Two Little Stints were feeding on the seaweed at Marazion Beach on Sunday morning. They were rediculously tame and allowed approach to 5 m. I had to move back as the close focus on the 600m F/4 lens wouldn't go closer. My favourite of the five is the image immediately below as it catches the movement of the river.
EXIF Detail: Ap. priority. F/8. Shutter speed 1/400s. Exposure -0.7EV. ISO 250. WB Cloudy. Matrix metering.
All the images were taken in RAW File, a format that I am now happy with and convinced that the final images are better quality than a JPEG file.
The light was awful and combined with driving rain and low cloud cover, I inadvertently underexposed slightly by about 1/3rd. All the images have been exposure-corrected in CaptureNX2 software, a simple task when using RAW.
I used the 600mm F/4 lens with 1.4x TC. I'm convinced that after a years' use of this monster lens, it works better with the 1.4 TC than with the 1.7x. The latter for me just gives too many out of focus images. Of the 195 images taken of this stint, approx 90% were in focus and only rejected because of poor composure.
