>>4403497They were truly a different breed not going to lie, I know a lot of them relied on prefocusing branches/perches and basically relying on the bird to land there and do a quick adjust.
But insane to think of the OG natgeo photographers were pulling off, especially with birds in flight. Honestly I'd love to watch a documentary about wildlife photographers that shot film back then and talk about the process, challenges, and tips/tricks they used to work around their limitations.
Not only would that be cool to learn about, bet there's a ton of lessons to take from that and can apply to digital in a lot of ways.
How do film iso levels compare to a FF sensor since they're relatively equal? i.e. like some of my shots I posted even at f8 are sub 600 with good light at 1/800-1250 , I feel like porta 800 could work in some high light environments, granted you'll need to bump the SS due to lack of IBIS and IS and all that if they're relatively equal.
Might be limited to sharp angle sun light or having snow bouncing light to help, but may be doable.
>Minolta Alpha 9 (shutter speeds up to 1/12000 and 5.5fps auto drive)That's pretty wild to me, film wise I only used like cheap disposables and a lowerend leica(high chance it was a knockoff kek) my grandfather had but I was like 6-10 at the time so never got serious or actually learned film photography properly so I don't know shit about film lmao.
