Nice Photos.

Thanks for that. the only other pic I have is of his bum disappearing into the same bush yonks ago. So it is an improvement.

We have a wildlife area near us, there is a hide overlooking a couple of posts at the edge of a pond, Kingfishers sit on them for quite long periods.

I have never been there with a camera but there was a guy in the hide last time with some excellent pics 300mm with X1.4  thingy.

I hadn't seen much more than a blue blur before, this time I even saw a couple hovering.

Don Atkinson posted:

I tend to point, zoom, shoot

Well as long is its easy to change a few settings to get the shot, that's all that matters.

Which was the good Leica ? Hopefully it didn't in this neck of the woods...

Haim Ronen posted:

Recession

Really like that one Haim. Very different perspective.

BigH47 posted:

We have a wildlife area near us, there is a hide overlooking a couple of posts at the edge of a pond, Kingfishers sit on them for quite long periods.

I have never been there with a camera but there was a guy in the hide last time with some excellent pics 300mm with X1.4  thingy.

I hadn't seen much more than a blue blur before, this time I even saw a couple hovering.

This was at 420mm equiv - Actually 50-140 on a 1.5 crop sensor Fuji with a 2x TC I'm trying out.

The bird was about 50m away and this is a relatively hefty crop from the pic. 

May also have been better if I'd updated the lens firmware to accomodate the TC before trying it out..!

So pushing it a bit.

JamieWednesday posted:

BigH47 posted:

We have a wildlife area near us, there is a hide overlooking a couple of posts at the edge of a pond, Kingfishers sit on them for quite long periods.

I have never been there with a camera but there was a guy in the hide last time with some excellent pics 300mm with X1.4  thingy.

I hadn't seen much more than a blue blur before, this time I even saw a couple hovering.

This was at 420mm equiv - Actually 50-140 on a 1.5 crop sensor Fuji with a 2x TC I'm trying out.

The bird was about 50m away and this is a relatively hefty crop from the pic. 

May also have been better if I'd updated the lens firmware to accomodate the TC before trying it out..!

So pushing it a bit.

The closest I have got was with a 200mm lens when I had one lined up only for a dog to come rushing down the path and frighten it away.  I would have been a rubbish photo because I was too far away with too small a lens but I'd have still taken it.

Guy007 posted:

Don Atkinson posted:

I tend to point, zoom, shoot

Well as long is its easy to change a few settings to get the shot, that's all that matters.

Which was the good Leica ? Hopefully it didn't in this neck of the woods...

Last October, when I was in Vernon, my original Leica D-lux4 was stolen. I replaced it with a second-hand Leica D-Lux4 when i came back to the UK. Then earlier this year I acquired the D7200 and the 16-80mm lens.

When I look at my pre-Oct 2015 pictures in Flickr I can see that my original D-Lux4 had later firmware and software versions than the replacement one. Whether this makes any difference or whether it's just my imagination I don't know, but I just get a feeling that my initial D-Lux was better than the current one.

Need Italian wines not available in France = drive to Italy.
Drive to Italy = lunch in Italy.
Lunch in Italy = not too difficult to endure.

Tough life.

Not much acqua in Dolceacqua.

Bridge that Monet painted (a picture of).

Jealous? Moi?

Ancient misty morning.

Don Atkinson posted:

 

Last October, when I was in Vernon, my original Leica D-lux4 was stolen. I replaced it with a second-hand Leica D-Lux4 when i came back to the UK. Then earlier this year I acquired the D7200 and the 16-80mm lens.

When I look at my pre-Oct 2015 pictures in Flickr I can see that my original D-Lux4 had later firmware and software versions than the replacement one. Whether this makes any difference or whether it's just my imagination I don't know, but I just get a feeling that my initial D-Lux was better than the current one.

Well that wasn't good on the original camera.

Unfortunately as these are just mini computers, software fixes / updates on the whole do help. 

Updating the firmware is pretty easy ( the Nikon will need it too ) just a case of getting the latest from the Leica site ( download the instructions too ) copying it to an empty SD card and let the camera do the rest, normally sorted in 5 mins - just make sure you have a full battery/plugged in though. 

Introducing Stanley, responsible for some serious music listening this week as I have been off work helping him to settle in.  Phone camera only

Beijing bikes.

Maybe Katie Melua was right, but they're not all as colourful as these.

rodwsmith posted:

Need Italian wines not available in France = drive to Italy.
Drive to Italy = lunch in Italy.
Lunch in Italy = not too difficult to endure.

Tough life.

Not much acqua in Dolceacqua.

Bridge that Monet painted (a picture of).

"Lunch in Italy not too difficult  to endure"I totally agree with this euphemism.Nice to see Dolceacqua with so poor acqua indeed,last august it was the double.Hope you found the wines you were looking for.Ciao Rod.

Hope you pardon my parochialism

Ti ringrazio Fabio! Amo Dolceacqua, la città, i vini (Rossese e Pigato/Vermentino). Apricale è ancora più meglio!!

JamieWednesday posted:

Great!

Thanks Gianluigi

            The Young Prince

You cannot take pictures in Chinese Temples. Unless you look down.

Two rather different environments.

                   Just watching

Blue Afternoon