Hi,
yep, got it since Monday. I like it, it does take a little getting used to not having a screen to look at though. If you don't have too high expectations on excellent recordings, it's really nice. It has no "super-sennheiser-directional-microphone" on it but it works good if the subject is reasonably close. Great for those birds you don't recognise, the built in "always listening" mode that always remember up to 8 seconds BEFORE you pressed "record" is cool. Nice when you just heard a strange call and wasn't recording, just press record and you will get the last 8 seconds.
I have put some recordings from my first night out on the Remembird forum (go to remembird.com and select support and the link to the forum) The thrush nightingale was about 40 meters away and the marsh warbler at about 15 meters. Note that I had turned down the gain so the levels were a bit low, on the other hand you get more noise if you turn up the gain.
I have an adapter for external microphone on the way so I hope to be trying my dads parabola mike with the RBII some day soon.
The built in audio guide is easy to use one you get used to it (remember, no screen to look at
) I haven't used it so much since it's in English but I have been helping out with translating it into Swedish and the implementation is really logical and easy to understand. The announcer reads "A to F, E to H" for instance and you press the joystick when you hear what you need. Ex. "A to E" press "A, B, C" press "Corncrike, Coromant" etc. Easy to drill down to what you need to hear.
Haven't used the notes feature so much yet but should probably do it more as I tend to forget some sightings when I summarize my day out.. :h?:
Fit to the binocular is something I haven't used so much yet, it fits on my smallish Nikon Monarch 10x36, even if it feels a little bulky with it. The velcro doesn't stay on too good though on the Nikon rubber.
The PC application is quite well developed, major version 4 currently. You have the ability to find your recordings by date, species or location, add annotations, species and rating to recordings. Create your own audioguide, listen to the built in audioguide, export recordings to wav or mp3 etc..
Support from Chris (the inventor) has been great.
So, to put it short, I like it |
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//Björn