Taken today at Brandon Marsh on my Fuji Xt50 and Tamron 150-500mm

Cormorants don’t really float like a duck or goose as they lack the oils, as I found out here the other week.

  • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Cormorants are good swimmers though! They dive underwater and stretch out while holding their wings flat against their body, propelling themselves with powerful kicks of their legs. They’re not dabblers like mallards, though.

  • DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth
    2·
    13 days ago

    Nice shot. Some of these Tamrons are surprisingly good bang for your buck, I’ve got a similar model and it’s been fantastic.

    • tankplanker@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      13 days ago

      I like it, I paid half what a used fuji 150-600mm for mine, new. The fuji isn’t twice as good, especially as its slower at the full extension.

      Tamron saved money as its basically the same glass as the full frame version but cropped down to apsc at the mount so it avoids a lot of the distortion in the corners its full frame twin suffers with.

      • DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth
        3·
        13 days ago

        I’ve got the 150-600 Tamron as well as a newer Canon 100-500 L glass for my mirrorless and, while the Canon is definitely better, it’s certainly not THAT much better.

        • tankplanker@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          13 days ago

          Exactly, I know I am the limiting factor in my photos and not my camera or my lenses.

          If i was to upgrade it would be to the big fuji primes, go big or go home.

            • tankplanker@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              2·
              12 days ago

              Wildlife photography is weird with primes, pretty much every other genre you can pick a prime or two for a day to suit the depth of field/compression you are aiming for and just zoom with your feet.

              You have far more control over composition.

              Wildlife you can do this as well but it requires local knowledge, scouting trips, getting up before dawn to sit in a hide to get the right distance, and probably more than one visit to nail that close up shot with a 90mm.

              Zoom lens are a time machine as their flexibility allows you to skip all that and still get a usable photo.

              I picked a 90mm as thats my favorite portrait lens length, and what is Wildlife photography but portrait with an uncooperative subject?