Lure coursing at high ISO's

[llpoolej]

We decided to stay for all three days of coursing. I had originally only registered for Friday and Saturday. Friday was BITTER cold, with a wind that went to the bone. Saturday was nicer and rather pleasant. Sunday, was a drizzling rain, though, honestly, more tolerable than Friday!

I shot these at 1600 ISO, f3.5 and still could only get to 1/640th of a second! That is mid day too. I don't think we always realize how low light can be mid day

The E-3 handles noise at 1600 ISO better than my E-1 did at 400. I could print these straight out of the camera, with no fiddling

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Riley was fighting so hard to be released, he knocked Cathy off the ground!

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These are on Saturday and at 200 ISO. I just had to share them!


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Dot finished her field championship in TWO weekends at 12m old. I am so proud of her!!

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[BL3]

Good shots at 1600 ISO indeed! Were you using any in-camera noise filter? I was just fiddling with the High setting (along with resetting Sharpening to +1) and the results weren't too bad, although I know it's heresy to say so. I'm also concluding that I can live without the SWD lenses for now, as I can keep up with my dogs using CAF and the regular (50-200 etc.) lenses. Thanks for the great shots.

Rocky

[llpoolej]

I was using the standard setting for noise filtering and 0 sharpening. I never add sharpening in camera as it tends to add noise.

I did set the contrast to 0, which I usually have it at -1. In the rain, I needed a bit more contrast

[llamaluvr]

Julie judging from your shots I'm really going to enjoy the E-3 when it arrives. I try to shoot action on many overcast days and I sure won't complain with ISO 1600 shots like these.

[windsprite]

Those look totally amazing, as always. I love the one of Dot flying through the air. Congratulations on her championship!!!

I've been sick and haven't had a chance to get outside and try out my E-3. I felt sorry for my dogs, who have been pent up with me all week, so I took them to the dog park for about 20 minutes near sundown (which is at 4:00 here!). I shot with the 50-200. As I was shooting, I was thinking, "Man, this AF is killer!" Then when I got on the computer I had maybe 6 barely usable shots and over 250 totally awful ones (I was trying to see if the AF could get sequences in low light, so I was machine-gunning it). I had to go from ISO 1250 to 3200 in the space of 15 minutes, so it was probably too dark, but I have the feeling I have had much better luck with the 510 and 40-150 in similar light!

Anyway, your results give me hope. I'll just have to go try again when I'm feeling better.

[BL3]

Julie (K): I had a similar experience on my first try at CAF with the E-3 using the highly technical "running dogs" test criteria. There is definitely a learning curve to this new camera. I ultimately went with using the "cross" auto focus mode and a higher ISO than I wanted (800), but the keeper rate improved, at least with regard to focus. Of course the dogs didn't cooperate, they insisted on having goofy expressions while being photo'ed--you know tongues lolling, slobbering, etc., so I don't have any shots worth posting, like Julie Poole.

Rocky

[llpoolej]

What I have done is use the center AF only. It helped a lot when it comes to fast dogs. I have to play around with it some more

[windsprite]

Hmm. I used center point only for most of mine, then switched to all points toward the end, but neither setting worked. My 50-200 hunted a lot even indoors, more than I would expect it to on the E-3. Maybe I'll have to think about getting it serviced.

[Changeling]

Julie, I saw your review over at NWP it was great, really some seriously sharp captures also, you must be thrilled. I was wondering about the breed near the bottom in two shots that is wire haired as I have never seen one before.

Charles

[llpoolej]

I believe those were scottish deerhounds. Unless I am right to them, I have a tendency to mix up the deerhounds and th wolfhounds. Wolfhounds are much larger. Both breeds do lure course though.

I do think the ones in Columbia were deerhounds(pictured in the article) and the ones in GA were Wolfhounds.