House Sparrow in the Rain
Female Blackbird
So I was going to go out and takes some landscape images. It was going to be a nice change of pace, something different, something fresh. Well it didn't happen. instead I decided to test the 1D with the 2 x converter to see what sort of images it may produce. Well I was blown away. Period. I used to think that the 40D worked well with the 2x converter. Not anymore, the 1D is simply a brilliant camera.
All these photographs were captured in my garden around about lunch time this morning. As you can see it was raining and the light was patchy. I had to shoot at 640 ISO, something I don't like doing with the 40D as the results can get very soft but with the 1D there was not a trace of softness. The images were sharp and well saturated and are able to deal with cropping very well. In short they are outstanding.
This does make the question of the 40D a whole more complicated. With the 40D you do get an extra amount of magnification (I know this is not strictly true but it will suffice for this post) which might be useful at places such as Bempton. However, the final image is nothing like the quality of the 1D, not surprising since one is about 3 times the price as the other and the fast FPS can be really useful when taking nature shots. In short do I go the whole hog and get another 1D? I think I know the answer and I suspect reading you may too.
Starlings
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