CANON EOS R6 AF test1 : Capability find the bird | liewwk Nature

After use the powerful R3, which it is almost not missing to find a bird when the bird within the sensor. (we dont use AF point to focus to the bird but let’s the camera to find the bird/bird eye and lock focus than track). Glad that I am able to get R5/R6 for more test on this entry level of full frame camera.

I am trying to sharing different kind of environment to lets the Camera find the bird itself and this may keep update later.

Condition 1 : Bird with contrast again Backgroung

– CANON EOS R6, CANON EF 500mm F4 IS2, CANON 1.4x, CANON EF=EOS-R adapter

– M mode, Auto ISO, F5.6 (biggest aperture), 1/200

– Handheld

– AF method  : the only method using Full sensor area in R5/6

Face+Tracking

– Subject to detect : Animals ; Eye detection : On

 

THE FOCUS almost immediate lock on the bird head/eye and track.

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Condition 2 : closer Bird with lesser contrast again Background

– CANON EOS R6, CANON EF 500mm F4 IS2, CANON 1.4x, CANON EF=EOS-R adapter

– M mode, Auto ISO, F5.6 (biggest aperture), 1/200

– Handheld

– AF method  : the only method using Full sensor area in R5/6

Face+Tracking

– Subject to detect : Animals ; Eye detection : On

THE FOCUS almost immediate lock on the bird head/eye and track.

 

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Condition 3 :further Bird with lesser contrast again Background

– CANON EOS R6, CANON EF 500mm F4 IS2, CANON 1.4x, CANON EF=EOS-R adapter

– M mode, Auto ISO, F5.6 (biggest aperture), 1/200

– Handheld

– AF method  : the only method using Full sensor area in R5/6

Face+Tracking

– Subject to detect : Animals ; Eye detection : On

 

THE FOCUS require a bit time to look for a bird but very quick to get the bird focus locked and track on the head and eye

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Condition 4 : small bird low contrast over the similar and messy Background

– CANON EOS R6, CANON EF 500mm F4 IS2, CANON 1.4x, CANON EF=EOS-R adapter

– M mode, Auto ISO, F5.6 (biggest aperture), 1/200

– Handheld

– AF method  : the only method using Full sensor area in R5/6

Face+Tracking

– Subject to detect : Animals ; Eye detection : On

THE FOCUS almost not possible to find the bird (trying to moving the camera at various position of the sensor). What we need to do just move the focus ring so the focus area near the bird than very soon it will be get the Bird/Bird eye focus and track.

R3 can easily use eye-Control AF to resolve this or I found R3 capable to find the even at this kind of environment.

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Condition 4 : very small bird with contrast

– CANON EOS R5, CANON EF 500mm F4 IS2, CANON 1.4x, CANON EF=EOS-R adapter

– M mode, Auto ISO, F5.6 (biggest aperture), 1/200

– Handheld

– AF method  : the only method using Full sensor area in R5/6

Face+Tracking

– Subject to detect : Animals ; Eye detection : On

THE FOCUS almost not possible to find the bird (trying to moving the camera at various position of the sensor). What we need to do just move the focus ring so the focus area near the bird than very soon it will be get the Bird/Bird eye focus and track.

* the small bird on center

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CANON EOS R3 AF test4 : Heron flying across different Background | liewwk Nature

 

it is another series of picture captured while I am testing the CANON EOS R3

this bird sudden flying from sea toward mangrove, with the canon R3.. it is effortless just lock focus and track the bird even flying backlit BG and different BG

 

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– video clip create from a series of pictures captured with CANON R3

– while I am shooting Tern flying at Selangor coastal area. this Heron sudden flying from beach toward mangrove area.

– 视屏,是一组照片摄于佳能R3.

– 在海边拍水鸟时,这鸟忽然从海飞到红树林。我立刻用佳能R3,随便瞄向这鸟。相机完全自动对焦鸟+追焦鸟头/眼。

202111, Pantai Remis, Selangor, Malaysia

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CANON EOS R3 AF test3 : Fast moving Swift | liewwk Nature

Spend another morning for test one of the most difficult photograph objects, swift and swallow.

*** I will updating all the swift AF test here.

There are some setting that I change for this fast moving object which I think it may affect the performance

CANON R3, CANON EF 500mm F4 IS2, EF 1.4x TC III

AF area (whole sensor)

AFC, eye-control AF off

Drive mode: H (15fps) and H+ (30fps)

AI Servo (AF-C)

cRAW and use DPP straight convert to JPEG and resize.

No CROP

Len set to >10m which anything near than 10m will not be focus

no feeding, no fix location/direction for the bird. Everything here just a bird flying and I just point my Len direction and lets the camera lock the focus (on bird) and track by following the flying direction

few test, trying to show

i. near object

ii. far object

iii. flying at same Background (Green, sky)

iv. flying cross various background

– can see below, the birds will flying crossing sky, water surface, green etc

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test2: far away with small objects fast moving actions

-CANON R3, CANON RF600mm F4

– all AF setting tracking sensitivity, Accel./deccel. tracking are set to Auto

– M mode, ISO Auto, Shutter Speed 1/2000, F5.6

– full screen focus area

– Hmode

– Subject tracking – ON

– Subject to detect – animal

– eye detection – OFF

– cRAW, direct save from DPP (beta). without any process

– Handheld

– everything happen within ~1s

– each picture  ~100% crop picture show..

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test1: Dull background to Bright Green background

– all AF setting tracking sensitivity, Accel./deccel. tracking are set to Auto

– M mode, ISO Auto, Shutter Speed 1/1600, F5.6

– full screen focus area

– Hmode

– Subject tracking – ON

– Subject to detect – animal

– eye detection – ON (may be need to be off for far object, while the DOF should cover the bird and most probably can get faster focus capability)

– cRAW, direct save from DPP (beta). without any process

– Tripod and video head

– everything happen within 2s

– each picture with 100% crop picture show..

 

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CANON EOS R3 AF test2 | liewwk Nature

I am glad to given a chance to have a unit CANON EOS R3 to have a series of test on Birds/Nature Photography.

As for other camera, I plan to have series of tests which related to Tropical forest birds Photographer concerns eg. ISO performance, AF performance, Raw files dynamics range etc.

After days of basic understanding the camera (actually it is like a upgraded version of my old CANON EOS 1dxm2). I will try share other view of the camera later in other posts, here lets share one of the major concern : AF performance.

For this test, I am using

CANON EOS R3

CANON EF 500mm F4 IS2

CANON 1.4x TC III

No feeding, No nesting and no idea what bird flying to/from which directions. Just base on what you see and trying the Camera capability to focus and capture.

Setting

AF area (whole sensor)

AFC, eye-control AF off

Drive mode: H (15fps)

AI Servo (AF-C)

RAW and use DPP straight convert to JPEG and resize.

No CROP

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CANON EOS R3 AF test1 | liewwk Nature

I am glad to given a chance to have a unit CANON EOS R3 to have a series of test on Birds/Nature Photography.

As for other camera, I plan to have series of tests which related to Tropical forest birds Photographer concerns eg. ISO performance, AF performance, Raw files dynamics range etc.

After days of basic understanding the camera (actually it is like a upgraded version of my old CANON EOS 1dxm2). I will try share other view of the camera later in other posts, here lets share one of the major concern : AF performance.

For this test, I am using

CANON EOS R3

CANON EF 500mm F4 IS2

CANON 1.4x TC III

Handheld inside car

No feeding, No nesting and no idea what bird flying to/from which directions. Just base on what you see and trying the Camera capability to focus and capture.

Setting

AF area (whole sensor)

AFC, eye-control AF off

Drive mode: H (15fps)

AI Servo (AF-C)

RAW and use DPP straight convert to JPEG and resize.

No CROP

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All of sudden a White-throated Kingfisher flying infront of us, with immediate response I just point the Len toward the bird and lets the camera lock focus on the bird and track … capture the images in ~3-4s

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Phylloscopidae series: Warbler | 柳莺科 | liewwk Nature – 4 [20231023]

most of the species are winter visitors to Malaysia. Small and active birds, look-alike, and sometimes difficult to ID without pictures taken and call recording.

1. Mountain Leaf Warbler, 山柳莺, 山柳鶯, Phylloscopus trivirgatus, ミナミムシクイ, CEKUP-DAUN KUNYIT GUNUNG

* North Borneo, Kinabaluensis

2. Yellow-browed Warbler, 黄眉柳莺, 黃眉柳鶯, Phylloscopus inornatus, キマユムシクイ, CEKUP-DAUN KECIL BIASA

3. Arctic Warbler, 极北柳莺. 極北柳鶯, Phylloscopus borealis, コムシクイ, CEKUP-DAUN ARTIK

4. Yellow-breasted Warbler, 黄胸鹟莺, 黃胸鶲鶯, Phylloscopus montis, チャガシラモリムシクイ, CEKUP-KACAMATA MELAYU

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1. Mountain Leaf Warbler, 山柳莺, 山柳鶯, Phylloscopus trivirgatus, ミナミムシクイ, CEKUP-DAUN KUNYIT GUNUNG

* North Borneo, Kinabaluensis

update 202105

– small and active found >800 asl

– black crown, no wing-bar

– this overall dull gray-greenish, no yellowish

– in North Borneo (KNP, Crocker Range etc) both Yellowish and this Gray-light greenish exist

– 小而活跃。通常在海拔800米以上

– 黑头。翅膀没纹。在北婆罗洲(沙巴)有黄 或 这灰-浅绿 两种。

201603, KNP, Sabah, Malaysia

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2. Yellow-browed Warbler, 黄眉柳莺, 黃眉柳鶯, Phylloscopus inornatus, キマユムシクイ, CEKUP-DAUN KECIL BIASA

– Small, active warbler with greenish upperparts, white underparts, distinct pale yellowish eyebrow, and distinct pale wingbars (upper wingbar short and less distinct) *Ebird

– 是小型食虫鸟类,嘴细尖。头部色泽较深,在头顶的中央贯以一条若隐若现的黄绿色纵纹。背羽以橄榄绿色或褐色为主,上体包括两翅的内侧覆羽概呈橄榄绿色,翅具两道浅黄绿色翼斑。下体白色,胸、胁、尾下覆羽均稍沾绿黄色,腋羽亦然。尾羽黑褐色,雌雄两性羽色相似。虹膜暗褐色;嘴角黑色,下嘴基部淡黄;跗蹠淡棕褐色。

201301, Genting Highland, Pahang, Malaysia

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3. Arctic Warbler, 极北柳莺. 極北柳鶯, Phylloscopus borealis, コムシクイ, CEKUP-DAUN ARTIK

– Dull, relatively unmarked olive-brown warbler with a prominent yellowish-white eyestripe, faint wingbars, and pale whitish underparts. Visually inseparable from Japanese and Kamchatka Leaf Warblers; listen for song, an electric chattery trill. Also gives a metallic two-noted call and a short harsh buzz. Breeds in shrubby areas, often near water, throughout the Eurasian taiga. Breeding range extends to Alaska, where it is the only leaf warbler. Winters in lowland and foothill forest, forest edge, and gardens, primarily in Southeast Asia. (Ebird)

体长11-13厘米,体小偏灰橄榄色,具明显的黄白色长眉纹,眼先及过眼纹近黑。上体概呈灰橄榄绿色;具甚浅的白色翼斑,大覆羽先端黄白色,形成一道翅上翼斑;中覆羽羽尖成第二道模糊的翼斑;下体白色沾黄,两胁褐橄榄色;尾下覆羽更浓著。第6枚初级飞羽外翈不具切刻。虹膜暗褐色;嘴黑褐色,下嘴黄褐色;跗蹠和趾肉色。

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202104, Sg Congkak, Selangor, Malaysia
202104, Sg Congkak, Selangor, Malaysia

 

4. Yellow-breasted Warbler, 黄胸鹟莺, 黃胸鶲鶯, Phylloscopus montis, チャガシラモリムシクイ, CEKUP-KACAMATA MELAYU

– a very active montane bird, but it is always attract our’s attention with the bright yellow color

– 非常活跃高山小鸟。非常吸引我们的眼光。

update 202310

– a tiny, active and beautiful bird commonly found at KNP, Gunung Alab at Borneo

– 小,活跃,美丽的小鸟。在神山都蛮容易看到的鸟。

202309, KNP, Sabah, Malaysia

 

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Pandionidae series: Osprey | 鹗科 | liewwk Nature – 1

The large, mostly white raptor that cruises over lakes, rivers, and coastal waterways in search of fish. Impressively widespread: found on every continent except Antarctica. Mostly white head and underparts; dark brown back. In-flight holds wings with a kink in the wrist (shaped like an “M”).

1. Osprey, 鹗, 魚鷹, Pandion haliaetus, ミサゴ, HELANG-TIRAM

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1. Osprey, 鹗, 魚鷹, Pandion haliaetus, ミサゴ, HELANG-TIRAM

– perch near the pond, river, beach-ready to catch fish for food

The osprey or more specifically the western osprey (Pandion haliaetus) — also called sea hawkriver hawk, and fish hawk — is a diurnalfish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor, reaching more than 60 cm (24 in) in length and 180 cm (71 in) across the wings. It is brown on the upperparts and predominantly greyish on the head and underparts.

***https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osprey

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201312, Kuala Gula, Perak, Malaysia

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Recurvirostridae series: Stilt | 反嘴鹬科 | liewwk Nature – 3 [update 20230110]

refer waders, normally long-legged, very fine-bill and all 3 we have here are black-white

1. Pied Stilt, 澳洲长脚鹬, 澳洲長腳鷸, Himantopus leucocephalus, オーストラリアセイタカシギ, KEDIDI KAKI-PANJANG AUSTRALASIA

2. Black-winged Stilt, 黑翅长脚鹬, 黑翅長腳鷸, Himantopus himantopus, セイタカシギ, KEDIDI KAKI-PANJANG BIASA

3. Pied Avocet, 反嘴鹬, 反嘴鹬, Recurvirostra avosetta, ソリハシセイタカシギ, KEDIDI PARUH-CEKUNG UBUN HITAM

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1. Pied Stilt, 澳洲长脚鹬, 澳洲長腳鷸, Himantopus leucocephalus, オーストラリアセイタカシギ, KEDIDI KAKI-PANJANG AUSTRALASIA

– rare migrant for Peninsular Malaysia. very similar to Black-winged

– more common at Borneo

update 202105

– a rare migrant or first record happen at Johor, Malaysia (202008)

– 马来西亚西马稀有候鸟(南)

202008, Sg Balang, Johor, Malaysia

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2. Black-winged Stilt, 黑翅长脚鹬, 黑翅長腳鷸, Himantopus himantopus, セイタカシギ, KEDIDI KAKI-PANJANG BIASA

– common winter visitor, normally big group

– overall black-white making very noisy sound

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3. Pied Avocet, 反嘴鹬, 反嘴鹬, Recurvirostra avosetta, ソリハシセイタカシギ, KEDIDI PARUH-CEKUNG UBUN HITAM

– beautiful bird with up-curve billed

Striking and essentially unmistakable, with elegant shape, boldly pied plumage, long bluish-gray legs, and long, slender, upcurved bill. Curve is stronger on female. Usually breeds in small colonies; nesting birds call noisily. Nonbreeding flocks locally number in hundreds. Feeds while wading or swimming, sweeping its bill side to side. Most common in coastal wetlands and brackish lagoons and estuaries, but will also appear inland, particularly on or near large lakes. (Ebird)

反嘴鹬(学名:Recurvirostra avosetta)是反嘴鹬科反嘴鹬属鸟类。中型涉禽,体长40-45厘米。嘴黑色,细长而向上翘。脚亦较长,青灰色。头顶从前额至后颈黑色,翼尖和翼上及肩部两条带斑黑色,其余体羽白色。飞翔时黑色头顶、黑色翅尖,以及背间部和翅上的黑带与白色的体羽和远远伸出于尾后的暗色脚形成鲜明对比,甚为醒目,野外不难识别。 [1]
反嘴鹬栖息于平原和半荒漠地区的湖泊、水塘和沼泽地带,有时也栖息于海边水塘和盐碱沼泽地。迁徙期间亦常出现于水稻田和鱼塘。冬季多栖息于海岸及河口地带。主要以小型甲壳类、水生昆虫、昆虫幼虫、蠕虫和软体动物等小型无脊椎动物为食。 [1]
分布于欧洲、中东、中亚、塔吉克斯坦、阿富汗、西西伯利亚南部和外贝加尔湖地区,越冬于里海南部、非洲、印度和缅甸等南亚和东南亚地区。在中国分布于新疆、青海、内蒙古、辽宁、黑龙江、吉林等省,越冬于西藏南部、广东、福建和香港等南部沿海省区,迁徙期间经过河北、山东、山西、陕西、江苏、湖南和四川等省,偶尔也见于中国台湾省。
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Ploceidae series | 织布鸟科 | liewwk Nature – 1 [update 20240107]

Normally refer weavers, weaverbirds, weaver finches and bishops. These names come from the nests of intricately woven vegetation created by birds in this family.

大小似麻雀,嘴强健;第1枚飞羽较长,超过大覆羽;雄鸟一年有两种羽色,非繁殖季节雄鸟羽色似雌鸟。雄性成鸟黑色的羽毛上点缀着鲜艳的红色、橙色或者黄色。有几种雄性织布鸟在繁殖季节过后会退去色彩鲜艳的羽毛,变得像雌鸟一样很不显眼。典型的织布鸟雄性羽毛呈黑色和黄色。雌性不那么显眼,呈淡黄色或褐色,有些像麻雀。

1. Baya Weaver, 黄胸织雀, 黃胸織布鳥, Ploceus philippinus, キムネコウヨウジャク, Burung Tempua

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1. Baya Weaver, 黄胸织雀, 黃胸織布鳥, Ploceus philippinus, キムネコウヨウジャク, Burung Tempua

non native male with bright yellow head

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– the male having bright yellow head, female dull overall dull brown. Normally moving in group with munia

– 公鸟,头部黄。母鸟全浅棕色。通常是群体活动。

20240106, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

 

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– pretty common at open grassland and paddy field. male with bright yellow crown.
– another hot day at Paddy field and all of sudden, saw this bird carrying a long leaf flying toward us.

– 这鸟向着我们飞来。还咬着长草。

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202104, Kuala Selangor, Selangor

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Apodidae series | 雨燕科 | liewwk Nature

always flying (aerial birds) around and normally we refer to as swift.

雨燕是飞翔速度最快的鸟类,常在空中捕食昆虫,翼长而腿脚弱小.

1. Brown-backed Needletail, 褐背针尾雨燕褐喉針尾雨燕, Hirundapus giganteus, オオハリオアマツバメLAYANG-LAYANG BESAR BIASA

2. Edible-nest Swiftlet, Aerodramus fuciphagus/germani, 爪哇金丝燕爪哇金絲燕ジャワアナツバメLAYANG-LAYANG GUA SARANG PUTIH

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1. Brown-backed Needletail, 褐背针尾雨燕褐喉針尾雨燕, Hirundapus giganteus, オオハリオアマツバメLAYANG-LAYANG BESAR BIASA

– a fast-moving back “brown”, forehead normally consist of white spot sub-species indicus . Or without white giganteus

飞非常快的较大型的雨燕。头部带白(indicus)。

202103, Selangor, Malaysia
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2. Edible-nest Swiftlet, Aerodramus fuciphagus/germani, 爪哇金丝燕爪哇金絲燕ジャワアナツバメLAYANG-LAYANG GUA SARANG PUTIH

– a slightly complicated species to be ID among Edible-nest (which also either white-nest or Germain), Black-nest & Mossy-nest which best to id by their nest build

– for Penisular Malaysia, many believe the mix of White-nest Swiftlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus) and Germain’s Swiftlet (Aerodramus germani) or some study claims North – germani and South – fuciphagus

https://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/15927/1/The%20species%20of%20white-nest%20swiftlets%20(abstrak).pdf

– 几乎不能辨别马来西亚几种的金丝燕。爪哇金丝燕, 大金丝燕, 苔巢金丝燕, 通常都要已他们的巢分别。

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– shoot near the coastal west coast of Center Penisular Malaysia. just 50m away from the bird-nest farm house

– 摄于马来西亚西马海边燕屋附近。

Pantai Kelanang, Selangor, Malaysia
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8k video from CANON EOS R5 | liewwk Nature

One of the reasons to own 8k video most probably is to crop the video like this one to get more clarity (but I didn’t reduce it to 4k just want to show 8k video and zoom in)

let’s have a look at 4k and tell me how’s this video looks like? very good? good? normal?

update 202101

Dusky eagle-owl, 乌雕鸮, 烏雕鴞, Bubo coromandus, ウスグロワシミミズク, BURUNG-HANTU BERTANDUK KELABU ASIA

– one of the 8k 25p video by CANON EOS R5

– trying to zoom in ~100% crop (picture mode), no sharpening

– my 2016 Mac Book Pro 13″ not able to play the video file. I just put into Premiere Pro and export it to MP4 with Zoom in effect

佳能 EOS R5 的 8k 視頻。 我的蘋果 MBP 13″ 2016沒辦法做太多的後期。就切到~100% (照片)

 

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More videos from liewwk Nature

https://www.youtube.com/user/liewwk/videos

 

Another testing on CANON EOS R5

CANON EOS R5 – Auto Focus : Animal Eye tracking

 

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Birds Watch/Photograph tour feel free to contact me

观鸟或拍鸟团  您可联络我

or REFER

HERE

 

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