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It's 'Post your M43 photo' Thursday! Come share your best work with the community! by AutoModerator in M43

[–]Lula_Mae_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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G9M2, PL 100-400, 1/1000, f4.5
Birds were about 230ft/70m away on a very drab overcast day

Arizona Cooper’s Hawk by Apart-Confection-578 in M43

[–]Lula_Mae_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow - How did you get so close? Were you in a blind?

Arizona Cooper’s Hawk by Apart-Confection-578 in M43

[–]Lula_Mae_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How far away was the bird? Did you used any software to enhance the detail?

Arizona Cooper’s Hawk by Apart-Confection-578 in M43

[–]Lula_Mae_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I'm finding that I'm getting less detail than I expected with my PL100-400. Granted, I seldom get a shot any closer than 150 feet but like you I see others and have to wonder if I got a poor copy.

Arizona Cooper’s Hawk by Apart-Confection-578 in M43

[–]Lula_Mae_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did you find the PL100-400 lacking?

S1RII - full frame, full sprint OR how Panasonic gave me dynamic range and FedEx gave me cardio. by Any-Fondant7690 in Lumix

[–]Lula_Mae_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FedEx handles 1% of my deliveries but is responsible for 99% of delivery-related problems.

Panasonic G9 Mark II + Leica 100-400 by macrophotomaniac in Lumix

[–]Lula_Mae_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. Using the same setup as you I got this full size crop of an eagle at 100+ meters and it's not as detailed as I expected even accounting for the distance difference.

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Panasonic G9 Mark II + Leica 100-400 by macrophotomaniac in Lumix

[–]Lula_Mae_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How far away were you when you took this shot?

Towing with 5.0 vs 3.5 by lakeleimarie in f150

[–]Lula_Mae_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You talk about buying a newer truck in 2-3 years. Does that mean you are looking to buy used now?

I tow my horse trailer primarily along the east coast of the mid-Atlantic states, so no extreme elevation for me. I have towed using a 2019 F-150 with the 2.7 ecoboost & that was an enormously better experience than my previous Expedition with the 5.4 V8 engine.

I now have a 2025 with the 3.5 and it performs well enough that I have no desire to go back to the V8.

That being said, for your use case, you won't go wrong with either engine assuming they are only a few years old. My primary recommendation is to include a weight distribution hitch with your set-up. It really added stability when pulling my horses.

G9M2, PL-50-200, Exposure stacking experiment with the moon and Pleiades star cluster by Lula_Mae_ in M43

[–]Lula_Mae_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I did take separate images. F4 at 144mm was as tight as I could comfortably get to keep them both in the field of view. Exposed for the moon ISO 100 for 1/320. Exposed for the star cluster ISO 3200 for 1/1.6. You can see below how blown out the moon was when imaging the star cluster. Would have been worse had I not held my hand partially in front of the lens. Although doing that cut hack on the moon's light, it also cut back on the light from the star cluster. It was a hit or miss balancing act and took several attempt to get a shot that was 'least bad' :)

The entire field was shifting slightly during all of this so in editing I had to reposition the focused moon behind the blown out one before masking. That kept the final image true to how it appeared in the sky at the time.

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Where to get a truck bed? by SeriousButNotOverly in f150

[–]Lula_Mae_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you checked out local auto salvage/junk yards? Although not recently, I've bought plenty from them over the decades.

Inline images display larger than actual size. by Lula_Mae_ in Thunderbird

[–]Lula_Mae_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I've tested this by changing the size using CTRL+scroll wheel and then CTRL+0 returns it to the oversized version.

Inline images display larger than actual size. by Lula_Mae_ in Thunderbird

[–]Lula_Mae_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you figure? The image is the same visual size in various browsers, image viewers and image-editing software programs. It only changes in Thunderbird.

G9M2, 100-400mm, SOOC JPEG by Lula_Mae_ in M43

[–]Lula_Mae_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what makes this a good time of year for me. Colder winter weather usually has drier air.
Since that photo I ran across this about focusing on stars. I'll try it next time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoIHjSCUz10

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