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    Upton Warren

    Delighted to hear this. :t: B (: Particularly after the behaviour in the Avocet hide on the last two occasions I've visited this week: All of the requests on the notices being violated. At one time hands pointing and 6 lenses waving around out of the window while people talked loudly between...
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    Upton Warren

    Totally with you John. I guess this comes from a background of some people who legitimately use the reserve complaining if asked to show their cards / permits. In my view any of us who support any Wildlife Trust should be happy that people are being challenged and not be offended; why should...
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    Upton Warren

    Hi John (Upstarts) I've lost your number so I've had to pm you, hope you've noticed! Roger
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    Canon 7D Mk II is announced and available for pre-order

    Wow, what a shame that ended like that! It came out of the blue to me, never saw that coming. It's difficult not to take posts personally I suppose but as an outsider, and this was not a closed conversation, I learnt a lot by hearing two points of view. Surely that's what the forum is about...
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    Back button focus

    Hi Schulz! I'm not 100% sure I understand your thinking but perhaps the following might clarify things.: if you set back button focusing and then choose AI-Servo you have, in effect, AI-Servo and Single Shot under instant control of the back button. Aim your camera, push back button to focus...
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    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Thanks Hughie, That explains a lot, in particular the comment about authorising feeding. I agree with all that you say. Roger
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    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    I'm not really clear about this but before I go on lets get things clear: I AM NOT suggesting this practice is in any way acceptable. However, the question: "would you allow the feeding to a resident or vagrant bird on any of your sites?" surely cannot have been answered simply: "No". All of...
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    Upton Warren

    Beginners' Birdwatching course seems to have generated good feedback from course members again. Several people say that they now have the confidence to come again on their own so there may be some new faces around who will respond to a bit of gentle encouragement. It was great for several of...
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    Upton Warren

    Thanks Phil, nicely put! We anticipate 15 participants and given that they've paid for the course it's helpful if they can get a seat and a view, however if there is anybody passing through it's always good if they can help to encourage the learners to show how friendly the U/W regulars are! We...
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    Upton Warren

    Belt & Braces I know there are notices on the hides to warn people about the annual Absolute Beginners Birdwatching course that will be running this coming Saturday and I think John included this in an earlier post about visiting groups but I thought I'd just remind people on here too! We have...
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    Upgrade dilemma - which route would you take?

    Prices on 7D mkii starting to fall. £250 cash back on 100-400 mkii with 7D mkii. Sell or exchange your mki camera and lens and you should have a much improved image quality, shorter focussing distance, better autofocus and the ability to use an extender (original 100-400 with extender was only a...
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    New Canon megapixel camera - Anti-Aliasing (AA) or not?

    Hmm! Bit less exciting than at first thought! Thanks for the explanation. As a Canon enthusiast since film days I'm a bit disappointed with them at the moment! At my stage of life and collection of Canon kit I feel locked in. I'm just hoping that a new sensor and improved quality control...
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    New Canon megapixel camera - Anti-Aliasing (AA) or not?

    I'm obviously missing something with my basic understanding: how will these cameras 'switch' to a crop? What will one see in the viewfinder? What is the difference between the camera switching to 1.6 crop and me cropping a full frame image in post processing?
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    Critique

    A bit of a hobby horse of mine I'm afraid but the 'law' of shutter speed needs to be reciprocal of focal length was suggested way before digital sensors. If it was ever meaningful it now needs to be modified to included sensor size: i.e. Multiply by 35mm equivalent 'crop factor' and then...
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    What lens to take

    Oops - big fingers sent instead of corrected. ... Auto focus but even manual focus on tripod gives me poor results). If your 400 works better I'd use that and the SX50 for close up / general views etc.
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    What lens to take

    In my experience (with 7D1) 100-400 and converter is a poor combination (and yes I know you can now auto
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    7D11 vs 5D3 and 1DX

    Just interested to know why camera shake will be more of a problem with a 1.6 crop. Once a full frame is enlarged to 1.6x surely the subject blur will be the same? I'm confused as to why all the magazines etc still refer to the reciprocal of focal length as a minimum shutter speed, surely that...
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    Autumwatch 2014

    Unfortunately what some of the contributions above have missed is that I believe it is the law that any hobby based programme: singing, dancing, baking, sewing, decorating has to finish with 5 minutes of voting one of the participants off the show and then 2mins of shots of said person having a...
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    Image Quality for presentations

    Thanks again mono.
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    Image Quality for presentations

    Thanks Mono for that rapid and helpful reply. Keynote 'seems' so easy to use. When I used PowerPoint I was used to having to drag the image handles to fit the template, sometimes this was a drastic reduction in size from the image onto the template. Was this process reducing the pixel size or...
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    Image Quality for presentations

    I'm not sure whether this should be in this section or under the photography threads. I'd be happy to be advised to change it. I have a pretty poor understanding of resolution / ppi / dpi / image quality etc. I deliver a number of presentations using a Macbook or iPad and a pretty cheap Acer...
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    Upton Warren

    Not sure 'unselective' is right. If John's right about the cause, then a bird which hangs around for a week in an unsafe habitat probably needs it's genes removed from the population for the sake of Temminck'skind. Isn't evolution wonderful? B****y upsetting for birderkind though! Especially...
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    46 Megapixel Canon DSLR. Pinch of salt time?

    How many lenses have a resolution which matches this?
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    Image Editing Software

    Probably better in Photoshop etc. section. But while we're here: Mac versions of photoshop are available, used to be every other update was a Mac version, not sure if that still applies.
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    Upton Warren

    WWT Course complete, thanks for cooperation and help from those in the hides. Very positive views expressed from participants. Some off to buy bins etc. good result!
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