[HelenB]

Got several pix of the choughs at South Stack on Anglesey, on 12th Sept. Here's one of the better ones.

Olympus C700UZ on full 10x optical zoom. Cropped with Photoshop

[Avib]

Hi Helen.
I love your shots very much, thanks for sharing them.
I see that you are useing the Olympus-c-700 which I consider to buy instad of my old SLR Nikon That was stolen. Whold you recomand that camera? Is it good for digiscoping?

[HelenB]

Hi Avi,
The Olympus C700 is really not suitable for digiscoping. I have tried, but the diameter of the lens is too big and you get a lot of vignetting. For examples, see the pages on digiscoping on my website:
http://naturephotography.homestead.com

It is a good camera for when you can get reasonably close to a bird, but I wish it was more than 2.1 megapixels. I saw some info on a mailorder website <http://www.ssdonline.com>, that Olympus have just brought out a new camera (C720) that is 3.3 megapixels and 8X optical zoom. It was priced at about US$500.

I have a Nikon Coolpix 4500 for digiscoping, but haven't done much lately. Am waiting for the cooler weather to arrive here in south Texas, before I get back out into the field.

Hope this helps.
Helen

[ralph]

Another fine picture Helen, thank you.

Hope you enjoyed South Stack & Anglesey.

[Avib]

Hi Helen.
Tank You for the information, it's very helpfull.
And also your website is very well edited and nice to visit.