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Black-bellied Whistling Duck Family<\/p><\/div>\n

At a place like Green Cay Wetlands in Palm County FL, when you see a group of photographers gathered in one spot, you are well advised to join them. They are working something. On this day the draw was this family of Black-bellied Whistling Ducks. It was hard to count, since they were actively feeding and never still, but it looked to be 9 or 10 chicks, clearly of a single hatching, since they were identical in size.<\/p>\n

The Zeiss PhotoScope I am testing has a zoom range that provides the same field of view as a 600mm-1800mm zoom on a full frame DSLR. For this shot I was at the wide end of the range.<\/p>\n

Zeiss PhotoScope 85FL at 600mm equivalent. 1\/180th @ ISO 100. Effectively metered at f4.5. (f2.4 physical at the true 93mm focal length).<\/p>\n

Cropped from the bottom in Lightroom to improve composition. Added Clarity and just at tiny amount of Vibrance. Sharpen landscape preset.<\/p>\n

For comparison here is an image of a single chick taken at the 1800mm end of the zoom on the PhotoScope. I attempted a lot of these…but most were blurred by the rapid motion of the chicks.<\/p>\n

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Black-bellied Whistling Duck Chick<\/p><\/div>\n

1\/130th at ISO 100. Effective metered f-stop f6.0 (f3.4 physical at the 293mm true focal length of the PhotoScope).<\/p>\n

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