Neil posted
"Nice kestrel images Malc. Particularly at that distance. It must be a great adapter. Neil.
ps if I had a kestrel sit still for 10 minutes in Hong Kong I would take about 30 - 50 images at all zooms of the camera, Jpegs and Raw, iso 100 and iso 50 and if still time change to higher magnification eyepiece. But that's just me. I haven't seen one perched at all in 2 years"
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Neil
I only have the adaptors I have made, so cannot compare them with others. This one is quite strong and rigid, probably the box section arm, and tightening with wing bolts helps in that respect.
It was about four minutes the Kestrel sat for me, the first picture I took was a hurried one, fear of it flying off, was uppermost in my mind. Needless to say that picture was rubbish !
The pictures after that were a lot better, and yes I had time to try different settings, even changed eypieces from the 30X DS to the 25-75 mc11 zoom. The zoom ones were not as good as the 30X.
Having just gone down to the local marsh to try out the new adaptor, having got the Kestrel, I packed up the gear, and rushed home to see what I had got. A good start for the new adaptor, proves it is ok.
It seems really strange having the eyepiece and camera lens exposed, got so used to the tube adaptor, with nothing showing. Soon found out the problem of flare on the exposed lenses, so made the clip on cover to fix over the lenses (picture on earlier posting in this thread).
Can't believe you have not had a Kestrel perched in the last two years, all the time you spend birdwatching. Do you have many Kestrel in HK ?
Our Kestrels must be a lazy variant, often see them perched.
Malc