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benjojo posted 25 May 2025 20:38 +0000

Found some Bees! Love the difference between the 300mm on the camera body I like, vs the 300mm on the body I was pretty meh on

Also, all of these pics are miracles, amazed the bees could hold on in the wind, for getting photos of them was a challenge as they were swishing around

Honey Bee's on lavender Honey Bee's on lavender Honey Bee's on lavender

benjojo replied 26 May 2025 09:47 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/jamesog/statuses/114570728327799617

@jamesog the good one I enjoy using is a Fuji X-E3 with a "Tamron 18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD", the meh one is a Nikon D5100 and a 50-300mm that I got for cheap, it does the job, but I think the AF motor is a bit broken-ish, and the body has a bunch of firmware mods to make it a usable HDMI webcam (it's main use case)

I appreciate the Nikon for what it is to me though, a camera that is capable of taking good pics if you put time into it, but that I would not be sad if I accidentally destroyed it in some urbex camera misadventure

jamesog@mastodon.soc.. replied 26 May 2025 09:59 +0000
in reply to: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/bNbs5g83SxZ7gBWBVF

@benjojo Wow, 18-300 is quite the focal range! Do you get much vignetting with that?

I switched from a Canon 5D to a Sony a6700 a little while back. Great camera, so much lighter than my old 5D. I've got a 70-350 f4.5-6.3 which is pretty decent, although haven't managed to do much wildlife with it yet. Keep wanting to get a red kite that tends to fly around here

benjojo replied 26 May 2025 10:22 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/jamesog/statuses/114573544896633051

@jamesog

Wow, 18-300 is quite the focal range! Do you get much vignetting with that?

Na it's surprisingly good, the 50-300 did have some though

I switched from a Canon 5D to a Sony a6700 a little while back.

Yeah it seems like the actually nice bodies for hobby and semi pro are now entirely Fuji and Sony alpha, Sony seems to have much better ranges of lenses but I bought a Fuji and generally prefer the on camera processing to the alpha's i've tried out