Canon RF800 f11, 600 f11 and 100-500 f7.1, Can You Take Nice Shots at f11 or f22? Let's Find Out!!

g'day and welcome to the channel i recently spent three and a half days solid birding with good mate and fellow youtuber jan wagner so i was very grateful to yan for inviting me down to melbourne to test out canon's new telephoto lenses those being the rf 6 and 800 f lenses and the canon rf 100 to 500 i was really excited to try out these lenses and see how they perform so we both took thousands of images and i highly suggest you jump over to his channel subscribe and check out all his photos and his thoughts on the lenses as well so in today's video i just want to share with you some of the photos that i took over the weekend i took 8 000 images and today i'm just going to showcase the best so we visited a number of different habitats the beach the forest we tried it in low light and direct light so i was able to capture lots of different photos which will help test these lenses so that you can have some idea of how they'll perform wherever you are i'll be sure to do an actual proper technical review later on today's just about looking at some photos and obviously just a quick disclaimer these photos i'm about to show are the best that i got i took plenty of bad photos plenty of blurry photos i don't want you thinking i've just gone out with these lenses and taken non-stop beautiful photos that's just not the case so my trip started with a three and a half hour drive down to melbourne i met yarn in a local park where there'd been reports of gang gang cockatoos so i thought the 100 to 500 would be the perfect lens for these gang gangs because you can often get quite close i was immediately struck with just how light the lens is i couldn't actually believe it it's only 300 odd grams less than the 100 to 400 but the weight difference was definitely noticeable it just seemed really well balanced so it didn't take long before we heard the birds feeding it's a very distinctive sound as they as they bite open these fruits for the seeds in the middle so the versatility of the zoom was instantly apparent we approached this bird and the bird was almost too big in my frame so i was able to zoom out to 300 millimeters and capture this feeding pose i quite liked how it had those berries coming out of its mouth i felt that there were a few distracting elements in this shot and i thought i might try an actual head shot and so i was simply able to turn the zoom on the lens and go into 500 millimeters and then i was cropped that image in and we got this beautiful headshot it's such an advantage being able to zoom in and out and change your framing without having to move i'm so used to using primes where you have to walk backwards or walk forwards to do this i quickly checked on the back of camera and i was pretty impressed with how sharp these images were so i was looking forward to seeing how the remainder of the shots would turn out but as we look for these birds it turned out to be very difficult to get shots with nice backgrounds as you can see in this shot when you zoom out your depth of field increases and we can see how the light was hitting the background and it just wasn't very pleasing which made it quite difficult so i sort of resorted to just getting head shots by doing that by using 500 millimeters getting close to the birds drastically reduces our depth of field and improves those backgrounds so we came across this juvenile male you can see how the red feathers are just starting to come in i used 500 millimeters got close and i was really happy with this shot that i got the framing with a few of the leaves around its head the dark background kind of works in the shot for me and i just loved the detail the eye contact and i was happy to take this shot so the last shot i got in this session was another head shot of a juvenile male i quite like the background in this one and obviously that eye contact again i was really impressed with just how sharp it was when i was looking on the back of the camera i was thinking this is like as sharp as my 500 millimeter prime this lens delivers almost prime quality and a zoom which is pretty amazing and i must admit the ability to just walk around hand-held without being stuck to a tripod because we were going up hills through bushes it just would have been almost impossible lugging around a heavy prime and trying to set it up with a tripod just being able to shoot handheld zooming in and out made this a pleasurable shooting experience and i don't think any other lens could quite compare or get us the shots that we got so when i was walking back to the car park i spotted the the white back magpie version that they get in melbourne so the magpies up here have black backs so i wanted just to get a shot because i didn't have any of the white back so i just dropped down onto the ground i laid down with the lens framed up the bird hit the shutter took a number of photos and i was pretty happy with the result i got up and walked back to the car so it was such a pleasure being able to adapt quickly knowing i had good quality images and i knew they were going to be sharp it really was a pleasure the next morning we decided to return to the forest we visited previously just to try out the canon f11 lenses and really low light and a dark forest one of the biggest complaints with these lenses is that they're just unusable in low light due to that high iso and the low shutter speed so we were keen to just try them out for ourselves and see how they performed we managed to get two birds on the perch and i instantly hit that shutter and took lots of photos i immediately noticed that the af was a lot slower and less accurate than the 100 to 500 and using these f11 lenses the af coverage actually shrinks so with the f11 lenses your af coverage reduces to a square in the middle of the frame similar to the 5d4 size the auto iaf won't work outside this box so it's just something to be aware of but i managed to get those birds in the frame and rattle off some shots and i was pretty happy with how this shot turned out now as you would expect it had a fair bit of noise at 12 800 and the detail was lacking when you zoom in however once you process the image and you view it sort of full frame i was pretty happy with the shot with the power of topaz de noise and a bit of photoshop the photo's cleaned up really well once i've taken a few shots with the 600 i decided to switch over to the 800 obviously a lot more focal length now and it was immediately obvious in the viewfinder just how much bigger the perch and the bird was and i had a robin land on there and i started taking photos and then a second birds landed on the perch and i just simply couldn't fit it in because i had too much focal length and that is an issue with 800 millimeters but the benefit of that is the bird actually now has a lot more detail so when we look at this shot it actually looks really good even at that iso 12 800. so i actually ended up taking another shot of just the pert i knew that that second bird was in the frame and i didn't want it there so i took another shot of the perch and that's actually a good tip just take photos of your perch without the birds on them and then you have access to that file later on in post-processing so overall both lenses work pretty well the iq was lacking the af did struggle but you could definitely take photos at 12 8 in low light conditions and get photos that you know i'm still happy with now as we were packing up i just had the 800 and the r6 in my hand and i spotted a eastern yellow robin land on a tree just on its own not far away so i thought i might as well get a shot that looks quite nice so i've walked over to the robin you know put the camera up focused on the bird took some shots and then afterwards i looked at the camera and noticed i was at iso 12800 f11 and 320th of a shutter speed handheld and i got this shot i was actually pretty amazed that you know i really like this shot and to think that i got that with a lens that costs less than a thousand us that's pretty impressive so let me know in the comments if you would be happy with these shots for the afternoon we decided to head back to the gang gangs for another shot at them and i decided to hold on to the 800 and give that a whirl and see if i could take photos with that awful minimum focus distance of six meters you know that's probably one of the biggest weaknesses of this lens just means you've got to stand back a lot further so i was keen to try it with these gang gangs and see if i could do that we got lucky pretty quickly and we found a male feeding so with the 800 i was able to get a really good head shot i think i must have been about six meters away when i took this and i just love how this shot turned out the beautiful head the curled up feathers the eye contact you know the out of focus background even at f11 overall i stoked to capture this and what a great way to start the session and it was apparent to me again how much of a pleasure it is to have a light lens the 800 is super light you could hand hold this all day long so to have 800 millimeters in such a light package is a real bonus now as we were walking around looking for some gang gangs i spotted a noisy miner up in a tree a very common bird in australia and one people often overlook but i thought hey it's on an open perch just lifted the camera up took a photo and looked on the back of the camera because i had so much focal length the bird was fairly big in the frame and i quite liked this pose and overall i was happy with the shot just another shot to add to the bank so as we were walking around we couldn't hear any gang gangs and i must admit we'd probably been birding for about 12 hours my legs were killing me my feet were really sore and i was ready to pack up and go home but to yarn's credit he suggested we do one more lap at the park and i think this is something people probably don't fully appreciate when it comes to birding luck comes to those that put in the time and my legs have quickly learned that yarn likes to put in a lot of time and that's one of the key reasons he has so much success as we were coming to the end of our final lap we spotted two people with their mobile phones out pointing them towards a tree and we both instantly knew that there were gang gangs there these people were photographing the gang gangs so we've approached those people have walked off and sure enough male and female down low both of us got excited again got ourselves into a good position i focused on the female and there was a eucalypt tree as the background took lots of shots and a crest came up rattled off a heap of shots and i was actually really impressed with just how sharp and the detail captured in this because of that fixed f11 i was using iso 6400 but the r6 can handle that no problem whatsoever as we were photographing this pair we heard a lot of other birds circling around and start landing and what happened over the next half an hour is what you sort of dream of with birding it was just birds everywhere opportunities everywhere we didn't know what to shoot where to shoot yarn went off and he was shooting and i was shooting and next minute i could hear yan yelling there's two birds in the open there's two birds in the open quick quick he was yelling at me so i've run towards him i could hear him yelling i've come towards him and sure enough there was a male and a female on a perch out in the open and this is sort of the shot you dream of you know a male and a female like this so with my 800 millimeters i've sort of stood on the hill tried to get eye level held up the camera in the lens and just focused on the birds and just hammered away at that shutter hoping these were going to be sharp shots so i've managed to get this shot of this pier and i have to admit i'm over the moon with a shot now the iq is lacking but it doesn't really matter behaviour more than makes up for it and when you're sort of got this sort of wider angle the iq isn't as important the light's good the background's good overall a super image that i was stoked to capture now i thought the session was over because the sun was just starting to set but we heard some long build corrallers calling over on a hill my old legs carried me towards this hill and as we climbed the hill we saw probably the biggest flock of long build corellas we've ever seen probably a hundred birds playing in the grass now i wanted to capture some you know playful behaviour of these corellas but i misjudged the actual focal length because i've laid down on the ground trying to capture it and the birds were just too big in the frame and i missed these action shots so i could have moved backwards but by the time i did that the birds had moved and i'd missed that moment it's just something i guess if you use this lens more you'd be better able to judge the distance that you need to be now i did get this one shot of the bird giving us a nice pose as it played with a stick which i was happy to cap so after 14 hours of birding we hopped into the yarn's truck and we had an hour to drive back to his place and obviously when we're driving back i was reflecting on just how well the 800 performed in the session so after a very short sleep we were up again very early back in his truck driving south of melbourne towards the beach to look for the beautiful hooded plover i was really happy when there were no clouds the sun hadn't quite risen yet we arrived at the beach so i haven't been to the beach for quite a while and i was absolutely in my element as we got there the sun was just coming up you know the waves were crashing it really was a beautiful scene we've made our way down these stairs out onto the beach started walking on the beach looking for these hooded plovers you know i was just absolutely excited and filled with anticipation of what was ahead and i decided to use the 800 just for that extra reach because the plovers are actually quite small birds so we walked along the beach and there were three birds ahead of us so two adults and a young bird i really wanted to capture all three birds together but that would be a real challenge to get them all sharp and all looking at me with the depth of field of the 800 but i've laid down on the ground and i used the technique that i often use when photographing multiple birds i simply photographed each bird separately i just moved the focus point with the traditional af photograph the first bird middle bird and third bird and then in post-processing i've actually merged those three images together and i've come up with this image a really nice pano of the scene of the three birds and again we had beautiful morning light the f11 has worked fine with the background overall i'm really happy with this image and i'll gladly add it to my collection so i lay down on the water's edge just watching the birds as they fed they often follow the water line and whenever i photograph shorebirds i'm really trying to get some sort of behavior or action so a foot up some sort of movement and you generally need pretty good auto focus to do this now the 800 auto focus leaves a little bit to be desired because if you have smaller box and it's just not as fast or accurate as the 100 to 500 or my prime however i persisted and i did manage to get this shot so i was very happy with this pose with the bird moving through the water i also wanted a few shots of the adults because they do look quite a bit different with that distinctive black head now a lot of seaweed had actually washed up onto the beach and the birds were sort of feeding around the seaweed so i thought that would make quite an interesting shot so i sort of crawled towards the birds i've got down low i waited for the bird to sort of be in the open because i always like to get the feet i'm not a big fan when you sort of cut half the bird off or you miss the feet but i did like that little pile of seaweed to give you the sense of where the bird is and the habitat the seaweed in the background the nice light overall the scene just works for me now my iso had dropped to 1600 because we were getting a bit more light so we decided to keep walking up the beach because we spotted some seagulls and we really wanted to try out the two times converter on the 800 millimeter lens making it a 1600 f-22 which is just ridiculous to have 1600 millimeters is you know three times as much focal length as my 500 millimeter prime and if you told me that you could take photos at 1600 f22 i would have told you you're crazy i wasn't expecting a lot but i thought it was worth a try we put the two times on approach these seagulls i've got down low i've got pretty close i've framed up this gull taking a hip a shot that was when i looked on the back of the camera i was shocked to be honest i just didn't think it would have that much detail and be that sharp it blew me away now we were shooting in the very best conditions we had a lot of light i was really close i was down low basically you can't get any better than that so any other photos you get with this combination is going to be worse than that now there was also a crested turn that allowed a nice headshot again performed very well background has backgrounds out of focus just purely because it's so far away and i was so close i thought a good thing to try and test would be a bird that was a long distance away and there was a pacific gull that had actually flown over onto a onto some rocks and there was a big channel between us it was it was a long way off i reckon 50 to 50 to 80 meters away this this gull picked up the lens and i was surprised with just how big the bird was 1600 millimeters is uh that's a lot of focal length now i've focused on the bird i've taken some shots when i looked on the back of the camera i was pretty happy with the actual framing of it the actual photo because the depth of field has included some of the water you know we've got the rocks it's a nice over the shoulder pose overall really happy with it but when we zoom in we can clearly see that the detail has disappeared you would expect that at this focal length but overall i'm actually happy with this and i will add this photo to my collection just before you rush out getting your two times just know you're going to need a lot of light to be able to capture these so sort of middle of the day bright sunlight to even photograph it so in the afternoon we drove out to the western treatment plant we noticed lots of swallows and martins flying around actually there were heaps of them so they were landing on these on this dry vegetation and i thought why not we'll get a few shots so i still have the 800 i've approached these martins and welcome swallows and took a number of shots and i was pretty happy with how this shot turned out you know you've got the distinctive white back of the fairy martin believe it or not when i checked my records this was the first photo i'd ever taken of this species this is actually australian bird 379 for me so a real bonus for the day so as we were driving around we noticed hundreds of australian shell ducks i don't have any decent photos of these shell ducts because they're so flighty however we spotted a male and female out in the middle of this lake on a rock it actually was quite a nice scene it was way too far away so i decided to actually put the two times on the 800 and shoot at 1600 f-22 again i actually handed the lens and camera to yarn and that he was in the driver's seat and he's just pointed out the window of the truck taken these photos we weren't expecting much to be honest and we've continued driving on it wasn't until i got home and i looked at the image that it captured and again i was pretty shocked sure the background's rubbish pose is fantastic you've got two birds the detail's okay and it's a shot i never would have got if i hadn't had this combination and i was very happy to add this to my collection again as we drove around we heard the distinctive call of the golden headed cysticular so we stopped and i managed to get this far-off photo of a little bird in the reeds and that's how we saw them all around so we got out and played a bit of a call to attract the birds closer i was pretty happy when the birds landed on this nice vegetation allowing these shots now i got myself down low using the 800 focused on the birds and i put that background out of focus just because it was so far away for whatever reason the lens struggled a bit in this scenario i got quite a few soft shots but i did get a couple of sharp ones but i was a little bit disappointed with how many shots were unusable so we had one more day of birding together and we decided to drive out into this beautiful forest with massive eucalypts lots of tree ferns it really was a beautiful spot now we went there looking for the beautiful flame robin and it didn't take us too long to find them there actually been a grader going down the road pushing soil and dirt to the side and the birds were actually feeding in this dirt looking for bugs and whatnot we simply took out an old tripod attached a perch to it plonked it down where the birds were feeding put some mealworms on the perch and before long a bird had jumped up and started feeding on it now to our surprise there was actually a young bird there a fledgling that probably hadn't left the nest all that long ago now this young birds hopped up onto our perch and started calling it's like it knew the food was there and saying someone feed me adult bird has jumped up onto the perch it's grabbed a couple of the worms and it's fed the bird all the while we're both standing there just firing away both hand-held we i think i had the 100 to 500 at this point and we took lots and lots of photos and i was very happy with this the only downside is the the adult bird for whatever reason was missing its tail which is a bit of a bummer but overall i was really happy to capture these two birds in the one frame so once i'd taken a couple of shots at the 100 to 500 i decided to grab the 600 because i'd largely ignored this lens i really didn't take that many photos with it because i just preferred the focal length of the 800 but the 600 was really light we had the flame robin jump up onto another perch i've taken a number of shots handheld and look the detail is very good the background's been dissolved even at f11 the bird looks great iso 3200 very happy with how this shot turned out so we left the forest it only seemed right to head back to the gang gangs for our final session so we've got there i've decided to use the 100 to 500 again because it's just such a good lens so we walked around the park looking for the gang gangs and we spotted this magpie land in a eucalypt we both instantly knew that hey this would make a pretty cool shot the bird had picked a really nice perch so we've made a beeline straight for this bird it actually had a really nice pose as we're approaching with its back to the camera looking over but unfortunately as we got closer the birds moved to a slightly different pose i still like the photo but i would have preferred to have the tail on the back facing us so the shot again shows the sharpness of the 500 and the quality you're going to get from this lens we left the magpie and heard the long build corrallers again i really wanted a head shot of the species because they've got this unique long bill and they call it the cut throat the red on the neck so we found a couple of birds just playing around and one had landed on like this metal railing we've approached the bird and luckily it stayed there we've got some head shots colour in the background is actually a driveway of a house not far away now as we were just getting closer a dog's come along scared the birds off they've flown away and they didn't actually come back which was a bit of a bummer so after the corellas we found some more gang gangs and we took lots of photos i'll show you the one photo that i really like from the session this male gangan cockatoo what a beautiful bird i like how it's framed we've got that perch coming out the side we've got the great eye contact we've got the crest overall another fantastic photo i hope you enjoyed these photos half as much as i enjoyed taking them look the lenses perform well there are some issues with these lenses and i will go into more detail in a future video but boy was i happy with the results that i got hopefully you can see what's possible with these lenses you know i did have some really good conditions and some good birds but you can get nice shots with these lenses and i think that's important to know i'd love for you to leave some comments below let me know which was your favorite shot from my session so if you have any suggestions or questions for the review leave them below so it really helps me if you give the video a thumbs up i appreciate that you can support the channel directly by becoming a member and to those that have already joined i thank you very much for that so if you want to see more of this type of content make sure that you subscribe and until the next video take care and bye for now see you later as we drove around we heard the distinctive call of the golden headed sticker is it cysticola is it cystic cysticola cis cysticular cysticular we heard the distinctive call of the golden headed statistics it's a stickler the golden headed cysticular systicular circa we heard the distinctive call of the golden headed testicular cysticola sisticola cysticular we heard the distinctive call of the golden head is testicular now i can't even pronounce this bird so i'm just going to call it the golden headed i think you

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Length: 22min 56sec (1376 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 13 2021