• Welcome to BirdForum, the internet's largest birding community with thousands of members from all over the world. The forums are dedicated to wild birds, birding, binoculars and equipment and all that goes with it.

    Please register for an account to take part in the discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.
ZEISS DTI thermal imaging cameras. For more discoveries at night, and during the day.

Search results

thxpress_search_the_forum Search Opus
  1. graham catley

    ATX95 internal problem

    Last Sunday using the ATX 95 looking at the Humber two of us were stood in a cold frosty area when the sun broke through 20m away -- we moved and I suddenly noticed that the Humber seemed to have gone foggy! wondering if there was something on the external lens of the scope I looked in the...
  2. graham catley

    300 v 100-400

    anyone in a position to compare image quality of the 300 2.8 II and 1.4x against the new 100-400 II at 400mm? The new lens is a pretty light compared to the 300 and considerably smaller for travelling and has the versatility of using anything from 100mm - 560mm with a 1.4 but the 300 2.8 of...
  3. graham catley

    Canon 5D3

    see Park Cameras are doing it at £1999 today only -- a brilliant camera at a great price --
  4. graham catley

    slide scanning

    I know I asked this a few years back but never got round to doing it -- now I need the space so can anyone recommend a good place to get slides scanned to digital; mainly K64 but I have a lot to do perhaps 500 so price is significant but quality is also high priority
  5. graham catley

    New Canon 500 f4

    Is it just beyond everyone's purchasing power or has no one tried one yet? Reviews by birders seem to be very limited with the exception of those who have been given them!
  6. graham catley

    Canon 300 2.8 Mark 2

    A challenge for the first recipients of the new lens;; with the 2x converter mark 3 is it a viable replacement for the 500f4 re AF speed and IQ ? many of the people now with bad backs and 500's I am sure will be interested; old 300 2.8 II and 2x mark 3 this morning below
  7. graham catley

    pro scanning 35mm slides

    anyone used any of the many companies offering pro conversion of 35mm slides to digital and have any recommendations? I have about 3000 that need doing --
  8. graham catley

    Directional mike

    as the Senn ME66 is £660 or so I wonder if anyone has tried the much much cheaper Hama RMZ-10 advertised by Wildsounds -- choice of recorded seems pretty straightforward but would this affordable mike work with the Olympus LS-10 and produce any decent results there is also a Senn MKE 300 - is...
  9. graham catley

    Digital projectors

    not sure where this should be -- looking for advice on buying a projector for lectures -- any advise or direction appreciated
  10. graham catley

    1DIII missing terminal cover

    Last year I suddenly found that the small plastic screw in cover for the Extension System Terminal on the side of my 1DIII was missing -- fortunately I found it in the floor well of my car; Saturday it has happened again (I have never removed this cover and never used the terminal) this time its...
  11. graham catley

    Aperture

    anyone use Aperture on the Mac and have any opinions on it?
  12. graham catley

    comparing AF

    Is there a comparison anywhere of the AF performance of the Nikon D300 v the Canon 1DIII particularly in relation to targets against distracting backgrounds as several pro wildlife photographers seem to be going down the Nikon route of late typically with the more expensive Nikons but the D300...
  13. graham catley

    the versatile Monopod

    Much is written in this forum and others about the absolute necessity of having a £600 set of tripod legs and £600 Wimberley type head in order to get sharp photos with a 500 or 600mm lens; I must admit to owning such a pricey set up but I also have a Gitzo monopod which cost too much at about...
  14. graham catley

    1DIII dust

    Just had my 1DIII back at Canon for the AF fix (still seems the same to me!) -- after a couple of weeks use I switched it on and got an error message relating to the non-function of the sensor cleaner but it disappeared before I could get the error number or the exact message. Assuming it was a...
  15. graham catley

    Mac and external hard drives

    I have 2 500GB Lacie hard drives attached to the iMac -- all configured and working fine; swapped the hard drives to a new USB2 Belkin hub and all was fine; today though I unplugged the power plugs from the two hard drives when the Mac was switched off and the hard drives switched off at the...
  16. graham catley

    CF card speed slowing down?

    I have been using the same Sandisk 4GB Extreme III card for several months formating every day after use; of late it seems to be taking quite a bit longer to write to the camera with the buffer filling up quicker and I wonder if it is possible that the card speed can effectively decrease with...
  17. graham catley

    Corrupting CR files

    Can anyone hazard a guess at how I have lost all yesterday's shots? All RAW files copied to computer hard drive and viewed in Bridge -- all is fine then I use batch rename Shift / Apple / R on Mac to rename all Marsh Harrier shots -- now this may be where I did something wrong -- put in Marsh...
  18. graham catley

    Warehouse Express is this legal?

    In the glossy Christmas brochure distributed by WE the Wimberley Mark 2 is advertised at £399 -- upon trying to order they simply state that it is a typing error and the price is £499 -- as they have advertised the item at a set price are they legally bound to sell it at this price?
  19. graham catley

    Photo books for Mac

    anyone had any experience with any company who do a good job on producing photo books from Mac excluding iMac which seems to entail a postal journey from the US
  20. graham catley

    accommodation

    can anyone recommend reasonable and well placed accommodation in the Tarifa / Bolonia area early September please?
  21. graham catley

    Neat Image

    is there a stand alone NI version for Mac which is downloadable? all I can seem to find is the demo plug-in which is pretty useless with its 1024px limitations
  22. graham catley

    changing default open program for JPegs on Mac

    being a complete novice on the new Mac I cannot seem to get rid of the default opening program which is Preview for JPegs; I can open single images by right click and open with etc but cannot seem to find the Windows option of open all files of this type with etc: help please?
  23. graham catley

    Capture 4 40D RAWs

    Capture 4 is now out and I have trialled the new version which converts RAW's from the 1DII better than anything else I have tried; it supports the 40D files BUT all of my 40D pics seem to be about 1 - 1 and a half stops underexposed when viewed in the Capture 4 library; they come up with...
  24. graham catley

    delete all (NO)

    after 3 years with various DSLR's today I did the dreaded delete all while trying to get rid of a few Short-eared Owl shots in a cramped car; first question why is this facility on any DSLR? it is profoundly dangerous and of no actual use; if you want to delete all then just format the card...
  25. graham catley

    40D RAWs again

    still struggling with work on 40D RAWs------Capture One Beta 4 does an excellent job in conversion but I cannot seem to rename files from within the software and it only seems to be possible to delete one image at once so if like me you have 200 consecutive images which are in need of trashing...
Back
Top