I just did something similar using Oi.Share and my cell phone, photographing our resident household wren using sequential and pro-capture options while sitting at the kitchen table and watching the live view on the phone . Made it easy since I had there is a known target area and the OM-I options.
Lovely video Marc and amazing photos. Not bad for a day off! I have yet to take a decent photo of a Swallow or any of the hirundine species, let alone fledglings. My experience of Mull is the same as yours, always plenty of Swallows. Sadly, there have been massive declines of hirundines in Essex where I am and where I have seen very few this summer. As we know, the collapse in insect populations is largely the reason.
Thanks Richard, very kind mate! Yes, it's an unfortunate reality for most of the UK - although I wonder if it means the hirundines are choosing to migrate elsewhere?
hi Marc Photographing swallows is almost the racing of photography. the swallows are literally as fast as lightning. anyway you have a number of them; very nice photos👏
Fantastic stuff Marc, loved the images of the adult coming in to feed them. Did you set the focus using manual on the occasion as you weren’t at the camera to constantly re-focus.
Thanks Ian! Well I use back button focus, so I'd focus whilst at the camera and then stand back with my wireless shutter and take the shots (with the focus not changing, due to it not being linked to the shutter button).
Thank you John - I have to be honest, I have no idea... It's a cheap one I bought off amazon years ago. There are definitely better ones on the market, but it does the job 😊
2:50 - 4:26 - 6:26 How much megapixels you got left in that photos? And what aperture is exactly used there in those 3, if you could tell, I would be in heaven. Really astonishing images. I think about switching my A7-IV for OM-1.
Hi mate - they're all cropped down to around 13 Megapixels it seems. And all of them were taken at F4. I would suggest giving it a go first before committing. I do love the OM-1, but I wouldn't want you to switch and end up being disappointed if you find that it's not better than your already very capable camera. Thanks for the comment!
@@marchumphreyphotography In really short (I'll try) Sony is great, but I think.. not made for wildlife. For "walk around" wildlife I'd say. I really love my 200-600, but the front heavy build materials and glass, hurts wrist. I am also trapped in cropping. Believe me, I TRY MY BEST to get as close as possible (let's leave alone 2,5 meters MFD of this lens), but: - For birding 600 mm is just.. not enough - Adding x1.4 is not great for this lens. - In 80% scenarios I do photography at APS-C crop so it's 14 mpx left (in that case A1/A7RV is the only one choice) - Weight is 3,15 kg which hurts, the lens is front heavy; I am sweating after 1-2 minutes after trying to handhold this lens in weird unusall positions, like I did run a marathon. - There is no other choice in this system / Sigma 500 mm f5.6 is just giving me even LESS possibilites to capture the wildlife, so if I change for Sigma 500 f5.6 I need also A7R-V for at least 26 mpx at 750 mm crop. You know it's just complicated. From technical aspect I feel OM-1 is 1 stop of the noise behind A7-IV, and 1 stop better than A6400 (weird, but true). I could buy A6700 to compensate focal length problems (I'd have 900 mm), but A6700 is really bad in high ISO from the overall pro test, I'd say 1/3 EV worse than OM-1, and it doesn't have those all features + buffer is small and only last 1 - 1.5 seconds to hold 11 fps, then slows down to like 8 fps. As you can see, it's DIFFICULT to have perfect system, and me as a "travel guy" I rather photograph wildlife in my path in meaning "I go out. I see something. I shoot. I back home", than wait since 4 am with f4.0 BIG GLASS in a tent, covered in masking suits.
@@pentagramyt417 from what you have described, for a birding set-up, the OM-1 + 300mm F4 + 1.4x teleconverter looks like it would be perfect for you. It's a set up and I can hand-hold and shoot using only one hand (I don't do it, but it's possible!). If you can afford it, then the 150-400mm lens would also be an excellent choice, but it is expensive! I moved to olympus/OM for exactly the reason that I was fed up of using a tripod with my big 500mm F4 lens when I shot canon. Good luck with whatever system you choose!
@@marchumphreyphotography Same, as you, I share the same experiences. We both woulduse A1+300MM f2.8 GM with x2.0 TC - if someone would give that for free to us, and that would be a best combo for physical advantages of sensor size (but just and only that), but then calculate the price, and then it's time to scratch your head. 🤔😅 You are happy with your 300 mm, and as you said, you are not tired of having that. That's all the matters. People need to have the same lifestyle, to understand.
Great to see the swallows at such close quarters. Thanks for making this Marc 👍
Thanks for the comment John, always much appreciated!
favourite barbershop quartet, great shots
@@maxcameron9281 thanks max!
Wow! You got a stunning photo of Barn Swallows. A big LIKE from me. Thanks for sharing. Happy birding!!!!
Thanks Cheiko!!
Fantastic! Loved seeing the different setups and results.
Thank you Louisa 😀 I'm glad you enjoyed!
Nice video again Marc! Beautiful pictures of the swallows👏
Thank you Iris - how lucky to have them at the lodge!
I just did something similar using Oi.Share and my cell phone, photographing our resident household wren using sequential and pro-capture options while sitting at the kitchen table and watching the live view on the phone . Made it easy since I had there is a known target area and the OM-I options.
Oh very nice - yes it's a great feature being able to access that on your phone, though I had issues with connection last time I tried...
Glad you enjoyed your day off with the family of swallows nice and close 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks Dave 😀
Lovely video Marc and amazing photos. Not bad for a day off! I have yet to take a decent photo of a Swallow or any of the hirundine species, let alone fledglings. My experience of Mull is the same as yours, always plenty of Swallows. Sadly, there have been massive declines of hirundines in Essex where I am and where I have seen very few this summer. As we know, the collapse in insect populations is largely the reason.
Thanks Richard, very kind mate! Yes, it's an unfortunate reality for most of the UK - although I wonder if it means the hirundines are choosing to migrate elsewhere?
hi Marc
Photographing swallows is almost the racing of photography. the swallows are literally as fast as lightning. anyway you have a number of them; very nice photos👏
Thanks very much!
Lovely photos and video. What a day off. Can’t wait to get back to mull
Cheers Stephen, much appreciated 😊
Indescribable! Beautiful! P.S.; How many photos did you take?
Thanks Richard! Haha, I actually don't know - I think upwards of 5,000
Fantastic stuff Marc, loved the images of the adult coming in to feed them. Did you set the focus using manual on the occasion as you weren’t at the camera to constantly re-focus.
Thanks Ian! Well I use back button focus, so I'd focus whilst at the camera and then stand back with my wireless shutter and take the shots (with the focus not changing, due to it not being linked to the shutter button).
@@marchumphreyphotography thanks for sharing that Marc brilliant 👍
@@ianwilsonwildlifephotography no worries Ian!
Great video Marc. which shutter release are you using?
Thank you John - I have to be honest, I have no idea... It's a cheap one I bought off amazon years ago. There are definitely better ones on the market, but it does the job 😊
Some lovely photos Marc, not easy to capture Swallows. Did you use Pro Capture at all for some of those stills?
Thanks Chris! No I didn't use Pro Capture for this, because I had the benefit of seeing the Swallows coming in to feed, so there wasn't any need
2:50 - 4:26 - 6:26 How much megapixels you got left in that photos? And what aperture is exactly used there in those 3, if you could tell, I would be in heaven.
Really astonishing images. I think about switching my A7-IV for OM-1.
Hi mate - they're all cropped down to around 13 Megapixels it seems. And all of them were taken at F4. I would suggest giving it a go first before committing. I do love the OM-1, but I wouldn't want you to switch and end up being disappointed if you find that it's not better than your already very capable camera. Thanks for the comment!
@@marchumphreyphotography In really short (I'll try) Sony is great, but I think.. not made for wildlife. For "walk around" wildlife I'd say. I really love my 200-600, but the front heavy build materials and glass, hurts wrist. I am also trapped in cropping. Believe me, I TRY MY BEST to get as close as possible (let's leave alone 2,5 meters MFD of this lens), but:
- For birding 600 mm is just.. not enough
- Adding x1.4 is not great for this lens.
- In 80% scenarios I do photography at APS-C crop so it's 14 mpx left (in that case A1/A7RV is the only one choice)
- Weight is 3,15 kg which hurts, the lens is front heavy; I am sweating after 1-2 minutes after trying to handhold this lens in weird unusall positions, like I did run a marathon.
- There is no other choice in this system / Sigma 500 mm f5.6 is just giving me even LESS possibilites to capture the wildlife, so if I change for Sigma 500 f5.6 I need also A7R-V for at least 26 mpx at 750 mm crop. You know it's just complicated.
From technical aspect I feel OM-1 is 1 stop of the noise behind A7-IV, and 1 stop better than A6400 (weird, but true). I could buy A6700 to compensate focal length problems (I'd have 900 mm), but A6700 is really bad in high ISO from the overall pro test, I'd say 1/3 EV worse than OM-1, and it doesn't have those all features + buffer is small and only last 1 - 1.5 seconds to hold 11 fps, then slows down to like 8 fps.
As you can see, it's DIFFICULT to have perfect system, and me as a "travel guy" I rather photograph wildlife in my path in meaning "I go out. I see something. I shoot. I back home", than wait since 4 am with f4.0 BIG GLASS in a tent, covered in masking suits.
@@pentagramyt417 from what you have described, for a birding set-up, the OM-1 + 300mm F4 + 1.4x teleconverter looks like it would be perfect for you. It's a set up and I can hand-hold and shoot using only one hand (I don't do it, but it's possible!). If you can afford it, then the 150-400mm lens would also be an excellent choice, but it is expensive!
I moved to olympus/OM for exactly the reason that I was fed up of using a tripod with my big 500mm F4 lens when I shot canon.
Good luck with whatever system you choose!
@@marchumphreyphotography Same, as you, I share the same experiences. We both woulduse A1+300MM f2.8 GM with x2.0 TC - if someone would give that for free to us, and that would be a best combo for physical advantages of sensor size (but just and only that), but then calculate the price, and then it's time to scratch your head. 🤔😅 You are happy with your 300 mm, and as you said, you are not tired of having that. That's all the matters. People need to have the same lifestyle, to understand.
....and how is the drone?
good question, shall investigate when i get back to bristol...