I actually also use my 150-600 fuji (0.24x) for insects as well. While a 80mm macro lens gets me closer, it's harder to follow bugs around because i have to move the camera around a lot more while being on my knees or sitting, but at 600mm i can just stand 2m away in place and follow the insect, while not bothering or agitating them, i like this idea
Topp stuff buddy, I hope alls well with you. To be fair I use my 100-500 canon RF lens for my insect photos and i rarely use the 100 RF macro lens because of those reasons you explain. Brill video, great footage 😉👍🏼..... JP
Wow you always get such great shots! Love your videos. I’ve got a question for you about lens IS. Do you film with it turned on? I’ve noticed that with the Panasonic lenses with IS on a gh6 if the camera is steady the lens IS stops working unless it senses motion (which causes the frame to all of the sudden shift) . I’m curious if an Olympus lens on the gh6 does the same thing or if the IS is always on. Appreciate your thoughts and keep these awesome videos coming!
Yes i noticed that with the panasonic 100-400mm. Its annoying when you compose a shot and then it shifts. It must be something to do with the way the in body IS is working with the Panasonic lens IS as Ive had no problems when using a non IS Olympus lens or Olympus lens with IS.
Did I miss something? The mating balls looked like Ivy bees. We get huge aggregates of them on the coast here in Dorset. Ivy bees are late season bees. As the name suggests, they feed off Ivy flowers. I would expect to see them when most other bees have died off. What were the mating bees in the footage?
Ivy bees are not out until August/September as you say, but these are a similar looking species (there are a few!) Andrea flavipes. I found out the exact species after I uploaded the video, but they seem to have similar behaviour :)
@@ukwildlifeCoincidentally, I just found an aggregate of the same species at Silver Lake, Dorset today on a sandy bank. Thank you for the ID. I think they are a cellophane bee like the Ivy bee. I managed to get a good shot of a mating ball, lots of the little males and bigger females. Also, a good focus stacked shot of the parasitic fly. I will wait until my better half comes home to see if she can ID the nomads. The aggregate was in the hundreds. The Ivy bees at Dulston I would estimate to be in the high tens of thousands.
@@youphototube 10000s! That sounds amazing And IDing Nomada bees!? She has my full respect! Im slowly learning a few of the easier bees here and there (Falk and Lewington is good but lots of species!), but theres a reason Im a Dragonfly recorder and not Hymenoptera, there are a lot less dragon and damselflies and so much easier to ID! lol
@ukwildlife I am currently looking at Falk and Lewington. She just pointed out ivy bees, Colletes are smooth and Andrena are hairy. So I got that wrong. If she can't ID the nomads, I'll try the bees, wasps and ants group. My skill is photography. Got some decent shots.
Excellent video! I have been trying to get footage and pics of bee flies too - have only seen one in my garden so far this year. I am using 70-300mm lens for that - the only lens I currently have!
Hi, outstanding approach and superb results! Could you please post / add a link which adaptation you are using between the tripod head and the lens tripod collar? Thanks a lot in advance! KR Ralf
If you find my wildlife filmmaking set up video it's pretty much the same as i had supporting that lens/camera set up. I've just up graded the clamp on the lens foot to the large Neewer one. I'll try track down the exact name! And I'll do an updated filmmaking set up video soon too!
@@Nature-was-my-first-love Just found it the z mount thing I used for the spiders on the mini tripod is: Z-Flex Tilt Tripod Head-INNOREL MH5 Ill give some m ore feedback on pros and cons of it when i do a proper video
Un video muy interesante!!! tengo tu mismo equipo y me gustaria probar nuevas fotografias con el difusor, pero no encuentro plantilla para descargar... ¿serías tan amable de facilitarla?
