5.10.2020 A new trip to Grebe Lake.

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I cycled to Grebe Lake only for it to pour down. Albeit briefly. I captured a short video to show the Grebes being bombarded with giant rain drops. Lots of pictures with the Leica 100-400 but I haven't checked them yet. Yet again I experimented with the in-built Teleconverter and Digital Zoom as the Grebes stuck to the far shore as usual.

The image [right] is more like a painting than a  photograph but I rather liked the bird's pose.

 I had the Kowa '884 telescope with me but had left a vital adapter ring at home. I shall leave the ring clamped in its housing from now on! The view through the telescope was bright, amazingly close-up at only 25x and gorgeously detailed despite the very dull conditions. The Kowa has the finest optics I have ever looked through.

The image [left] is very noisy from digital enlargement, heavy cropping and resizing. Probably captured using the G9's inboard 4x digital zoom to boot. The bird was simply too far away [120 yards] to capture well under today's very dull conditions using the Leica 100-400mm. 

The absence of any focal length data on the camera settings is a weakness of the Lumix G9. Leaving the user to wildly guess as to which settings were actually used for each image. Since this is all part of the camera's programming it can't be that difficult to have the information available. The same holds true for the zoom lenses. Why is the focal length not displayed in the viewfinder? It is readily available in image cataloguing software [like Picasa3] so obviously exists in concrete numbers.

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