Anyone wants to follow me the next time I visit Botanical Gardens or Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve for casual birdwatching or digiscoping (bird photography thru the scope) ? This is a good time to observe all the interesting migratory birds as they stopover our little island country. I'm still no seasoned birdwatcher at the moment, but while I'm trying to fully utilize all my equipment that are always sadly sitting around the dry cab in the evenings due to all these clouds (rainy season), I'm slowly learning.
I'll be at Botanical Gardens this Thursday/Sunday.
harlequin2902 wrote:Anyone wants to follow me the next time I visit Botanical Gardens or Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve for casual birdwatching or digiscoping (bird photography thru the scope) ? This is a good time to observe all the interesting migratory birds as they stopover our little island country. I'm still no seasoned birdwatcher at the moment, but while I'm trying to fully utilize all my equipment that are always sadly sitting around the dry cab in the evenings due to all these clouds (rainy season), I'm slowly learning.
I'll be at Botanical Gardens this Thursday/Sunday.
Botanical gardens?? better watch out for Banglas and Filipinos...they love to romance under the trees there. If you point your scope in their direction, you could be in trouble....
Nice pictures Samuel... Did you did some touch ups to these pictures.. Specially the first one shows a bit of extra color along the finges of the feathers.. dont know technical term for describing this effect.. Did you use your pronto to take these pictures..
Ah, that's the reason why serious imagers prefer APO class scopes / lenses you see. This Kingfisher was perched on a branch out in the sunlight, and you can see some colour fringing along the feathers. Look at the branches carefully. You will see a wee bit of purple as well.
Yup, I usually use both the Pronto and Megrez to take these pictures.
Still can't really get the images to appear razor sharp though (look at the feathers of the bird in the second pic - either the camera's focus wasn't sensitive enough or the fine details couldn't be resolved cleanly by the lens), and I'm thinking the fault partly lies in the camera because I've seen much better pics taken with the same scopes but with better cameras.
I'm currently using a consumer class Canon A70...and I didn't really have digiscoping in mind when I bought it :?
You are right Samuel.. Problem with consumer class digicams is that whatever scope (APO, ED) etc you use, there is still a consumer class lens that is built in the camera which wont give you those razor sharp colors and contrast.. Try getting a Digital SLR and attach your pronto directly to it using a T adapter, you will see the difference.. If you look around for a used D30, you can get it below 1K (which is a damn good price for a DSLR)..
This is a good time to observe all the interesting migratory birds as they stopover our little island country. I'm still no seasoned birdwatcher at the moment, but while I'm trying to fully utilize all my equipment that are always sadly sitting around the dry cab in the evenings due to all these clouds (rainy season), I'm slowly learning.
