D200 Hummingbird shots 105/2.8 VR + 2x TC

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Paul Furman - 06 Nov 2006 18:13 GMT

D200 Hummingbird shots 105/2.8 VR + 2x TC
Living in an apartment with no feeder, my opportunities are limited but
these turned out pretty well I think for handheld, no flash cropped grab
shots.

http://tinyurl.com/yg6p3t
Note: these were done with ISO 1600 setting due to low light and wanting
to freeze the wings at least somewhat with a fast-ish shutter speed. The
first one (sitting) was in very dark conditions with a longer lens, very
slow shutter and underexposed so even more grainy but captures the
brilliance of the red feathers on the head which change color depending
on the angle or whether the hummer flashes the feathers up for you.

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cjcampbell - 07 Nov 2006 02:24 GMT

> D200 Hummingbird shots 105/2.8 VR + 2x TC
> Living in an apartment with no feeder, my opportunities are limited but
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> brilliance of the red feathers on the head which change color depending
> on the angle or whether the hummer flashes the feathers up for you.

Yeah, you are right -- a few of them are cropped a little beyond the
photo's resolution, too. Nevertheless, interesting pictures. And you
used the 2x teleconverter? Any problems using it with the 105mm
micro-Nikkor?

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Rita Ä Berkowitz - 07 Nov 2006 03:02 GMT

> Yeah, you are right -- a few of them are cropped a little beyond the
> photo's resolution, too. Nevertheless, interesting pictures. And you
> used the 2x teleconverter? Any problems using it with the 105mm
> micro-Nikkor?

Optically the 2x with that lens is great. The AF speed suffers and is a bit
slow and is miserable when it hunts. And, yes, that combo does AF past f/8.
So you can get real close before AF dies.

Rita

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Paul Furman - 07 Nov 2006 06:01 GMT

>>D200 Hummingbird shots 105/2.8 VR + 2x TC
>>Living in an apartment with no feeder, my opportunities are limited but
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> used the 2x teleconverter? Any problems using it with the 105mm
> micro-Nikkor?

The 2x TC works great with the 105, much better than with the 70-200,
still very sharp & no funny bokeh. The AF hunt is annoying but it's
annoying without the TC too.

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Mike Fields - 07 Nov 2006 02:29 GMT

> D200 Hummingbird shots 105/2.8 VR + 2x TC
> Living in an apartment with no feeder, my opportunities are limited
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> change color depending on the angle or whether the hummer flashes the
> feathers up for you.

Not bad considering -- those buggers are tough - they
only have two speeds; "hover" and "gone" -- shooting with
a flash can be tough because they are so fast, if the flash is
on auto and has that very brief "pre-flash", they are gone
by the time the real flash goes off. somewhere a while back
I came across a configuration using a Nikon with the strobe
on 1/16 th power (manual) up fairly close to where they would
be and fired wirelessly by the camera. The low power
allowed an effective flash speed of 1/8000 or some such (maybe
faster). It may have been on kenrockwell.com, however,
the "Monday bit" is set and it will not load for me for some
reason.

mikey

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