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Cedar Creek Gorge Park hike

While hiking around a local park, I brought along the Fuji X-T5 and a variety of lenses.  The most used was the Fuji 150-600mm since I stumbled across some hawk’s looking for dinner.  Above is a Red Tailed Hawk and it was moving from tree to tree scoping the area out.  Light was low and at full zoom, my lens max aperture was f/8.  So I tried to drop the shutter speed to 1/60 of a second while the hawk was stationary.  At a full 600mm zoom, 1/60 of a second actually worked well enough.  The IBIS and OIS of the lens worked together beautifully to let me get the shot I wanted too without cranking the ISO.

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Ultrawide Shooting with a Canon 10-18mm EF-S Lens

Fuji X-T5 with Canon 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6

Today I was fortunate enough to both have an un-seasonally warm day and have a new lens delivered.  A short hike was in order to put it through its paces.  The lens is a Canon 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6 IS STM in EF-S mount.  This can mount to my Fujifilm bodies by way of a Fringer EF-FX adapter that provides autofocus, EXIF data and aperture control.  It works without any issues just as a native lens would.

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