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    Red Grouse Midlands, UK.

    Hi all. I am researching for areas that hold good numbers of Red Grouse in the Midlands area (North Derbyshire, Staffs, South York’s…Peak District etc). I have found some threads but many of them are 10-15 years old now so mat not be ‘current’. Can anyone suggest areas/places that would be good...
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    Warbler - Trent meadows, Nottinghamshire

    Hi all, not too clever on IDing warblers, which is it
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    I am not great with warblers? Nottinghamshire

    I am not great with identifying unfamiliar warblers, saw this at Attenbougrough Nature reserve, Notts. what is it ?
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    floating hide - uk

    Am interested in seeing if anyone has used a floating hide in the uk, ie photos of your hide, where one can use them - especially notts/derbys/lincs are. am in the process of designing/building one out of foam insulation boards and a bit of plywood etc.
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    Ospreys in cairngorms area ?

    Ospreys in cairngorms area I am planning a trip to the cairngorms/speyside area (staying in Nethybridge) and Ospreys will be one of my target birds (photography), are there any recommended places were they would frequent to fish ?, also may look at the Rothiemurchus estate hides/guided sessions...
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    Advice on airbrush kit needed

    Hi I am toying with the idea of incorporating an airbrush in my art, as a lot of my subjects are from photos I have taken where the background is out of or soft focused. So anyway What should I look for in a kit - I will be using it in the house, so needs to be quiet(ish) Also any one suggest...
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    Acrylic surfaces?

    Hi all Have recently taken up acrylics and am looking forward to posting my work on here. Would like to ask a question to other acrylic artists here - have been using Galeria pads but been disapointed by the detail I can get - the papers have a 'weave' on them which is difficult to get fine...
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    Refillable cartridges or a CISS for printer

    Hi all I have an Epson Stylus Photo 1400 A3 printer and am thinking of going over to refills or a CISS. Anyone have any good recommendations ?. The Epson cartridges for this printer are hard to find sometimes and of course it would be about £60 for a set, so am looking into either refillables...
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    Acrylics - which brands ?

    Anyone have any recommendations as to brands of acrylics to use, artist quality - reasonably priced. Usually paint watercolor and oils, fancy dipping into acrylics.
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    wader hotspots lincolnshire and north anglia coast

    Hi al Can anyone suggest good photogenic spots for wader activity along the Lincolnshire, wash and north Anglia coasts. Preferably quiet with easy access where one can get close enough for good photos of waders, a little like Salthouses where the coastal bank is close to the shore, lying down...
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    which chat?, Lincs UK

    Distant shot at Gibraltar point. Lincolnshire UK Not up on my Chats - is this a stone chat or whin ?
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    600mm non vr lenses - any good ones ?

    Hi all Am looking at sourcing and buying a 600mm AF lens (Nikon, not Sigma or 3rd party) and am wondering if anyone has or has had one, any good suggestions as to which ones I should look for, am not at all bothered about having VR on it as I rarely use it on my 300mm F2.8. Examples of images...
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    UK wood or sky lark ?

    Taken on some heath, scrub land near woods, couldn't detect a crest so am thinking wood lark.
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    300mm F2.8 VRII and VR

    Apart from the added VR options (tripod) and focus memory buttons, is there any optical difference between the Nikon 300mm F2.8 VR and VRII lenses. According to the Nikon site, the optical design and coatings are the same.
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    Nikon 500mm (non VR) advice sought

    HI Anyone have any experience with using a Nikon 500mm AF-S F4D (either the IF-ED or IF-EDII - Non VR) ie along the lines of using with the TC14E (which I have), TC17E and TC20E III. I am thinking on getting this lens as I currently use a Nikon 300mm F4 AF-S and a Nikon 600mm AIS manual focus...
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    Trip to Scotland, suggestions please

    Hello I am going to be visiting Aviemore area at the end of April 2012. I am interested in photographing the wildlife in the area. Obviously loch Garten is one place I will be going to, to see the osprey. Another place I would most likely visit is Loch Ruthven. I would like to track down...
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    Wader in Lincolnshire coast

    I am rubbish at waders, so if some kind soul could ID this for me.
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    Which 300mm zoom to choose

    I am looking at getting a Nikon fit 300mm zoom with VR, there are 4 options I might be interested in, I want it for a 'walkabout' lens on monopod with possible use with a 1.4 TC. Nikon 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G VR AF-S DX NIKKOR Nikon 70-300mm f4.5-5.6G VR AF-S IF-ED Sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 DG OS NAF...
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    D7000 - do you have focus issues

    Hi, would just like to ask D7000 users if they have had any focus issues. Since buying mine I have been disapointed that so many shots were soft focused or just plain out. My D90 never gave me these amounts of rejects. I am usually selective what I shoot and my technique has not changed. Am...
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    Info about gigrin farm

    Hi all I plan to go to Gigrin about spring time, I wonder if anyone has been recently and could answer a few questions. I plan a 2 day (one night) stay, I know on the gigrin site they open about 1pm. How long does the feeding last, when do you have to be out by. Which hide should I book for...
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    Cameras that can handle non cpu lenses and scopes

    I have recently bought a Nikon D7000, have been using it with my SW ED80 setup with dandelion chipped adapters. Shooting just prime the chips give me metering and focus confirmation with 'focus trap' shutter release, same as my D90. Under certain conditions I also get focus trap with a Kenko pro...
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    Lens calibration

    Have been looking around the internet for various ways to calibrate lens/camera combos. Adobe do a free lens profiler tool that is compatable with Photoshop CS5 (unfortunately this no bucks tool needs big bucks software), seems a perfect way to iron out anomalies of each lens - TC combo with...
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    Gibralter point lincs uk

    Is this a wheatear of some sort ?, very long shot (100 yards).
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    DOI HQ7 conversion

    Here is my first attempt at converting a DOI HQ7 2x TC. The lens cell is superglued into a bayonet end ext tube for Nikon AF, The bayonet also has the EMF chip glued on - later I can programme it for the focal length and equivelant F Stop. Note also the doi came with a neat little hard case...
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    Build your own ?

    I wonder how easy it would be to build your own scope. The design does seem quite simple, a tube, the objective glass and the focuser. 2 of these components can be bought 'off the shelf' as it were (optics, focuser) Or perhaps if you could have some extension on the ED80's tube, as I feel there...
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