Great video and thanks for sharing your experience with this camera, I'm thinking of the D5 and 400mm f2.8 VR for bird photography and have been to bempton before and got reasonable images with my D90 and Nikon 70-300 VR lens.
You could also use a bridge camera and still get some great results if you are on a budget. The Panasonic FZ200 or FZ330 can do about 10fps burst, but does not have the deep buffer like the D5 of course, but they have a Leica lens 25-600mm optical zoom at F2.8!
approx £14,000 worth of gear used by someone who has little idea! A cheap flimsy monopod, no lens hood(should always be used to eradicate extraneous light(improves contrast and protects/keeps clean the lens front element), A quality monopod head(e.g RRSMH-01)enables up and downward movement of the lens without having to move the monopod, this greatly improves the use of camera and lens combo! Some may say the lens hood would make the combination more succeptable to the wind but the high shutter speeds offered by the d5 would make this loss negligable.Most of us who know how o use such gear would have loved this opoortunity, shame it wasted by someone who has little experience! cheers PS see how he struggles using the lens mounted directly to the monopod @2:43, had he been using an appropriate monopod head it would have been much easier and his results much better!
Nikon D500 and Nikon 200-500mm f5.6 is way better value and honestly just as good as what he is using here. Same focusing and almost same frame rate and buffer size. Crop sensor so even closer to birds.
The f5.6 sucks compared to a 200-400 f4. I own a 200-400 VR I and tested a f5.6 200-500 over the summer and found it disappointing. Used a D800 or D3x.
Agree, and for bird in fly I found the back button focusing very useful. No need to change between continous/still focus, fast, and You can get used to it in less than a week.
You do realize that when you use a FX lens with a DX sensor you are degrading the image quality in the same way as using a teleconverter does. Also compared to the D500 the D5 has considerably better dynamic range above 3200iso, better overall signal to noise ratio, color range and sensitivity. The images produced from a D5 will be noticeably better. Also, If you look at the lens chart images taken with identical cameras at the-digital-picture.com comparing the 200-500 to the 200-400vrii you'll see that it is not in the same league. Not even close. That said, a D500 with 200-500 is a great setup at an awesome price but pros would prefer a D5 with a 180-400 or 200-400vrii.
sorry sir i want ask about lens tamron g2 150-600 f5-6.3 new model compared with nikon 200-500 f5.6 which one is the sharpest and best for birding for me as hobby n birding activity? i will attached with my dx body nikon,could u please to help me give some info thanks alot sir
Great video and thanks for sharing your experience with this camera, I'm thinking of the D5 and 400mm f2.8 VR for bird photography and have been to bempton before and got reasonable images with my D90 and Nikon 70-300 VR lens.
Love Bempton Cliffs, off there on Sunday, a great place to learn shooting seabirds.
You could also use a bridge camera and still get some great results if you are on a budget. The Panasonic FZ200 or FZ330 can do about 10fps burst, but does not have the deep buffer like the D5 of course, but they have a Leica lens 25-600mm optical zoom at F2.8!
Good video, thanks!
approx £14,000 worth of gear used by someone who has little idea! A cheap flimsy monopod, no lens hood(should always be used to eradicate extraneous light(improves contrast and protects/keeps clean the lens front element), A quality monopod head(e.g RRSMH-01)enables up and downward movement of the lens without having to move the monopod, this greatly improves the use of camera and lens combo! Some may say the lens hood would make the combination more succeptable to the wind but the high shutter speeds offered by the d5 would make this loss negligable.Most of us who know how o use such gear would have loved this opoortunity, shame it wasted by someone who has little experience!
cheers
PS see how he struggles using the lens mounted directly to the monopod @2:43, had he been using an appropriate monopod head it would have been much easier and his results much better!
£14,000??? Woooow not a cheap hobby.
Nikon D500 and Nikon 200-500mm f5.6 is way better value and honestly just as good as what he is using here.
Same focusing and almost same frame rate and buffer size.
Crop sensor so even closer to birds.
The Tamron 150-600mm is an alternative too.
The f5.6 sucks compared to a 200-400 f4. I own a 200-400 VR I and tested a f5.6 200-500 over the summer and found it disappointing. Used a D800 or D3x.
Agree, and for bird in fly I found the back button focusing very useful. No need to change between continous/still focus, fast, and You can get used to it in less than a week.
So you'd say the 200-400mm is much better than the 200-500mm then?
You do realize that when you use a FX lens with a DX sensor you are degrading the image quality in the same way as using a teleconverter does. Also compared to the D500 the D5 has considerably better dynamic range above 3200iso, better overall signal to noise ratio, color range and sensitivity. The images produced from a D5 will be noticeably better.
Also, If you look at the lens chart images taken with identical cameras at the-digital-picture.com comparing the 200-500 to the 200-400vrii you'll see that it is not in the same league. Not even close.
That said, a D500 with 200-500 is a great setup at an awesome price but pros would prefer a D5 with a 180-400 or 200-400vrii.
that mount seems way too far back on that lens, plus you need a tilting head on that mono ;)
Nice
Get a stronger monopod . yours killed the stability of the 600mm
sorry sir i want ask about lens tamron g2 150-600 f5-6.3 new model compared with nikon 200-500 f5.6 which one is the sharpest and best for birding for me as hobby n birding activity? i will attached with my dx body nikon,could u please to help me give some info thanks alot sir
Vincent Erwin Photography his
:-) D5 BIF and not using BBF ?!
Sony A77ii does shoot at 12 frame per second for about 4 years.Canon & Nikon are well behind Sony in frame per seconds, cos of the mirror
Pros & Cons, Pros & Cons.
do you really think the Sony A77ii could keep up with the Nikon D5? don't think so. lol
'cuz of the mirror.
Nikon 1 series can shoot 60 frames in a second. So go or that, and to be honest, they are much better than they told to be.
Oleg Gontar That's in JPEG only..
gear gear gear ... How about skill and composition .
LOL, spray and pray!
kanukster
12 fps - Sony A9 has 20 fps !
20fps that's a beast
@@kolapyellow7631 Yes but it still a Sony. The D5 makes it look like a toy.
Hahaha...the Nikon Z9???
Your ears are freezing red. Hope you didn't get frost bite.
You can shoot seabirds with something other than a camera..especially gulls stealing your food!