Had a little spring fun with my 300 and 1.4x TC this morning.
840mm equivalent. Powerful weapon, but surprisingly easy to use.
An uncropped file taken hand held, and sitting in the open, of a breed of bird that does not tend to sit around.
This is a crop from the file after a quick in-out with No Noise. NN was not strictly necessary with an ISO 800 file, but the shadow area was a little under (a tiny bit noisy), so the very slightly cleaner file is pretty impressive, although I slightly over sharpened it (an ON1 thing with me).
Even with the limiter set there was a clear drop off in focus speed (EM1 mk2 with latest firmware, lens not), but not accuracy.
Not even close to minimum focus distance (1.4m), this shot shows the power of a lens this long at about 3m.
Talk about lazy ass photography. Taken from the same spot in a different direction at about 4-5m, again not cropped. This one was No Noise’d also as it was little under exposed.
Same again same tree a little lower than the bee. Bokeh is a little twitchy, common with high res Olympus tele’s, but still plenty sharp, in a pleasant way.
All the images above were processed with C1 and in some cases ON1 No Noise, just to see and in each case I compared the image to an ON1 RAW 2021 version that did not compare well (both less sharp and noisier, but possibly still better than LR). I am going to wait and see how the 2022 version goes, considering the obvious benefit of ON1 No Noise, but so far C1 is still the one to beat because the base image is just better.