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Digiscoping Lifer List for See Toh (1 Viewer)

SeeToh

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Had just gone into digiscoping and would like to start afresh a list of my digiscoping lifers here. Photo quality may be quite bad as I only started digiscoping on Oct 8, 2011. Hope viewers will be understanding in this regard;)

#1 digiscoping lifer is a female Blue-winged Leafbird

Taken with Nikon Coolpix P300 coupled with Nikon 82mm ED Fieldscope.
Camera settings: 6.3mm ISO 160 1/320s f/2.8 0EV
No processing
50% crop

Sorry for the messy background
 

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#2 is a black-headed bulbul who refused to turn its head towards me :C

Setting: 6.3mm ISO 160 1/40s f/4.5 0EV

Sorry for the backside shot. This is the best record I could get of this rare resident breeder of Singapore until my camera battery gone flat :C Lesson learnt: bring along spare batteries next round |:D|

Hope to get a better shot of this bird when I visit Panti, Malaysia where they are common.
 

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#3 - White-winged Tern in non-breeding plummage.

The bird was around 80m away and there was a tall wire-fence in between us. It was also quite windy when the shot was taken.

Had underexposed the shot by setting -0.7EV, f/7.8, 1/500s ISO160 and focal length 17.9mm.
 

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#4 - Juvenile Tiger Shrike
Settings: 8.1mm ISO 160 1/100s f/2.8 -0.7EV
 

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#5 - Female Asian Paradise Flycatcher

Settings: 7.2mm ISO 160 1/125s f/4.1 -0.7EV
 

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Welcome to the world of digiscoping. You are getting some nice results already with the P300. I hope you're having fun.
 
Hi Neil

Really am enjoying this new toy of mine.

Got my #6 in harsh low light condition. Got to up the ISO to 1600 to get a decent record shot. As this bird stayed put for over 30 minutes, I should have shot at manual and increase the exposure time to get a brighter image at lower ISO.

Settings: 7.2mm ISO 1600 1/30s f/2.6 +2.0EV
Brightness, contrast and sharpness had been increased.

Male Blue-eared Kingfisher
 

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#7 Lesser Whistling Duck
Settings: 5.5mm ISO 160 1/80s f/5.3 -2.0EV
 

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#8 Juvenile Crow-billed Drongo
Settings: 6.3mm ISO 160 1/60s f/2.8 0EV
Sorry for the lousy perch|:(|
 

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#9 Broad-billed Sandpiper in non-breeding plummage
Settings: 17.9mm ISO 160 1/125s f/2.8 0EV
 

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Welcome to digiscoping.... Pic quality is one thing but digiscoping makes u slow down and appreciate birds a bit as shots don't come as easy.....good shots, hv fun
 
#10 Red-necked Stint in non-breeding plummage
Settings: 17.9mm ISO 160 1/800s f/4.9 -0.3EV
 

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#11 - Common Moorhen
Camera settings: 17.9mm (effective 3000mm) ISO 160 1/400s f/5.5 -1.0EV
Strong morning sunlight and blackish body/head was badly underexposed.
 

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#12 Greater Racket-Tailed Drongo
Camera settings: 5mm (effective 840mm in 35mm terms) ISO 800 1/30s f/2.2 0EV

Trying out digiscoping in bad lighting under manual mode. Shot this very common forest bird at 6pm after a heavy downpour. In many instances, the P300 encountered difficulty focusing although scope was somewhat focused already. Image brightness increased significantly and sharpened before posting.

It is certainly tough digiscoping in low light condition and high ISO setting.
 

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#12 Greater Racket-Tailed Drongo
Camera settings: 5mm (effective 840mm in 35mm terms) ISO 800 1/30s f/2.2 0EV

Trying out digiscoping in bad lighting under manual mode. Shot this very common forest bird at 6pm after a heavy downpour. In many instances, the P300 encountered difficulty focusing although scope was somewhat focused already. Image brightness increased significantly and sharpened before posting.

It is certainly tough digiscoping in low light condition and high ISO setting.

Nice work. I hope you don't mind but I played around with this photo. I love the irradescent colors.
Neil
 

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Nice work. I hope you don't mind but I played around with this photo. I love the irradescent colors.
Neil

Hi Neil

Like the way you re-processed the pic which looked brighter/nicer. A lot more to learn for me both shooting and processing.

Despite low light, the only bonus was that the bird kept pretty still for meo:D

I have problem shooting such long birds since got to keep the focus box on the center of the body but then the eye may not be as sharp as I would like. But if I focused on the eye, the lower body and tail will not be captured unless I move back a couple of meters (that's provide it's possible).

Regards

See Toh
 
Hi Neil

Like the way you re-processed the pic which looked brighter/nicer. A lot more to learn for me both shooting and processing.

Despite low light, the only bonus was that the bird kept pretty still for meo:D

I have problem shooting such long birds since got to keep the focus box on the center of the body but then the eye may not be as sharp as I would like. But if I focused on the eye, the lower body and tail will not be captured unless I move back a couple of meters (that's provide it's possible).

Regards

See Toh

I don't often focus on the eye using Auto Focus as birds head are usually moving too fast , which throws the AF off. Try focusing on the body and them tweak the scope focus just a little to get the head in focus.
Neil
 
#13 Buffy Fish Owl

Pic #1 - Juvenile
Pic #2 - Adult

Camera settings: 6.3mm (effective 1050mm in 35mm terms) ISO 1600 1/30s f/2.5 +2EV No Cropping
 

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Hi Punta - Thanks for the encouraging words. I am still learning how to handle the setup as I am new to photography. It was challenging to shoot owl especially in the evening as the lighting condition get progressive worse. Only plus points were that the subjects were very close (got difficulty to fit the adult fully into the frame) and they remained pretty still. As a matter of fact, the adult buffy remained on the same perch from 5:30 pm (it was already there when I arrived) and was still there at 7 pm when I left the place.
 
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