No, Toto, no new gear. Same old trusty 400mm L with Kenko 1.4x.
I guess I was somewhat lucky. Didn't even try birding hard. Started about 7am, ended 8:30. My kumpare was with me with a pair of binoculars and I could hear the beer cans beckoning from his cooler bag. Felt pity for him carrying such a heavy load so I had to help him lighten it.
As expected, we were feeling veeeery goood, before 10am when we rejoined our wives at a beach.
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While at Olango, enjoying a bagfull of beers with my buddy, a fish popped out of the water and started crawling on the sand! Other smaler fish, probably the fry of the first one, followed. There were a total of 8 of them.
Anybody know what they are?
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I'm all keyed up. Will be on a flight with my family to Cebu over the weekend. Sunday, my kumpare and I will be sneaking into Olango with camera gear, binos, and beer.
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May I announce that I am buying the 1dMk4 next week together with the 800mmL and 600mmL. Oh, and also the Gitzo tripod paired with an original Wimberley.
I will be buying lotto tickets tomorrow.
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I can only pity Rey, who left his gear at home and who could only watch us from a distance while we press shutter buttons in multi-orga*ms.... he must've drooled a river while we were shooting. I'm sure though that he'll be back to feed the mosquitoes in this spot soon.
Not only Rey. I'm drooling myself now. Can't wait to get back my tripod from the repair shop!
Perfect shot, Master (President)!
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I am wondering why you prefer to use manual focus when you are not using a TC. Nevertheless the picture came out perfectly focus. You even got the color of the cheeks which we never get to see because the bird is usually far away. Very nice. Well done Ding. Mabuhay.
A matter of habit, really. I always found that auto-focus often focused on branches and leaves, seldom on the bird so I just trained myself to be quick-on-the-ring.
This one, BTW, I used the TC so no choice but manual.
Thanks!
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