Eastern Spinebill

[Jan Wegener]

one from a few days ago. I took out my new 5.6/400, to see how it does and found a family of spinebills feeding on those lovely purple flowers.
I bought the lens to have a lens/camera with me when I walk around scouting for new locations and for flight shots.
So far I am not overly impressed, but I got a few decent images nonetheless.

This is one of them.

1D Mark IV
400 L
F 6.3
ISO 1600
1/640
580 EX II @ -1
handheld standing on a rock to get a nice BG

[PhilCook]

Nicely composed on the flowering branch Jan, the diagonals work very nicely, bird loks well focused and contrasting well against the smooth backdrop....well done

[Travis Reid]

Great BG, focus and subject.. Nicely done..

[Alison McCoy]

Nice image. I love the perch and the great BG. Very colorful bird well captured.

[Karl Egressy]

Based on this image, the lens is great. Beautiful image, Jan. Love the diagonal flower perch and the pose cannot be better.

[Nick Palmieri]

Lens looks good to me. Great BG. Nice pose, I like the diagonal perch.

[Matthew Studebaker]

outstanding!

[Diane Miller]

Gorgeous and elegant! I love how the colors in the flowers are so close to some of the blues on the bird.

[Frank Schauf]

Fantastic. Wonderful pose, colors and background.

[Mike Veltri]

Sweet capture Jan, I had a love hate relationship with the 400 f/5.6 for some time and eventually sold it.
The problem was the minimum focusing distance made it a terrible lens imo for a walk around lens and the bokeh it produced was not good especially when I have a 500 and 300 F/2.8

As far as a flight lens, its one that's hard to beat especially for small birds in flight. It's fast and light and sharp.
I know many people that have bought, sold and repurchased this lens.

[HadiAnsari]

I love the perch and the great BG. Very colorful bird.I agree about this lens with Mike

[Satish Ranadive]

Very sweet image.Beautiful bird on beautiful perch.
Love the pose,colors,details,BG and composition.

Regards,
Satish.

[Bill Dix]

Beautiful bird, pose, perch, bg.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Excellent image, very appealing perch and colours. BG is quite sweet too. I'd reduce the reflection along the top of the bird's eye...not all of it, but some.