1/32,000 sec shutter speed!
Maria and I took a drive back to this nice location, and gave this beautiful Male another "go" this morning, very early.
Special thanks to the very cool photographers who I met this morning, on the shooting site. A very enjoyable group, and good conversations.
It was nice also to meet writer/photographer Dave Taylor. Please check out his new book, "Black Bears: A Natural History."
Link here:
https://www.davetaylorwildlife.com/black-bears-a-natural-history.html
It took a while for the clouds to clear, and the sun to show up. Unusually, about 2 hours of waiting for the bird to grace our presence. He was shy this morning!
So Maria had the hands on with the camera for 90% of the time, I have a fair amount of hummingbird images anyhow, today was for her.
Maria sets up the camera a little differently. And for me, I am experimenting with extreme settings in preparation for my next tour to Ecuador. Even the diopter needs to be changed when we switch!
I have the 2 body's, A9 and A7r4, but only one long lens right now. I hope to get a second-long lens before winter. So we fight over one kit for now!
So with this opportunity, I wanted to stretch the shutter speed to 1/32,000 of a second, so I waited for the prime light to show up. At 5,000 ISO and f6.3 I was able to fire bursts at 20 frames per second, and captured every wing position you could imagine, and tack sharp for each one! There was no wing blur in any shot. So in one sequence, I held the shutter down for just over 2 seconds, about 45 images and all of them so sharp!
The trade-off is noise, especially using the crop factor on the camera. Also, I shot uncompressed RAW to compensate. And still at least a 50% crop in Photoshop.
In the end, I am happy with the results. During this flower feeding scene above, The focus stayed with the bird to perfection.
Another day, always learning, and still having fun with my young lady.
Thanks for looking.
