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    G9 with pancake 20mm F1.7 lens locking up.

    Just to be complete: Further research has thrown up the following. The Kowa TSN-PA7 system avoids using the pancake lens and DA10. The system still uses the Kowa eyepiece but the much larger and longer adapter plugs straight into the camera body via a matching T2 ring. If you have to ask the...
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    G9 with pancake 20mm F1.7 lens locking up.

    It seems I can now answer my own question. :t: The Sirui VH-350 Long Lens Support Plate is probably the answer to my problems. I never knew they existed until today. The VH is compatible with most of the Manfrotto 500 series of video heads and others. They also do a TY-350 long plate for...
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    G9 with pancake 20mm F1.7 lens locking up.

    Hi, First post here. New digiscoping set-up: Decades of photography experience. Kowa TSN-884, 25-60x zoom, DA-10, Panasonic 20mm F1.7 pancake, G9. The weight of the G9 camera on the pancake lens is regularly locking up the camera. I would have gone with the '883 had I known. It might have...
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    Exiled in rural Denmark

    Many thanks. I'm sure I will. I have just discovered a new facet to bird watching: Identify in haste.. repent at leisure. |:S|
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    Exiled in rural Denmark

    Hi James, Thanks for the warm welcome and to the others too. You are probably right. My initial Google search showed mostly pink beaks so I had quickly discounted the Mute. I had just enough time to confirm all black through my binoculars before it left the marsh pond in a hurry. The ducks...
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    Exiled in rural Denmark

    Hi I am British but now live in gorgeous rural Denmark. We swapped our rural, lowland cottage in Snowdonia with all its birds and wildlife for flatter but more undulating countryside. There we had farm animals on the other side of the fence. Here it is all intensive arable farming and the...
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