Bird Watching: A few more shots of my bluebirds, 1 by 2dCousinDave

2dCousinDave wrote:
Speaking of high ISO values. Today is a typical December morning. It is cold and very dark and dreary. Using the 1D Mark IV and the Canon 500mm f/4 lens with the ISO set at 1000, the fastest shutter speed I could get was 1/200 sec, and that was with an aperture nearly wide open (f/4.5).

Canon claims the Mark IV can produce images with very little noise, even at high ISOs, so as a test I spun the ISO dial up to 12800, which gave me a shutter of 1/2500 sec, which is more to my liking since I am always trying to stop the birds in flight. Here is the result. Cropped 100 percent and sharpened just a tad. I know the picture is dull and the bird is not in sharp focus, except for its feet. The perch was my point of focus.

While I would not normally keep or show a picture of this quality, it is interesting to see what the camera will deliver in low light situations where flash is not possible. At least you can get something.

This message was edited Dec 10, 2010 9:43 AM

This message was edited Dec 10, 2010 9:44 AM