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    R5 8k video

    Therein lies the rub ;) Although I will confess to having used stabilisation in post, given a stable enough background, and the cropping out the highly shifting borders. You could probably even then use a compositing plane on the result to make as if you were panning. It's not going to win you...
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    Canon EF USM L 100-400 Mk1 repair -

    Way back in 2006-7 is I bought one of these lenses. Took some time out from birding and on inspection this lens had fungus, scrubbed it with IPA and it's better, but soft at the top right of the image, because I had to remove the front element to get at both sides to redce the fungus. When I...
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    Bird sound recording question -Reducing handling noise and faff

    Foam pipe lagging (with rubber bands if necessary) on a solid handle, and listening through your recorder. It's not as good as a shockmount, but you can't beat the price and robustness, and if you listen as you record you can learn a little bit how to relax your grip enough. The other way is to...
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    Barn owl camera

    That's neat - lovely birds. It will be great seeing the young 'uns, and hopefully enough food around that you won't see the older young eat the little ones, which is a bit tough, though it's natures way of conserving resources... The camera's the same sort of tech, there's probably a factory in...
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    Microphone for mounting on a hotshoe

    FWIW I have used a gustbuster on a camcorder, and it greatly improved the wind interference. Nowhere near as good as a ME66 with a Rycote Softie but a very worthwhile improvement. subject to the overall crappiness of camera sound - AGC and the cheapest noisy electrets made in Shenzen. As Jon...
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    Microphone for mounting on a hotshoe

    Yeah, looks like Rycote have been getting out ot the inbuilt mic wind protection. They used to do a neat range for camcorders called gustbuster, but I guess everyone uses a phone or a DSLR nowadays. Having said that, you could busk it using the same idea and something like these lavalier...
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    Barn owl camera

    Lucky you! Sort of guessing you have power or can run a wire, I'd use something like Reolink E1 Zoom, which you can move around and zoom in. It's wifi and you need 5V power, you can see it on an app or a website on your LAN. You can save recordings and transfer them via wi-fi Quality is way...
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    Microphone for mounting on a hotshoe

    In that case, use the mics you have got ;) Rycote Micro Windjammers on your existing camera microphones could be your friend. Obvs there you are paying Rycote prices, though £12 would be in budget, but a bit of inspection of their approach shows you how you could DIY something like that for less...
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    DIY Portable Recorder

    How are you planning to overcome the lack of audio sensitivity on these boards? I used a Pi with PiJuice battery module (which gives me a RTC and a sort of sleep/autostart and I plan to use some of these to scout places without having to get up early and be in several places at once. But the...
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    DIY Portable Recorder

    Just because it can be done with a Pi doesn't mean it has to be ;) Something like a LS-10 runs for half a day from two AA batteries, it's small, light and works well. You could add your functions by using one of the stereo channels as a slate channel and on the other side of the slate SPDT...
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    What is buzzing noise that Olympus LS-12 is recording?

    Is it there with internal or the external mics, or both? I had the earth connection go on a Soundman OKM binaural pair of mics. Picked up no end of whine from the display, which of course went when I unplugged the external mics. Unfortunately I didn't jump to that before I had the LS10 in...
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    external mike or not?

    18cm Rycote Softie with pistol grip Works a treat with the ME66, and the back of the mic sticks out leaving the switch exposed
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    Zeiss 65 Diascope

    Isn't that why you bought it ;) Let's face it, that's why any of us buy a 'scope. If the birds would stay where they are till we could get a couple of metres away we'd not bother. At 20x the difference doesn't matter. Flat out it does. Not toting the extra weight around is also nice...
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    How to setup H4N

    Nice mic, I have the same. I assume you have the K6 adapter which takes the battery http://en-uk.sennheiser.com/modular-microphone-system-k-6 It does in fact also let you use P48 power from the recorder, but use a battery first to make things simple. Use a XLR to XLR cable to the recorder...
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    How to setup H4N

    Depends on your mic. What model is it, and does it use 48V phantom power?
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