Comments on: Many Many Lessons including: why I chose the 300 II/1D X in low light conditions, the 7D II viewfinder level, a short 7D II User’s Guide Viewfinder Display excerpt, adding green (marsh grass) to your images, and why to love hazy sun https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2015/04/28/many-many-lessons-including-why-i-chose-the-300-ii1d-x-in-low-light-conditions-the-7d-ii-viewfinder-level-a-short-7d-ii-users-guide-viewfinder-display-excerpt-adding-green-marsh-grass-to-your/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Sun, 17 May 2015 07:05:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 By: Mal Graham https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2015/04/28/many-many-lessons-including-why-i-chose-the-300-ii1d-x-in-low-light-conditions-the-7d-ii-viewfinder-level-a-short-7d-ii-users-guide-viewfinder-display-excerpt-adding-green-marsh-grass-to-your/comment-page-1/#comment-1718332 Sun, 17 May 2015 07:05:03 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=26609#comment-1718332 #3 definitely my favourite. The feather detail, head position, catch-light in the eye, and colours, all give it the edge for me.

I’d say standing allowed you to get a cleaner image without grass blades obscuring the bird (and also preventing the grass crossing over your AF points and throwing out the focus).

]]> By: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2015/04/28/many-many-lessons-including-why-i-chose-the-300-ii1d-x-in-low-light-conditions-the-7d-ii-viewfinder-level-a-short-7d-ii-users-guide-viewfinder-display-excerpt-adding-green-marsh-grass-to-your/comment-page-1/#comment-1716602 Fri, 01 May 2015 13:22:03 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=26609#comment-1716602 In reply to graham hedrick.

Hi Graham,

I do not like any of the Really Wrong Stuff tripods or heads; the tripods are heavy and cumbersome, and the ballheads have so many knobs that I find them impossible to use. Plus, the stuff costs a ton. You can use a Mongoose M3.6 to either the left or the right of the camera body. My recommendation depends on the lens.

I used the 800 on my Mongoose for all the four years that I owned it and once made a sharp image with it at 1/6 second.

If you go for a 100-400II at some point I would of course appreciate your using our link. artie

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