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  1. ermine

    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...
  2. ermine

    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...
  3. ermine

    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...
  4. ermine

    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...
  5. ermine

    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...
  6. ermine

    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...
  7. ermine

    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...
  8. ermine

    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...
  9. ermine

    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...
  10. ermine

    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...
  11. ermine

    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...
  12. ermine

    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
  13. ermine

    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...
  14. ermine

    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...
  15. ermine

    How to setup H4N

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

    Recommended standard portable (pocket) sound recorder

    Why on earth are you using a transformer with the ME66 into the recorder? Typical PiP recorder inputs are about 6k8 input impedance tops, they match well with the 200ohm typical microphone impedance , which itself wants to see at least 1kohm load according to Sennheiser's spec - such as a...
  17. ermine

    Advice sought for a newbie to bird song recording

    wind-shield. If it's a wing-shield she's probably close enough to the birds :) WSRS is probably a good start
  18. ermine

    Help about a digital recorder Zoom H4n

    Yup http://www.wildlife-sound.org/equipment/recorders/zoomh4n/index.html You can use with with a P48 mic
  19. ermine

    Advice on equipment for soundscapes

    the Telinga isn't the right tool for soundscapes. You're better off with a good MS rig, a spaced NOS pair or a binaural system, depending on how you expect your listeners to hear yoru works (headphones or speakers/radio broadcast). If noise is an issue, you probably need better mics. A spaced...
  20. ermine

    DIY parabolic reflector microphone

    I've used a CJ Wildbird squirrelguard as a reflector, which is nice as you can see through the dish. > Does any one know why the minimum dia should be >50 Cm. the aperture of the dish determines the frequency response. All dishes focus sharper as the frequency rises, but to a first...
  21. ermine

    Microphone?

    Don't buy anything prefixed by spy. The wannabe 007 tax is about 500%. Stick your mike in a enclosure covered with black weed control matting or white garden fleece. That is sound permeable and visually opaque but reduces wind noise no end. Obviously keep the rain off it too. Use a standard...
  22. ermine

    Olympus LS-7

    You need a XLR-3 mono to unbalanced 3.5mm jack adapter cable. I soldered my own, but they are probably available commercially. It is nice ot feed the mono mic signal to both L and R for easy monitoring, though not essential. Advanced constructors put a small attenuator in the R channel so if...
  23. ermine

    Some Zoom H1 questions

    No, most people record in WAV as what has once been lost can never be regained. Using compression has given rise to some controversy and shouldn't be used for scientific processing. For instance the British Library says of making wildlife sound recordings using this sort of recorder The...
  24. ermine

    Some Zoom H1 questions

    For most of us listening particularly in field conditions there won't be much if any difference listening, though you can rarely get some funny artifacts on some high-pitched percussive sounds. Something you often do with bird sounds is make sonograms. You can decide for yourself in the image...
  25. ermine

    Newbie Questions

    Sounds a bit odd, I'd have thought in 8mph wind you'd be able to get things up to full scale no problems :) Do you have the recorder on the high gain setting (can't remember if the H4N had a low and high gain setting so this may not apply). Do you have the limiter engaged, its job is to stop...
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