Greater Scaup.

Posted by Karl Egressy on Tue Feb 19, 2019 5:50 am

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I was testing the lens plus extender. They look to be working well.
Thanks for looking.

Nikon D850
Nikon 500mm f 5.6 +1.4x III.
ISO 800
1/2000 s
f 9.0

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by Jan Wegener on Tue Feb 19, 2019 6:42 am

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gorgeous looking scaup Karl. Looks like the gear delivered.

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by E.J. Peiker on Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:39 am

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Yeah if you get that combo calibrated it works well, stopping down even 1/3 of a stop, as you did here, really improves sharpness of the combo. There is a significant drop in resolution wide open with that combo. In my testing the sweet spot for the 500PF + 1.4x III is f/10.

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by peter makuch on Tue Feb 19, 2019 9:54 am

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I like your shot, BUT, well done KARL.

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by leigha on Tue Feb 19, 2019 11:48 am

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Nice looking Scaup, Karl.

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by Bruce Sherman on Tue Feb 19, 2019 12:24 pm

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Karl,

Looks like you got the new lens. Just curious, how were you able to get one?

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by Ivan Sjögren on Tue Feb 19, 2019 1:12 pm

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Looks really good! The head turn is waht makes the image for me. Very well exposed, great details and good-looking water.

PS. Did you have Canon before?

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by Karl Egressy on Tue Feb 19, 2019 1:32 pm

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Ivan Sjögren wrote:Looks really good! The head turn is waht makes the image for me. Very well exposed, great details and good-looking water.

PS. Did you have Canon before?

Thanks Ivan. I had Canon for 31 years.
My favorite combo vas the most recent Canon 500 Mark II and Canon 5D Mark IV.

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by Karl Egressy on Tue Feb 19, 2019 1:35 pm

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E.J. Peiker wrote:Yeah if you get that combo calibrated it works well, stopping down even 1/3 of a stop, as you did here, really improves sharpness of the combo. There is a significant drop in resolution wide open with that combo. In my testing the sweet spot for the 500PF + 1.4x III is f/10.

Thank you, I'll try to use F10 most of the time and already did but not on this shot.
I also did the calibration more than once to make sure of getting similar results. (0: -1: -2)

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by Karl Egressy on Tue Feb 19, 2019 1:38 pm

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Bruce Sherman wrote:Karl,

Looks like you got the new lens. Just curious, how were you able to get one?

Thanks Bruce. My best friend is friend with a shop owner in the area. Five month waiting time at Henry's and nothing.
About five weeks waiting at the other shop and the phone call came.

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by Ron Day on Tue Feb 19, 2019 5:15 pm

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Congrats on the new lens, Karl. The image looks great with beautiful color and detail.

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by Cynthia Crawford on Tue Feb 19, 2019 9:06 pm

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A wonderful image-beautiful clean color and detail- really a fine example of what this combo can do...in the right hands!

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by Carol Clarke on Thu Feb 21, 2019 5:36 pm

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Looks good to me! Beautiful scaup, Karl.

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by Mako_Elite on Fri Feb 22, 2019 5:07 pm