Just recieved it today, has anyone got any tips for bird photography, and any links to bird shots taken with one.
Many thanks
Go to the gallery and type in "fz28", omitting the quotes. All the returned results will be pictures taken with the FZ28, including some of mine.
As for settings:
The Intelligent Auto mode is pretty good for most shots, there's no shame in using it, especially while you are learning about the camera. Also, experiment with the camera in P mode on the dial, if you find settings that work, save to C1 (custom settings). You could have settings for Low Light, Birds in Fight, etc, there are 4 custom settings you can save.
You may want to limit ISO to 800 as the highest, although ISO 1600 is fine for small prints. There's a picture in my gallery of a Jay with a monkey nut in it's mouth, that was ISO 800, judge it for yourself if you think there's too much noise at ISO 800.
And read the manual, it's a brilliant camera, but you need to learn about all the settings. Take a few thousand pictures with it (I took 2000 the first week I got it) and you'll learn quite a bit.|=)|
Oh and don't worry about battery life, I took over 1000 pictures (outdoors, no flash) and the battery had only just gone down to one bar left, but I charged it anyway.