Canon R5, EF 600mm f/4L IS III USM Lens & EF 1.4X III extender = 840mm of awesome - river treasures!

[@alansparrow6396]

Great time your having John .Have a great day😁😁😁😁😁😁😁👍👍👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@JonnyPink65]

I thank you!! 🙏💖🤗

[@johnjuby6184]

Wow! I enjoy and appreciate your tech talk, and learn. But, your composition and skill is beyond belief! You are the gear that makes these great photographs happen, for sure.

[@JonnyPink65]

Thank you, thank you!!! I am just out to have an awesome time and hope my passion comes through. I feel extremely fortunate to be able to shoot the gear I do and more importantly, to share. The gear does help but it all about just getting out there to have fun. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! 🙏💖🤗

[@adrianalfordphotography]

Omg! Those images are insane John, just wow! Brilliant video as always man. Gosh those dragonfly shots are so good. Thanks for sharing the adventure out buddy 👍🙏

[@JonnyPink65]

Thank you, thank you Adrian. This is what I call a really perfect length for birding and even dragonflies. I have to back up many times for the minimum focus distance (I am the zoom), but when it fills the frame....... 840mm at F5.6 - awesome. The other thing that continually impressed me it the autofocus. That is another reason i want to try the A6700 to see how awesome that AF is. Thank you, thank you for letting me share. I hope you are having a fantastic week my friend!! 🙏💖🤗

[@realnikonlover6207]

Just love your videos John. Always classy and straight forward. No BS and full of goodness.

[@JonnyPink65]

I thank you, thank you!!! 🙏💖🤗

[@petergreen-gh2hm]

You are a good teacher John

[@JonnyPink65]

Thank you, thank you!!! 🙏💖🤗

[@petergreen-gh2hm]

@@JonnyPink65 rest in peace Sinead

[@JonnyPink65]

@@petergreen-gh2hm My wife told me about that ...... 😢 she was so young.....

[@Chrispitchwildlife]

Nice video Jonny! Lovely photos as well. Thank you for sharing! 😀

[@JonnyPink65]

Thank you Chris!!! 🙏💖🤗

[@chosenbydesign9007]

Beautiful lens, beautiful images.

[@JonnyPink65]

Thank you, thank you!! 🙏💖🤗

[@allenfutrelle9090]

Those small egrets are snowy egrets...yellow feet. Great job!

[@JonnyPink65]

Thank you, thank you!!! Or golden slippers depending on where you are from. Beautiful either way. 🙏🤗💖

[@keenanpetualang]

Amazing sir.

[@JonnyPink65]

Thank you, thank you!! 🙏💖🤗

[@Eli4Bill]

Stunning, amazing images with superb detail John! Wow!! Also appreciate your comments regarding composition, exposure, etc, R5 and the 600 F4, what an awesome combination (with the tele). Portrait of the duck, with the colors, beads of water……that was stupendous!

[@JonnyPink65]

Thank you Bill!!!! I am really enjoying this set up...... it blows my mind. The detail you can pull up in the raw files are insane!!! 🙏🤗💖

[@Eli4Bill]

@@JonnyPink65 👍👍

[@peterviragphoto]

Superb images once again buddy. The image quality of this combo is top notch. Also the footage you captured of the stilt was magnificent, gonna watch it again on my telly:)

[@JonnyPink65]

Thank you Peter!!! I watch almost everything on our big TV downstairs so that I can really see what my stuff and others look like. Seeing it on a phone is .... ehhh, but seeing your stuff, Adrian's stuff, my stuff, James' stuff in 4K on a big screen.... That is how I want to see everything. Thank you, thank you!!! 🙏🤗💖

[@TheWildlifeGallery388]

man those primes really deliver the goods - I've got the very same setup - R5 with a Ver2 600mm - it has really changed the game for me - on another note, with auto-iso I've been finding that it gets it wrong a fair amount, especially on white subjects, so I've been shooting full manual except for birds in the flight. I've found with static subjects I typically have plenty of time to pay attention to the Histogram and run the iso dial up or down to make the 'mood" of the photo I want, and with white subjects or subjects with white, I typically under expose 2-stops and have plenty of detail there and bring the rest back in post. my R5 I have set for triple back button auto-focus so if a bird goes to take flight I simply switch to that button. GREAT VIDEO JOHN

[@JonnyPink65]

Thank you, thank you!!! I watch my histogram all the time too. I check my photos now an again in the back to see if I am clipping, and I have one of the buttons on the front set so I can quickly change my exposure compensation to save the highlights. I have mine set a little different with one for single point focus, one for eye tracking and the another so I can quickly switch focus points when i see a dragonfly. I have my R7 set the same way, but I have to think going between the two cameras LOL. 🙏💖🤗

[@blueyorks6884]

Great video John, What are photos like cropped without the teleconverter, are they still sharp.

[@JonnyPink65]

Thank you!! Maybe just a wee bit different but i don't think you would notice unless you are pixel peeping...... and even then, I prefer to fill my frame as much as I can. The more you can fill the frame when the focus is spot on 100% (no system is perfect and all miss here and there), the more data you have and the shaper image image is when you process. With a prime at this distance, no one would notice any difference. 🙏🤗💖

[@ggwildlife]

awesome video John the 4k on my 4k 55inch TV is outstanding, great photos and video of the wildlife, just one Q .. have you been using jpegs rather than raw? look forward as always to the next one.

[@JonnyPink65]

Thank you, thank you!!! 99.999% of the time, I use my edited RAW files. When i do you a JPEG out of camera, I list it as such. I shoot in both JPEG and RAW files so that I can quickly go through everything, keep what I want and dump the rest - I have done it that way ....... well, since I started shouting digital. The new tech is just do darn good that even the JPEGs right out of camera look pretty good. In this video, I don't think I used any JPEGs out of camera, but I edited this about two weeks ago LOL, so without watching it.... At about 04:57, I have a series of hawk shots that are right out camera with no editing. If I had edited each one, you could have seen the detail and I would have lifted the shadows. OK, I did a quick scan of the photos in this one and other than the hawk shots listed as JPEGs out of camera, all the other photos are my edited photos. I like the editing and it is a skill that should be practiced just like shooting. I hope I answered your question and not too long winded!!! 🙏🤗💖

[@ggwildlife]

@@JonnyPink65 thank you i loved the lengthy reply. much appreciated look forward to the next one :)

[@JonnyPink65]

@@ggwildlife Thank you!! 💖🤗

[@forced_perspective]

Whoa how do you focus on a flying insect with a prime lens 840mm? Seems like an amazing combo

[@JonnyPink65]

Thank you. The dragonflies have patterns and keep going to the same place while hunting. I use the old technique of focusing on something near where they were and wait. When the hover there again, I hit eye AF and it usually locks on. I am telling you - this new tech is off the charts amazing..... and this is 3 years old - ancient!!! Shooting video, you have seen how it locks onto the eye. New gear is really amazing...... and this is not new anymore LOL. Let me know when you guys are in town and lets go sit there for a bit!! 🙏💖🤗

[@snappycanon]

Hi 2:24 you didn't say why you got the EF over the RF ?

[@JonnyPink65]

You know.... at that time, it was a conscious decision and I think it was so that I didn't have to buy another extender that I bought any way, and it would work on my older camera..... I think LOL In hind sight, the RF version might have been the way to go so I dont have to use the adapter. Same weight, same lens. 🙏🤗💖

[@snappycanon]

@@JonnyPink65 Thank you . The EF 600 MKIII at a grey import site I have used in the UK is now only £9999 new Best I can find the 600mm RF is £14,175.00 Would like the RF but I want the New R5 MK 2 as well so EF it is

[@JonnyPink65]

@@snappycanon Fantastic choice!!! I have bough grey many times figuring that I could have it fixed if it broke or just by another. Even if you buy from B&H used, it is on you to have it fixed if it breaks - I would rather save the money. Good choice!! 🙏🤗💖 PS - I am looking forward tot he R5II s well.

[@AmateurPhotographer12]

Come on man! Make more videos with the d800 it’s so hard to find people using it for birds

[@JonnyPink65]

I will do that. I will need to again rent a long F mount lens do that that since the only long lens I have is my old 300mm F2.8 but it is amazing. I am going out again later today to shoot dragonflies so I may bring that along. Thank you for the suggestion!! 🙏🤗💖

[@AmateurPhotographer12]

@@JonnyPink65 Thank you! Got a like man!

[@JonnyPink65]

@@AmateurPhotographer12 Again, thank you!!! 🙏🤗💖

[@AmateurPhotographer12]

@@JonnyPink65no problem!

[@ElBoyoElectronico]

Awesome photos 😮 I am saving up for the II version, as the RF version is absurdly expensive. It will probably still take a while, but it is nice to know that it will work so well with the R5.

[@JonnyPink65]

It will work perfectly with you the R5 - in fact, all the old EF glass works flawlessly adapted to the new bodies!!! For a long time, I was using my 500 F4 that was the 1st version and it was amazing. I sold just about all my old gear to get this lens and it is amazing. You will enjoy shooting it when you get it!!! 🙏🤗💖

[@blisteringbooks2428]

OK, some good images, but hey, check before you post. Los ANGES river. I know that if I had the finances I would go for an EF mount, cheaper, and you can use on a DSLR. I have a 400 f2.8, non IS, but it is so heavy! I noticed you were shooting .jpg, raw is overrated, the software has more experience than you. I use the second slot for cRAW, but almost never even look at them.

[@JonnyPink65]

Ha - I had watched it so many times and just missed that - it happens. Its KZbin so not that big a deal. I have an older 100-400 that I used on either my 90D or R7 but I have never really considered a 400mm to be a real wildlife lens unless on a crop body or with an extender - no more than a 1.4 though. I shoot i both JPEG and RAW. For me, even when I did events, I always found it better for going through the images to pick the best ones to present I prefer it that way. I process the raw images I want and dump everything else. Everyone has a different way of doing things, but this is what works quickly for me. I started that many, many years ago when going through thousands of photos from an event and something I still use today. In some I show JPEGS from the camera as it is really good these days and I list them that way. I do prefer my editing images though. As far as experience, the one thing software will never have is the personal expression that each of us has that makes our photos ours. I prefer my shots more on the darker side or just a little more moody. None of the stuff we use is perfect and we all have differing opinions. It is art , neither right or wrong, and unique!! Thankyou for bringing that to my attention - I just created a new place. 🙏💖🤗

[@shademanirvanipour6870]

You need over £5.000 to as much as £10.000 to buy one of these canon lenses

[@JonnyPink65]

True but that is what credit is for.... 😅🤣 I joke and they are amazing - even the older ones that are much less expensive are still awesome and fun to shoot, but they do have limitations. They are heavy, YOU are the zoom by backing up, and they do struggle with AF at times at their minimum focus distance. The newer 200-800 is an AWESOME alternative that offers a lot at a lower price and weight. I spend money stupidly that I dont have (it is a tax write off), and I feel fortunate that I can. I try to show what these products offer if you decide to take the plunge into the gear acquisition rabbit hole. Fun to have but not a lens I can walk with for more than a couple of hours. The 200-800..... now that is a different story. 🙏💖🤗