To get maximum dollars, I should have sold the Canon 1D Mark II #9 (vintage 2004) in 2012 when I got the Canon 5D Mark III #8 , but I never did. So there it sat in a box until I revived it in 2021 to take some motion trigger shutter actuations off of the 5D. If I sold it now I might get a few hundred, but what I have is an 8 Mp camera which equals the top TRUE resolution in any trail camera I know of. As I have said many times before, every trail camera manufacturer except Reconyx lies about image resolution.
I put the 1D out today with the 70-200 zoom, which also is more than 20 years old. This camera-lens combo traveled with me to Antarctica and the Galapagos way back when, and they still produce a decent image. I don't have a battery that can power it for more than a few minutes, so I use an AC adapter and a long extension cord. It soaked up more than 400 shutter actuations today, getting mostly magpies but also some blurry shots of a flicker. It is profocused to the middle of bird bath, and the flicker was sitting on the front. But these magpies were in focus.
To process in Photoshop, my new standard practice is to use Smart Sharpen on the foreground and Reduce Noise (rather than blur) on the background. I don't know if anyone downloads these images and zooms in to see the pixels, but I think using Reduce Noise rather than blur serves much of the same purpose and is more subtle.
I need to find a setting other than the little bird bath, but it is just so convenient since it gets a lot of traffic. The nest boxes are unoccupied, but birds still frequently perch on top of them. Maybe tomorrow.
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