D5600 recommended for bird photography
Focal length does not much depend on the bird or the camera, but instead depends on the distance to the bird. Is distance 3 meters or 30 meters? The camera you own is likely very fine. Use it to learn ...
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Do my photos look blurrier on a newer, higher-resolution camera body because my lens has a problem?
The bird is not slightly blurry because your lens is soft. The bird is slightly blurry because in your image the lens is focused on the nearer parts of the tree rather than on the bird that is behind ...
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Do my photos look blurrier on a newer, higher-resolution camera body because my lens has a problem?
Modern sensors are very demanding. On the DXO site, your original 100-400mm has a sharpness of 14 P-Mpix (so well above your 10D even considering it's an APS-C sensor), while the newer version has a ...
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Should I use automatic focus or manual focus for bird photography?
With a Canon Rebel XTi and a 500mm - 1000mm f/8 lens, the question isn't really, Should I use Autofocus or Manual Focus but more so Will Autofocus Work At All?
The Rebel series is a consumer grade ...
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Lens for Nikon D5600 recommended for bird photography
I have taken some very beautiful bird pictures with a 55-250mm lens on a crop sensor entry-level Canon DSLR. It's 400mm equivalent (35mm). On your Nikon, the 300mm is 450mm equivalent (35mm), i.e. ...
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Lens auto-focus not working well
With any of these modes, you have to be aware that the camera is not actually 'intelligent', nor particularly 'smart'. You have to give it some good clues as you what you're after, and also try your ...
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Does Long Exposure set to ON resulting in blurred objects?
It depends on the blur type. Usually:
Motion blur
Motion blur happens if the camera moves during the exposure. When shooting hand held with a 300mm on an APS-C camera, you should shoot at something ...
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Should I use automatic focus or manual focus for bird photography?
Two things that make the question moot:
Your EOS Rebel XTi/400D is only rated to autofocus with lenses f/5.6 or wider (lower f-number). There are third party lenses with f/6.3 maximum apertures at ...
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What are must-haves for a beginner in wildlife photography?
I would start with a point and shoot with as long an effective focal length lens as you can afford. Wildlife is generally far away and even 250-300mm 35mm-equivalent focal length can be very ...
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Does Long Exposure set to ON resulting in blurred objects?
I doubt that Long Exposure NR plays in. First of all it is not used unless you are using very long exposure times, which is not really useful when shooting birds. Second, it would not result in blurry ...
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Hummingbird photography with a Nikon D5300
One of our local photography club members specializes in Hummmingbird shots. I'll explain his approach as best I can.
First and foremost, he achieves gorgous stop-action of the wings with partial ...
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Nikon sg-3ir more robust D.I.Y. alternative?
Actually, some people have just used exposed/developed film as a filter, but in these digital days, that stuff's harder to come by. Infrared filter gels are probably as or more expensive than the ...
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What's the advantage of having a ball head on a gimbal head?
His words beginning at about 8:07 :
In the interest of adding a little bit more elevation to this particular head, I took this Manfrotto ball head, put it on top here and then what I'm able to do ...
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Canon 200mm f/2.8 L II USM vs Sigma 70-200mm F2.8 EX APO DG OS or something else?
I currently have the Tamron 70–200mm f/2.8 and it is a powerhouse of a lens that is very versatile. The f/2.8 will allow you to achieve a noticeably better bokeh than the f/4 and gives you the ability ...
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Canon 200mm f/2.8 L II USM vs Sigma 70-200mm F2.8 EX APO DG OS or something else?
As a former long time Canon 700D user that did wildlife and amateur sport photography with some of the lenses that you listed as your options, I recommend you go with the 200mm f/2.8. It is a prime ...
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What are must-haves for a beginner in wildlife photography?
I'm going to throw my hat into the ring with - a crop-frame DSLR such as the Nikon D5xxx or cheaper D3xxx series.
eBay - used D3300 £160, used D5500 £280
I would marry that with a long-throw zoom. ...
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Bird Photography Camera System
You are asking for something that does not exist.
The only cameras I am aware of that can show a wider field of view and simultaneously record/mark a smaller field of view is a full frame DSLR ...
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EOS Rebel T100 compatible 300 or 400 mm lense
Yes, Canon T100/4000D is compatible with EF 75-300. And if you want to reach 400mm for this sensor you will have it because equivalent focal length of this lens on this body is 480mm.
But you may have ...
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How to use Sony A77M2 auto-focus for shooting birds
Stationary and in flight are two rather different problems... For stationary birds your main problem is focusing on the bird and not on a nearby leaf. For birds in flight it is just focusing...
I don'...
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teleconverter for a Canon Powershot SX50 HS
With the SX50's crop factor you are already at 1200mm equivalent... even if the 2x diopter thing was of top quality (and it's not), 2400mm effective is near useless. Even with great technique/...
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Hummingbird photography with a Nikon D5300
You are wanting to freeze the motion of the wings which move extremely fast... That's typically going to require shutter speeds around 1/2000 or faster; which means you need strong light or higher ISO ...
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Bird Photography lens recommendations on a Canon 7D Mk I
Both Sigma and Tamron currently offer 150-600mm f/5-6.3 image stabilized lenses in the Canon EF mount. Those are probably the most budget conscious choices beyond 300mm for relatively new lenses.
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Should I use automatic focus or manual focus for bird photography?
For birds at rest, you can probably get away with manual focus. For birds in motion/flight, you would have to be very good with your manual focus to be successful. Autofocus would have a much better ...
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Canon EOS 550D vs Canon EOS Rebel XSi for Bird Photography &/or UW Surf Photography
There are very few differences between either camera, other than sensor resolution and video capability. They're both from the same series of cameras within Canon's product line.
The Canon EOS 550D ...
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Canon EOS 550D vs Canon EOS Rebel XSi for Bird Photography &/or UW Surf Photography
I am curious which camera body I should invest the money in to get into the subjects of photography I most enjoy.
I used to own a 550D. It's a reasonable camera to use if you already have one or if ...
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Canon EOS 550D vs Canon EOS Rebel XSi for Bird Photography &/or UW Surf Photography
The XSi is also known as the 450D. The 550D being its successor has slightly better characteristics (18MPX vs 12, a bit more ISO), but the game changer is that the 550D can do video. They are ...
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Lens for Nikon D5600 recommended for bird photography
Birds are small and far away. I use a Nikon P900 with a 2000mm effective lens. I can find the bird in that small a field of view, sometimes using the zoom out feature on the camera but not always. I ...
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Digiscoping with superzoom or DSLR? (with spotting scope)
You've already found Lensrentals's comparison, which is probably the best comparison of a high-end telephoto lens against a high-end digiscope out there, so all we can really do here is to repeat ...
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