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  1. Jake Shoots Birds

    Other  Looking for an available 200-800mm RF

    I thought I'd gotten on the waiting list at the usual place for the 200-800mm but I'm still waiting. If anyone has a line on an available one at retail here in the States I'd much appreciate a heads up. I was hoping to have it while I'm still in FL.
  2. Jake Shoots Birds

    Birds  Burrowing Owls

    It's been cold and wet in SW Florida so my morning sojourns to see these little rascals have only shown a few brave souls. Love to shoot them every time I'm visiting my Mom.
  3. Jake Shoots Birds

    Canon R5  File Numbering Fiasco Shooting 2 Cards

    I was shooting yesterday morning with my R5 set up as it has been for a long time with stills going to card 1 and video to card 2. It was a great day's shoot but when I got home and went imported my images I noticed I had up to 7 images with the exact same filename, so the import was adding a...
  4. Jake Shoots Birds

    That "Oh Sh*t!!" Moment On A Gig

    I don't do a lot of shooting for other people, so normally when something goes wrong in the field any related panic has no real world consequences. Not so yesterday when I was fulfilling my end of a charity auction donation where I photographed a family during a 1-on-1 falconry encounter...
  5. Jake Shoots Birds

    Can Lr 13 Make Me Stop Caring About Minimum Aperture?

    I don't use Lr for much beyond cataloging, applying camera profiles, cropping, and minor light adjustments before sending stuff to Photoshop, but given that Lr's Develop Module is simply Camera Raw, and I use Camera Raw Filter in Photoshop after applying DeNoise there (I like the ability to...
  6. Jake Shoots Birds

    R7 + 800mm f11 Captures What?!

    I had captured the Blue Moon with the R7 and 100-500mm and started wondering why I hadn't tried the 800mm. So a couple mornings later I went out and gave it a shot and was really happy with the way the IBIS allowed me to capture it handheld. After shooting the moon I saw this bright star to the...
  7. Jake Shoots Birds

    Yesterday in New Jersey

    I work from home and spend most afternoons from May thru September with my work laptop on our deck, working while waiting to see what critters come and go with a camera by my side. Smoke from Canadian wild fires has made that impossible the last two days, with yesterday's particulate levels...
  8. Jake Shoots Birds

    iShoot 100-400mm RF Lens Collar Tripod Mount

    I shoot primarily wildlife and have been tag teaming an R5 with 100-500mm and an R7 with 100-400mm using the R5 primarily for stills and the R7 for video. While the 100-400mm is light enough that it doesn't stress the lens mount with the camera mounted to the tripod, the balance is really bad...
  9. Jake Shoots Birds

    Discount Codes

    Various post-processing software is available at a discount if you purchase it using a code usually provided by an influencer that shares theirs, and they tend to get a kickback. I've yet to see one for DxO and for Pure Raw 3 in particular. Does anyone know of one? I'd rather save some $$ and...
  10. Jake Shoots Birds

    Canon R5  Why is the R5 not Recording Video?

    My apologies if this is an easy answer that I could look up but I tried and I'm not finding anything and I need a quick answer. Up until this morning if I was shooting stills and pressed the record button on the top of my R5 it would automatically switch to video mode and begin recording...
  11. Jake Shoots Birds

    Canon R5  Major R5 Firmware Update Coming

    Color me very excited... https://www.canonrumors.com/canon-to-release-major-firmware-update-for-the-canon-eos-r5/
  12. Jake Shoots Birds

    Birds  Warbler

    I'm still trying to suss out if this is a Cape May or Palm Warbler (Merlin can't tell), but I was so happy when it posed in such a great spot.
  13. Jake Shoots Birds

    Canon R7  R7 Weariness

    I've been shooting with the R7 a lot since I got it at the end of June, and while I love the reach I am honestly getting tired of the AF system failing and would rather crop to 17MPs on the R5 than miss shots the way I am at 32MP. I will get minor focus shifting all the time on a stationary...
  14. Jake Shoots Birds

    Canon R7  R7 Focusing Frustrations

    I'm an early adopter of the R7, replacing my R5 for a lot of my wildlife work. When it works I love the extra reach. But I'm finally getting frustrated with waiting on a firmware update that will fix the focusing. Yesterday I was shooting a Red Shouldered Hawk in a tree. It was in the shadows...
  15. Jake Shoots Birds

    Birds  Hummingbird with the R7

    I finally found myself in the same place as a hummingbird with the R7. Light wasn't great and I found the autofocus jumped a lot, sometimes grabbing the eye, sometimes not. I was shooting with the electronic shutter and about 1/3 of the photos showed signs of rolling shutter, which is more than...
  16. Jake Shoots Birds

    Canon R7  DxO Pure Raw 2 Support is Here

    So it seems that DxO Pure Raw now supports the R7 and R10. Quick work. I've not used it but I'm going to download the trial to see if all the fuss about it and its noise reduction capabilities is worth it. I've been using Topaz Denoise AI and I'm happy with it, but not as happy as I've been...
  17. Jake Shoots Birds

    General Full-Frame  R6 & R7 Writing To Second Card

    So this has happened twice in the last week with the R7 and once with my R6 - with both cards in the slot the camera has written to the card in slot 1 and not slot 2. With the R7 it was as recently as this morning, and immediately after I reformatted the card in slot 1, so it's not that the...
  18. Jake Shoots Birds

    Canon R7  R7 + RF 100-400mm

    I was shooting Burrowing Owls this weekend with the R7. On Saturday I used the R7 with the 100-500mm, but on Sunday I put the 100-500mm on the R5 and shot video while using the 100-400mm RF on the R7 to do stills. The 100-500mm works perfectly on the R7 and the eye tracking is amazing - it even...
  19. Jake Shoots Birds

    Birds  Burrowing Owl in-flight for Rush Fans

    Shot some Burrowing Owls over the weekend. This shot was from yesterday morning. I was aimed at another pair when this guy took off from a post at the rear of the burrow area and flew right at me. Apparently he didn't like me and aggressively passed me at head level, staring at me the entire...
  20. Jake Shoots Birds

    Canon R7  R7 Adobe Support & Camera Profiles

    I was figuring I'd need to use DPP for a while before Adobe introduced support for the D7. So not only was I surprised when it came just a couple weeks after release, but more so I was surprised that they introduced camera profiles as well, something that took months after the R5 & R6. I'd...

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