{"id":233,"date":"2015-09-23T08:16:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T13:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photographybygaryblake.com\/wordpress\/?p=233"},"modified":"2015-10-21T16:54:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T21:54:23","slug":"new-camera-and-hummingbird-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photographybygaryblake.com\/wordpress\/new-camera-and-hummingbird-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"New Camera and Hummingbird Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been breaking in a new camera, testing it out on one of my favourite subjects before a fall trip. These little hummingbirds are endlessly fascinating to watch. Energetic and feisty, and packed with quite a bit of attitude inside such a tiny package. I watch and photograph these little birds most of the summer.\u00a0 Photographing them at very close range I have come to able to identify most of them as they are all slightly different in size and markings.<\/p>\n

The new camera is a Sony A7R2. This is Sony’s latest model and is 42.4 megapixel mirrorless camera. Lots of very positive reviews so I thought I would try one out. I have basically been an Olympus user all my life and use a pair of Olympus OMD EM1 cameras.<\/p>\n

What impressed me most about this particular camera is the fact that is very similar in size and layout to my Olympus cameras and the fact that I can customize the buttons so it will work in almost the same way as the Olympus camera. Bonus is that I can use all of my older Olympus OM lenses on it with an adapter (manual focus though).<\/p>\n

Initial impressions are that the Sony engineers have really done their homework on this one, very impressed so far. Will be putting it through its paces in Northern Ontario shortly.<\/p>\n

Here is a few on the first results. For those that are interested these are the full resolution images just slightly cropped from 2:3 to 4:3 format (Takes a little off the sides to better fit paper sizes for printing)<\/p>\n

The thing about a 42.4mp camera is the incredible amount of detail it is capable of capturing. These pictures are taken in my backyard where I can control the lighting and background better. It is hard to tell from images resized for the web but on the computer at 100% I can see the back of my house and count the floorboards on my deck – in the reflection of that tiny little eye! Awesome!<\/p>\n

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Juvenile male ruby throated hummingbird<\/p><\/div>\n

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Juvenile male ruby throated hummingbird, first red gorget (throat) feather showing<\/p><\/div>\n

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Juvenile male ruby throated hummingbird, stretching<\/p><\/div>\n

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Juvenile male ruby throated hummingbird, streching the other way<\/p><\/div>\n

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Juvenile male ruby throated hummingbird,
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Juvenile male ruby throated hummingbird, resting after all that stretching<\/p><\/div>\n

I think the little guy stretching must have spent some time outside someones window watching yoga lessons (not mine though). Most of the hummingbirds I have seen do this stretching do it very quickly like everything else they do. This little fellow was working at a very slow and relaxed pace.<\/p>\n

Gary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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