Nature's pallette

[Ziggy]

• ILCE-9
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter
• 560.0 mm
• ƒ/9.5
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 640

Mulga Parrot, Mutawintji NP, Australia

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• ILCE-9
• FE 400mm F2.8 GM OSS + 2X Teleconverter
• 800.0 mm
• ƒ/6.7
• 1/4000 sec
• ISO 3200

Galah, Macquarie R. NSW

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• ILCE-9
• FE 400mm F2.8 GM OSS + 2X Teleconverter
• 800.0 mm
• ƒ/6.7
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 4000

Eastern Yellow Robin, Mt Beauty, Victoria

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• ILCE-9
• FE 400mm F2.8 GM OSS + 2X Teleconverter
• 800.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/1250 sec
• ISO 100

Black-shouldered Kite, Western Treatment Plant, Victoria

 

[Ralph]

Have to say these are good images Ziggy and it looks like you know what to do behind the lens.

 

[Ziggy]

Thanks Aussie, kind of you to say.

 

[Mike Renny]

Australia really does have the most amazing and colourful array of birdlife of anywhere in the world. Bird photographers in Aus are spoilt rotten!!

 

[Ziggy]

We do and we are.

We also sadly lead the world in extinctions (among all creatures) due to habitat destruction and feral animal predation.

 

[AlphaArt]

I was lucky to visit Australia 6 times but unfortunately it was pre digital days and I only had a Zenith. Hoping to return one day to Alice and areas up north around Kakadu for a photography holiday. Thanks for sharing

 

[Ade]

Awesome shots Ziggy.
I notice the data says 800mm. Is that a 600mm lens zoomed in using the camera?

 

[Ade]

Awesome shots Ziggy.
I notice the data says 800mm. Is that a 600mm lens zoomed in using the camera?

Think I worked it out......x2 converter on a 100-400mm lens?

 

[Ziggy]

Think I worked it out......x2 converter on a 100-400mm lens?

On the 400/2.8 Ade.
That TC works OK on the 100-400 providing you've got decent light and enough pixels on the subject.

 

[Drewid]

Don't start telling me how good the 2x TC is I've just bought the 1.4x!

 

[Ziggy]

This would be the most I've squeezed out of the 2x. Not quite fully racked out with the A9 and 100-400, it's at f11 which the A9 copes with but the A7R III uses CDAF. The light was flat but OK and I was quite close to the bird. It was luck to have the background in the distance; nearby foliage eg would have made for a distraction.

• ILCE-9
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS + 2X Teleconverter
• 722.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 1600

Western Whistler, Woody's Island, Western Australia

 

[Drewid]

That is a cracking photo, had I seen this I might have gone for the 2x!

 

[Ziggy]

Thanks.
You can always get both!

 

[Drewid]

There is other photographic paraphernalia ahead of that!