For the birds

[kiev4a]

Here's where a 12 megapixel FF digital would be nice instead of half the pixels and 2/3 of full frame. Shot this last night when I spotted a quail in the peak of our roof surveying his domain. 70mm (top end of zoom) at 640 ISO. This is maybe a quarter of the frame blow up. Still it's not too bad IMO.


[Here's where a 12 megapixel FF digital would be nice instead of half the pixels and 2/3 of full frame. Shot this last night when I spotted a quail in the peak of our roof surveying his domain. 70mm (top end of zoom) at 640 ISO. This is maybe a quarter of the frame blow up. Still it's not too bad IMO.




In addition these little guys showed up last night on our patio and refuse to leave. We chase 'em off and 30 seconds later they are back. Their goal, I'm sure is to build a mud nest under the eaves. Problem with that is next year there would be 10 swallows trying to build nests instead of two.



Tonight only one one swallow is sleeping over although I did see a second bird briefly earlier. No attempts to build a nest. After it gets dark even a flash at a range of maybe 8 feet won't flush him.

[Reiska]

I don't recognize the first bird but others are swallows. I hope,
that on the roof is not a bird who swallows swallows ??

Bigger problem will be what they leave behind
Excellent pictures, thanks for shearing.

Six megapixels is quite a lot given that the figure is a product.
Full frame sensors are antique soon IMHO (Sorry Canon freaks)
The development of the sensor chips will do that.

[kiev4a]

The bird on the roof is a quail. We have about a hundred of then who live in our subdivision year round--the hunters can't shoot them here. Quail won't swallow swallows. You won't find a more peaceful bird.

As to full fram sensors, that's what I keep telling the people on forums who ask when Nikon will make a full frame digital. "Full frame" only is relevant to 35mm film--actually an arbitrary size. Virtually all new lenses made by Nikon are DX lenses, meaning if you put them on a film camera the image won't cover an entire 35mm negative. That is an indication to me that the company doesn't have any big plans for a 35mm-sized sensor.