Stunning High-ISO Bird Photography
Couple a mega-expensive lens and Yves P’s fantastic photography skills and this is the result.
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- View a larger version of the images, which were shot at ISO 800 to 1600. Full EXIF information is available.
- Images were run through a noise reduction process involving Noise Ninja applied on a layer in Photoshop at 40% opacity
Equipment used: Nikon D200, Nikkor 600mm f/4D ED-IF AF-S II lens. Yves remarked that the Nikkor 600mm is excellent for sports and wildlife photography, with flawless autofocus performance.
Yves also gives a brief review of the D200, saying that it has slightly better dynamic range (DR) than other Nikon Digital SLRs, and that it exhibited banding only under extreme conditions, where it fared much better than the D2H. AF tracking works very well, and battery life extends after the fourth of fifth charge.