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  1. nigelblake

    Request Info Clermont and surrounding area

    I will be heading to Florida around the 20th March for 2-3 weeks, and high on my want to photograph list are Snowy and Wilson's Plovers, Killdeer, Eastern Meadowlark and Burrowing Owls. This will be my first trip to the area, and I will have a limted amount of time for birding, 3-5 days maybe...
  2. nigelblake

    A little guide book, Gambia

    Where to watch birds in The Gambia, a 40 page illustrated guide that I have done through "Blurb" http://www.blurb.com:80/bookstore/detail/847648
  3. nigelblake

    Lapwings need our help

    Please read this and watch the (very upsetting) youtube video and respond to the appeal, this is one of my favourite birds and a subject that I have had a great deal of pleasure photographing over many years, the activity in this video must be stopped...
  4. nigelblake

    A history of Scotland

    This looks like a very watchable programme, presented by Neil Oliver (who I think is the BBC's best and least intrusive presenter) it starts on Sunday the 9th November on BBC Scotland, you'll have to wait until a later date for it down south unless you can get BBC Scotland on Satellite TV...
  5. nigelblake

    EOS 5D MkII announced

    An end to rumour and speculation, its the 5D MkII http://www.dpreview.com/news/0809/08091705canon_5dmarkII.asp
  6. nigelblake

    5D replacement teaser

    The new Canon cometh http://www.canon.com/moon/en/
  7. nigelblake

    EOS 50D, it's officially announced

    15.1 million pixels 1.6X crop factor blah blah...... all you need to know on the link. http://www.dpreview.com/news/0808/08082605canoneos50d.asp http://web.canon.jp/imaging/eosd/eos50d/specifications.html
  8. nigelblake

    BBC flying Penguins, oh dear!

    My E-mail to BBC breakfast news re the flying Penguins item is copied below is copied below.................. Bill and Sian Oh dear! you really need to try harder with the April fools gags, Penguins just do not have sophisticated avionics to help them avoid crashing with flying...
  9. nigelblake

    NMIndexStore problem

    I keep getting this (see below) warning popping up, it appears to be part of the Ahead Nero Burning software, however I uninstalled Nero and it still occurs, and still occurs after reinstalling Nero. Whilst it does not seem to affect the the running of my PC its a nuisance, any ideas on how to...
  10. nigelblake

    RAW, reprocess your old shots.

    Its been a bit of a revelation going through some of my older stuff, not least because of the sheer amount of images, but mainly because reprocessing reveals that some of the shots are considerably better reworked with newer software, a far superior PC and no doubt better understanding of whats...
  11. nigelblake

    New Canon 450D announced

    12.2 Mp Canon http://www.dpreview.com/news/0801/08012404canoneos450dhandson.asp
  12. nigelblake

    The man who eats Badgers

    Heads up on a documentary on BBC2 Weds 23rd January, "The man who eats Badgers", is about a man who lives with his vegetarian wife next to the A30 on Bodmin moor, the meat content of his diet consists entirely of "Road kill" and he particularly likes Badgers and Cats............... I wonder if...
  13. nigelblake

    Norfolk Shark eats Seal (its in the Sun)

    Interesting all the same! http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article643371.ece
  14. nigelblake

    Canon EOS 40D new firmware

    Firmware update out today http://web.canon.jp/imaging/eosd/eos40d/eos40d-firmware-e.html
  15. nigelblake

    Histograms explained

    A very useful article on understanding Histograms here for those who have problems with levels etc, understanding this so you can correct before RAW conversion will result in lower image noise than if corrected post-conversion on a jpeg http://www.sphoto.com/techinfo/histograms/histograms.htm...
  16. nigelblake

    BBC2 9pm Tribe Bruce Parry

    BBC2 9pm tuesday Tribe Bruce Parry, if you've never seen this take a look tonight, top notch telly, currently my favourite "can't miss" programme.
  17. nigelblake

    Vista problem with Canon 1D/1Ds files

    There is a Microsoft Vista problem with Canon 1D/1Ds files, this is the older 1D and 1Ds and not the newer MkII models as far as I am aware. It would appear that rotating the images from these camera may mean that Vista renders them corrupt and unrecoverable. A workaround patch is available at...
  18. nigelblake

    EOS 400D Firmware update

    A new firmware update is out today (11-07-2007) for the Canon EOS 400D, it is a relatively minor update that adds support for the new Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) USB protocol. It also corrects errors in the Simplified Chinese menu screens (though this will be of limited interest to most BF...
  19. nigelblake

    Steiner Bins review

    Steiner Bins review added to reviews section http://www.birdforum.net/reviews/showproduct.php/product/231/cat/9/limit/recent/date/1067171723
  20. nigelblake

    camera mounted spirit level.. for FREE

    The March issue of What Digital Camera has a hot shoe mounted spirit level for free, the magazine is £3.99 (UK only), a very usefull accessory especially when shooting wide angle pix. the spirit level looks exactly the same as the one I bought in Jessops for £12.99, worth getting a couple 'cos I...
  21. nigelblake

    awesome beast

    Not canon but look at this 12Mp 64 frames a second RAW http://red.com/cameras.htm
  22. nigelblake

    New Canon 1D series firmwares

    New firmware for 1D MkII, MkIIN and 1Ds MkII released, this enables the use of new higher capacity cards up to 12 and 16 Gb http://www.canon.co.jp/Imaging/BeBit-e.html »EOS-1D Mark II (Ver. 1.2.6) | »EOS-1D Mark II N (Ver. 1.1.2) »EOS-1Ds Mark II (Ver. 1.1.6)
  23. nigelblake

    Image recovery

    A good and bad day today. I am currently shooting images for a feeder catalogue, hence the lack of appearances on BF this week, today I started of with a quite tightly art directed image of a Robin against a background of autumnal colours, over the past few days I have baited the bird to perch...
  24. nigelblake

    Multiple RAW convertion for high dynamic range

    Multiple RAW conversion for high dynamic range There are circumstances when the contrast in a scene would seem too much to enable you get an image that resembles what you see with the eye, and also there are issues with changes in colour temperature throughout the scene as well. One of the...
  25. nigelblake

    New toys from Canon

    http://www.dpreview.com/news/0609/06093002canonm30m80.asp A new media storage device from Canon, 30 and 80 gig flavour soon available. Now this looks like a fine piece of kit, specially designed for lightening the wallet.
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