Sandhill cranes are relatively easy to photograph in flight because they are slow fliers. Even with a long lens, when they take off or land it's not difficult to keep them in the frame and fire off many frames per second. I captured this one with a 500mm focal length (on the Canon 100-500mm zoom) plus a 1.4x teleconverter giving me 700mm of focal length. My settings were 1/3200, f/10, and 4000 ISO. You can see the noise is negligible even with this high setting. My first digital camera, the Canon 1Ds Mark II that I purchased in 2005, cost 2 1/2 times what the R5 costs. However, it was useless at 3200 ISO because the noise was so bad. I dared not go above 1000 ISO with that camera just to maintain quality. Now, I shoot with 4000 ISO without giving it a second thought.
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