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    Peter Abrams website on the wayback machine

    Hi everybody, since Peter Abrams most useful website on antique telescopes and binoculars - formerly reachable under http://www.europa.com/~telscope/ - has gone offline sometimes in 2023 and I have since spent some precious time to find it on wayback machine on numerous occasions, here is the...
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    Male lynx photgraphed while sitting on school soccer field

    Hi, a fascinating article about an adult male eurasian lynx who has roamed across half of germany and was found by kids sitting on a school soccer field near Frankfurt...
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    Open source environmental audio recorder

    Hi, just stumbled upon this project called AudioMoth by Open Acoustic Devices a collaboration of scientists from University of Southampton and Oxford University. This is battery powered, long endurance, open hard- and software recorder for audible and ultrasound (up to 192 kHz) ranges. Since...
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    DIY high endurance trail cam

    Hi, I have just found the following DIY trail cam project based on the ESP32-cam module on hackaday... http://marksbench.com/electronics/esp32-cam-low-power-trail-camera/ So why should you bother? - Very cheap - it costs maybe $15 to $20 in parts but you need to build it yourself and print...
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    Single large gull mobbing black kite

    Hi, today I was watching one of my local pair of black kites from the balcony taking off from a perch. A single large gull (probably Larus michahellis as these are common here) came by and started attacking the kite. I can often see a flock of crows mobbing the black kites, but this was quite...
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    Kowa announces 1.6x extender for small body scopes!

    Hi, I just found the announcement of the Kowa system s on the Kowa webpage. It is a new name for the small body scope system - not a lot of news besides an 1.6x extender - this might be interesting for some current and old fluorie and ED bodies...
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    Who are we?

    Hi, both of these images were shot yesterday and the day before in close vicinity of a black kite nest (170m across the river from my balcony) - haven't seen any chicks or juveniles up to now this year, but last year there was two, which I only saw begging for food in the nest but not later due...
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    Raptor at Gunung Leuser, Northern Sumatra

    Hi, maybe sb can help with a large raptor we saw on a walk out of Bukit Lawang. Unfortunately it was not very cooperative and stayed halfway hidden behind a branch an foileage and took off before we could get a closer image. Brown head and crest, white breast and throat, dark eyes. Any ideas...
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    New super wide angle IF bin from Nikon on photokina

    Hi, wasn't on photokina but found a report of the elusive monster bin on the german juelich forum. Here's the link for those who read german. http://www.juelich-bonn.com/jForum/read.php?9,432108 Some quick facts for those who don't: - not porro but uses Abbe-Koenig prisms with objectives...
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    • Forum: Nikon
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    Pushing old Kowa bodies to the limit

    Hi, as some might have read, I own an old TSN-3 and thanks to this forum I found that the Opticron SDLv2 makes a very nice zoom for this body which fits almost out of the box by putting a rubber o-ring into the thread as a spacer. It's actually better than the current Kowa zoom for the small...
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    A blast from the past...

    Hi, some time ago I found an ad in the local classifieds which sparked my interest despite the fact that I own enough bins... an old pair of Nikon reverse porros in 8x23 for 20€ or so. Some research showed that these were a pair of Venturer II 8x23 of Steve Ingraham and Consumer Report fame...
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    • Forum: Nikon
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    SE Mk2 Series

    Dear Mr. Nikon, and while we are at it - what about a new edition of the SE series for 100th aniversary? Regards, Joachim
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    A photo guide with an interesting twist

    Hi everybody, I know many of you will be inclined to quickly go on to the next thread since photo guides are not very useful. Generally I agree but the german "Was fliegt denn da? Der Fotoband" has an interesting idea which makes it unique so far. At first glance the book looks quite normal...
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