A New Chapter

Pete December 18, 2016December 23, 2016 0 Comments Bird, Blashford Lakes, Canon, Canon 100-400 EF f/4.5-5.6 IS II USM lens, Canon EF 1.4x III extender, Canon EOS 7D Mark II camera, Chaffinch, Great Tit, Kingfisher, Nuthatch, Robin, Wildlife

For some time I have been thinking of improving my camera gear for taking wildlife photo’s, and finally took the plunge a couple weeks back. This has also seen a new chapter in manufactures, no longer exclusively using Olympus camera’s, I have now gone Canon. The new additions are the Canon EOS 7D Mark II camera body, the Canon 100-400 EF f/4.5-5.6 IS II USM lens and Canon EF 1.4x III extender.

The weather wasn’t very kind for the first outing, dull grey and occasionally rain! This does seem to be a recurring theme whenever new toys arrive!

This didn’t put me off in fact I decided this was an good opportunity to test out the 7D Mark II’s ISO & autofocus performance. I was particularly looking forward to trying out the autofocus feature as I have had to manually focus for several years due to the micro 4/3rds Olympus EM5 & EM5 Mk II autofocus struggling to work with the Sigma 50-500 4/3rd lens.

The autofocus worked like a dream, and overtime I am hopeful of achieving far better wildlife photo’s given the fact this will reduce the no. of missed opportunites caused by manual focusing.

I started out at ISO 2,500 and eventually finished at ISO 16,000 and here are the results with no post processing whatsoever.

ISO 2,500