Sunday, February 8, 2015

Another visit to Rietvlei Nature Reserve–2015-02-07

I arrived at Rietvlei at about 6am, but hardly got to see any animals this day. I saw a few springboks, blesbucks and black Wildebeest in the distance, but nothing up close. I got close to zebras, but they were on the wrong side of the car, exactly in line with the sun behind them. The landscape photographs were as a result of testing out a new 2nd camera.

For some time now I’ve been wanting a second camera. My main camera is the Sony A37 with the Sigma DG 150-500mm 5-6.3 APO HSM lens. This is almost a permanent configuration. I really don’t like to have to change lenses when the big lens is just to big for closer subjects.

Here in South Africa, our First National Bank (FNB) has a loyalty points system called eBucks. The more you use your credit and cheque cards the more points you get. Then, when you have enough points, you can use them to purchase stuff from partner stores nation wide. eBucks also has its own store through which you can buy all kinds of stuff. Then a couple of weeks ago I wanted to check the status of my eBucks. While I was on their website, I decided to browse around their online store and found that they sold cameras and lenses. Because of my good rating with them, I could also get 40% of anything I bought using eBucks alone. I realized that I could buy one of the cameras with the eBucks I had at the time. They only had Canon and Nikon cameras in their store. So, I ordered the Canon EOS 1200D.

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Feeding Bee

Hardware

Camera: Canon EOS 1200D
Lens: Canon EFS 18-55mm

Photo Settings

Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter: 1/800
ISO: 100
Focal Length: 55mm

 

Rietvlei Nature Reserve

Amur Falcon

Hardware

Camera: Sony SLT-A37
Lens: Sigma DG 150-500mm 5-6.3 APO HSM

Photo Settings

Aperture: f/6.3
Shutter: 1/1250
ISO: 200
Focal Length: 500mm

 

Rietvlei Nature Reserve

Landscape

Hardware

Camera: Canon EOS 1200D
Lens: EFS 18-55mm

Photo Settings

Aperture: f/5.0
Shutter: 1/1600
ISO: 100
Focal Length: 46mm

 

Rietvlei Nature Reserve

B&W Landscape

Hardware

Camera: Canon EOS 1200D
Lens: EFS 18-55mm

Photo Settings

Aperture: f/4.0
Shutter: 1/4000
ISO: 100
Focal Length: 27mm

 


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Rietvlei Nature Reserve - 2015-02-07

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