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Goldcrest

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Posted by Phillip Tomkinson on March 19, 2007 at 12:17 PM
Goldcrest
One from today having only had my 800 back a couple of days after a service and repair (I fell over and decided to power drive it into the ground for the second time ???) This is really the first good opportunity I have had to check my lens out the heavy fall caused some damage to the lens mount and the lens started to back focus it took Sigma quite a bit longer to repair the minor damage to the lens than it did for nikon to calibrate the autofocus nikon uk took 72 hours Sigma took 32 days :rolleyes:.

Phillip.

PP in nikon captured and then cropped to a4 proportions this is the first image I have showing the yellow and orange crest I am very pleased with it.

Nikon D2X
Focal Length: 800mm
Color Mode: Mode III (Adobe RGB)
2007/03/19 12:03:58.4
Exposure Mode: Aperture Priority
White Balance: Preset d-4
Metering Mode: Center-Weighted
AF Mode: AF-C
1/180 sec - F/8
Exposure Comp.: -0.3 EV
Lens: 800mm F/5.6 D
Sensitivity: ISO 200


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Posted by Alan Bryant on March 19, 2007 at 12:28 PM
WOW what a awesome looking bird(another bird ive never seen :rolleyes: ).

Sorry to hear about your misshap again :frown:
Posted by Michael Sayles on March 19, 2007 at 12:31 PM
Cracking looking bird! The surroundings are a tad busy, but the bird looks great!

P.S. What is that little yellow thing in your signature??? I can't work out what it is, and it's doing my head in, LOL!
Posted by Phillip Tomkinson on March 19, 2007 at 12:40 PM
Hi Michael it's a little yellow duckling with its wing over its eyebrow looking into the distance it used to be a animated giff but the site for some reason wouldn't allow it to work.

Thanks for comment also.

Phillip.

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Posted by John Chapman on March 19, 2007 at 12:47 PM
Cracking shot Phillip of an elusive bird. :toast:
John
Aberdeen :toast:
Posted by Mark Sisson on March 19, 2007 at 2:04 PM
Lovely colours on the crest Philip - worth the wait for the return methinks.

Mark

Posted by Dave Courtenay on March 19, 2007 at 2:21 PM
I dont remember seeing the orange on the head before normally just gold-cracking shot of a difficult subject :toast:
Posted by Paul Thomas on March 19, 2007 at 6:02 PM
What a cracker :toast:

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Paul
Posted by David Kjaer on March 20, 2007 at 4:47 AM
Wow I'm jealous!

David :toast: :toast:
Posted by Jim Greenfield on March 20, 2007 at 5:13 AM
Excellent work with a very difficult subject. I have them in my garden - and they take fat from my feeded which I find strange - but they flit about so rapidly I don't know how you managed to get a shot at all.
Posted by Andy Astbury on March 20, 2007 at 5:49 AM
Simply stunning Phillip - great, great capture, I love it :toast: :toast: :toast:

Regards

Andy
Posted by Andy Astbury on March 20, 2007 at 5:53 AM
Simply stunning Phillip - great, great capture, I love it :toast: :toast: :toast:

My 300 2.8 had to go back to sigma for a warranty repair at the begining of Feb, it was away 4 weeks and came back apparently working fine - only used it the other day and I'm a bit concerned as I cannot take anything like a sharp image above f5 so I think it'll be going back again.

Again though, stunning GC - thanks for the share!!

Regards

Andy
Posted by PhilH on March 21, 2007 at 5:26 AM
Cracking shot of an elusive bird showing the crest very well, although the image is busy this is how you would see them...

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