Three excellent photos; quite a feat for afocal, I’m very impressed with their sharpness. Have they been cropped? I ask because during my limited forays into digiscoping, I always ended up with a circular vignette.
Do you get many of these beautiful birds in your back garden?
Three excellent photos; quite a feat for afocal, I’m very impressed with their sharpness. Have they been cropped? I ask because during my limited forays into digiscoping, I always ended up with a circular vignette.
Do you get many of these beautiful birds in your back garden?
Cheers
Dennis
Hi,Dennis
Yes they are cropped,in Picasa2,UNLESS,I zoom the camera a little,to get rid of it.
The pics are not radically processed,simply cropped,if necessary,and sharpened 1 unit,if necessary.
The eyepiece used is a Vixen .965, 18mm Orthoscopic,fitted to a home made 1.25" adapter,I cut the wide edge off the eyepiece,so I could fit the top of a 35mm film cannister,over it.
This allows the camera tube to be a reasonably, snug fit on top of the eyepiece lens,so the shot is fairly centered.
Although,I have often seen the Beautiful Rosellas,in the trees before (Long distance away),I have Never had one in my yard,until my Mate gave me a little feeder,a couple of weeks ago.
Now,I get birds all over the place.
As to Sharpness,
Well,I have included a couple of shots from today,(the Rosella came back),
but,on the ground this time
I tried a 15mm El cheapo Plossl,You all know where it's from,
Now that is a fine looking bird, beautiful colours, great pic's.
Leon
Hi,Leon,
Glad you also liked the pics.
The Rosella,is indeed a fine looking bird,and to me,usually,not easy to photgraph,as the buggers,are very,timid,and at the slightest noise,or movement.
They are gone.
great stuff we have a pair that have been getting fed to well for a couple of years now .. yes they are a very timid bird ,despite us being round them for a long time they still are extremely wary .. they have just finished this years brood off and are bringing there young down atm.. I guess they are a little more tolerant these days as we can sit out back quite close to them .
listen for em complaining if your to close to there seed , they actually whinge quite a lot
Nice pics John.Very clear sharp & the ED80 renders quite a nice bokeh as well.
Hi Robin,
Glad you liked the pics also,
Your right the Bokeh,is quite good,I have the ED80,and the ortho to thank for the shots,no skill on my part,I just hold the camera up to the eyepiece.
Heres another taken today,I think it is the best so far,
Not as sharp,as I would like though,I THINK,I used the 15mm Plossl,to get a little closer,and zoomed the camera to get rid of the vignette,no other processing,except a reduction in size.
John, I was assigned by the Age last year to photograph an old war plane in the middle of a lake in western Victoria which was once dry & used for practising take offs & landings. It must have been at least 600 metres away & in about 2 metres of water so i hooked my DSLR up to my orion ED80 & I was surprised at how good the resolution was & how well it pulled the subject in.Not practical for everyday shooting but certainly gave me good 'reach' when i needed it.
John, I was assigned by the Age last year to photograph an old war plane in the middle of a lake in western Victoria which was once dry & used for practising take offs & landings. It must have been at least 600 metres away & in about 2 metres of water so i hooked my DSLR up to my orion ED80 & I was surprised at how good the resolution was & how well it pulled the subject in.Not practical for everyday shooting but certainly gave me good 'reach' when i needed it.
Hi Robin,
All the old aircraft are interesting to me,
I would love to see your photo.
great stuff we have a pair that have been getting fed to well for a couple of years now .. yes they are a very timid bird ,despite us being round them for a long time they still are extremely wary .. they have just finished this years brood off and are bringing there young down atm.. I guess they are a little more tolerant these days as we can sit out back quite close to them .
listen for em complaining if your to close to there seed , they actually whinge quite a lot
I think your probably right johno.. we have been round them a while now and
for a parrot they are very antisocial .. our pair haveing just reared there young have already got rid of them and are alone again .. I must point this fact out to our children
we have 3 cockateils and a disturbed budgie for company
Ric I didn't know that Sulpher Crested Cockatoos grew in the ground
I must point this fact out to our children
