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Recent content by kNikS

  1. K

    New Panasonic Micro Four-Thirds Camera: the DMC-GX7

    What I am most disappointed with is that long(ish) telephoto primes aren't even in roadmaps. I guess that 150/2.8 will lack reach for anything other than shooting from well prepared blinds, and even with hypothetical 2x TC it will be equal to 100-300's 5.6 at the long end. M4/3 needs decent...
  2. K

    Panasonic GX7 for Digiscoping....

    You can shoot RAW with electronic shutter, but it in fact makes matter worse because of odd distortions it adds to moving subjects, regardless of shutter speed. I use it extensively - not for birds, but to alleviate motion blur caused by myself, e.g. macro shots with fairly static subjects in...
  3. K

    Lumix 100-300 tips please

    I'm afraid not, at least not with G3. Shutter shock is already well known problem with M4/3 cameras, but there is a couple of more things to consider, have a look at the comments: http://www.naturalexposures.com/update-shooting-the-panasonic-gh3/...
  4. K

    DMC LZ30 - bridge too far ?

    Without viewfinder, it's going to be very hard to find and properly expose any bird, IMO. It seems that FZ200 is only Panasonic's superzoom suitable for birding available now, though I'm not sure that I would give ~600$ for a camera with 1/2" sensor and fixed lens (G5 with four thirds sensor is...
  5. K

    Camera advice

    David, AF+MF is at 5th page of Custom Menu, as well as MF Assist and MF Guide. Also, when shooting without the lens (Custom menu, 8th page, Lens OFF) - with non-native lens that is - Manual focus assist is activated via left cursor and (digital) zoom level of the assist is controlled with the...
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    Camera advice

    David, G3 is only ~250$ + 100-300mm for ~500$, and/or ~20$ adapter and all sorts of cheap but optically quite good legacy lenses available - without autofocus and stabilization of course, but this could be alleviated with tripod or monopod. Also, It might be worth waiting a bit for G5 (newer...
  7. K

    Hume's Leaf Warbler?, Afghanistan

    Greenish warbler IMO.
  8. K

    Imm. Grebe (great crested, Little?)

    Adult winter little grebe.
  9. K

    Raptor, Northern Albania

    Black kite, with some of it outer tail feathers missing?
  10. K

    just a few more waders from Titchwell

    #2 & 3# - common redshanks (short bill obvious), otherwise correct.
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    Northern Shrike? - Sask Canada

    Thank you very much too, it was your question that was a real eye opener for me - never before I thought about shrikes as of a "little / boy magpies". And it's hardly exclusively Serbian invention - as far as I can see most if not all Slavic languages have similar words for birds from those two...
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    Northern Shrike? - Sask Canada

    :-O
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    Northern Shrike? - Sask Canada

    My translation wasn't completely accurate - svračak is a simple word, in a sense that it has only one rooth (svraka - magpie, without particular word for male). But on a second thought, -ak is also one of the countless suffixes for diminutive, incidentally male, so you were actually spot on - it...
  14. K

    Warbler(s)?

    1# - willow - yellowish, light beak, no clear white belly and not enough long-winged for wood. 2# - chiffchaff - darkish and uniform, lower half or eye ring stands out.
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    Northern Shrike? - Sask Canada

    LOL, in British English I mean - but in Serbia we indeed call it veliki sivi svračak (pronounced velleekee seevee svruhtchuck :) ), roughly translating "great grey male-magpie" or officially just veliki svračak - "great male-magpie", being the largest and similar lesser grey shrike being just...
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