A snowy cornfield. This one one of the remarkable things I saw yesterday. Doesn't look like much at first glance, does it?
This is a case where you actually need one of the high-resolution, larger-sensor 35+ MP cameras.
I know it's kinda too small to see here on the blog, but the fields were actually chock-full of thousands of white geese, to the horizon and beyond.
...And then, the Mennonites coming home from church kept putting themselves in front of my lens—walking, riding bikes, and in buggies. I know they don't like to be photographed, so naturally I usually don't, but I can't help it if they parade in front of where I already have the camera pointed, can I?
That's how I filled up the SD card.
And another reason I got caught short—the X-T2 is 24 MP, vs. 16 MP for the X-T1. The card filled up faster than I'm used to partly because the pictures are bigger! Forgot about that.
Mike
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They say there's yet another nasty storm headed for the East Coast - want me to arrange an airdrop of memory cards?
Posted by: Chuck Albertson | Tuesday, 06 March 2018 at 11:56 AM
Question: "What the heck do I need a Fujifilm GFX 50S for?"
Answer: (See above.)
Question: "What in the world would I ever do with a DJI quad-copter?"
Answer: (See previous answer.)
Posted by: Kenneth Tanaka | Tuesday, 06 March 2018 at 12:08 PM
Hi Mike, the XT2 and all new fuji bodies have lossless compressed mode, files are 22Mb+ vs 45Mb+ of the XT1
Posted by: Iran Ramirez | Tuesday, 06 March 2018 at 12:45 PM
Just to point something out for the sake of accuracy: resolution is the result of pixel pitch, that is, the number of pixels per unit area, *not* the total number of pixels in a sensor. The X-T2's 24 megapixel APC-S sensor has same resolution of a 48 megapixel FF sensor.
Not to point too fine a point on it, but IIRC, back at Photokina in 2014, Fujifilm had a 3' x 5' print of horses up in their booth from the 16 megapixel X-T1.
Posted by: Stephen Scharf | Tuesday, 06 March 2018 at 03:40 PM
Those white geese, appropriately, are Snow Goose.
The blog version is not quite large enough to engage in a birders' "Where's Waldo" hunt for a Blue Morph Snow Goose.
Or the twitcher's hunt for a much less common Ross's Goose (white, very small bill) hidden amongst them.
It's just another form of seeing.
Posted by: Kevin Purcell | Tuesday, 06 March 2018 at 05:55 PM
SD card are a commodity—and therefore inexpensive. The most expensive 128 gigabyte SD card sells at B&H for less than $200.00—I spend more rhan that for groceries in a week.
Frank Capa said: If your photos aren't good enough, your not close enogh. That sure applies here. If you don't know the individual geese by name, it's hard to tell their story.
Posted by: cdembrey | Tuesday, 06 March 2018 at 08:22 PM
Fallen Oak, a lot of metaphor there, great pic too
Posted by: Rusty | Tuesday, 06 March 2018 at 11:03 PM
It is like a Bev Doolittle painting.
Posted by: John Willard | Thursday, 08 March 2018 at 10:53 AM
I wonder if the geese in your photo are the same ones that passed through Pennsylvania two weeks earlier.
https://youtu.be/tT9SWuGxGSg
Same flight path, though I can't find much about the speed of the migration, except that they're due at their breeding grounds around early May. Amazing spectacle!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Flyway
Posted by: robert e | Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 02:32 PM