Another cycle ride to another lake on the far side of a small village. Unlike the last one, this mature lake was well furnished with full grown trees and cover on most sides. The owner came along while I was taking still pictures, through a gap in the trees, from the side of a quiet lane. He encouraged me to go closer along the grass bank.
The following video was partially successful but I still have much to learn about focusing accurately on the tiny camera screen. Panning and tilting requires great delicacy at the equivalent focal length of a digiscoping system!
I was very lucky and concentrating on a solitary Grebe. Which was preening out in the middle of the lake. A Shelduck family had been for a tour and were returning to the far shore. When they passed just beyond the Grebe. My apologies for the wind noise. I am adding a calm, ambient soundtrack.
Another, shorter video of the Shelduck family having arrived on the far shore at 170 yards.
Obvious faults are:
Lack of uprightness. [Vortex Razor has a floppy, rubber, eyepiece ring which has no stability in rotation!
Shaky pan and tilt movement and telescope zooming at high magnification!!
Center and then leave the whole thing well alone!
Image quality and colours are almost acceptable considering the distance and magnification involved.
Lack of uprightness. [Vortex Razor has a floppy, rubber, eyepiece ring which has no stability in rotation!
Shaky pan and tilt movement and telescope zooming at high magnification!!
Center and then leave the whole thing well alone!
Image quality and colours are almost acceptable considering the distance and magnification involved.
After taking about 80 stills and four short videos the Canon battery was dead again! My Panasonic TZ7 manages hundreds of stills and loads of videos without complaint between charges! The Canon battery was supplied with the camera, from new, so is very unlikely to be a fake.
A "genuine" Canon replacement battery costs over £40 equivalent! "Pretend" batteries about £8. Duracell offer a replacement NB-4L but I won't touch them with a very long barge pole!
Replacing the Canon battery means removing the camera from the Vortex PS-100 digiscoping adapter. Boring! I don't need this battery handicap while I am practicing my digiscoping skills! Or, rather, lack of them.
I saw a dirt cheap Ixus 117HS in the small adds complete with battery. Tempting!
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