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2 from this sunny weekend.

Celestron 80ed
Olympus E-3

Long tailed tit
iso 250
1/400s

Starling (the first for the season! (one of two) )
iso 250
1/200s

@tbc
great ones you've got there. The light on the thrush is quite heavenly. and at 1/30s...
 
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Hi Cridl

Nice moon-shot, with a good exposure and contrast, moon is often printed too harsh.

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tbc

Glad to see you were able to upload in the end, I am also using Internet Explorer and cannot upload to this forum...the reply area does not even show the `manage attachments` button on my screen. I found that I can however upload photos to my `user gallery`.

liked the bokeh on your drongo shot.

Tom
 
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One from today

Wood Pigeon
Camera : Canon 450D
Scope : 600mm Skywatcher 80ED
2.5X telenegative from Mitsuki 100-200mm lens
ISO800
1/160s
75mm extension in scope
Image uncropped
Range 10m (33 feet)
 

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Nice moon-shot, with a good exposure and contrast, moon is often printed too harsh.

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tbc

Glad to see you were able to upload in the end, I am also using Internet Explorer and cannot upload to this forum...the reply area does not even show the `manage attachments` button on my screen. I found that I can however upload photos to my `user gallery`.

liked the bokeh on your drongo shot.

Tom

Hi Tom, thanks. I think you might as well forsake IE and jump ship to other browser.

tbc
 
One from today

Wood Pigeon
Camera : Canon 450D
Scope : 600mm Skywatcher 80ED
2.5X telenegative from Mitsuki 100-200mm lens
ISO800
1/160s
75mm extension in scope
Image uncropped
Range 10m (33 feet)

Paul,

Your image is really detailed and sharp. Wonder if you would consider setting up an online business selling your telenagatives that you bidded, stripped and assembled? I would love to get hold of one.

tbc
 
Excellent images on here.

tbc Firefox is the way to go. I used to use Google Chrome for picture download speed, but Firefox seems better now, faster. My wife still uses IE.;)

Paul I noticed the Pigeon eye pupil, it looks oblong, strange looking.
 
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Paul I noticed the Pigeon eye pupil, it looks oblong, strange looking.


Yeah, they are strange but they are like that in real life, all the ones I see over here have that bit of black that looks almost like it's leaked out of the pupil. Funny thing is when the male is displaying to the female, the pupils go like tiny little dots, shall have to get a photo of it one day as they look quite creepy.

tbc - the telenegs are really quite easy to mount. I don't tend to have anything that permanent, usually I just stick them in the 2" scope adapter as they are about the right size and there's hardly any side to side movement. A couple of the bigger ones I just stick in a macro tube and hold them in place with some blu-tac putty. That way I can just swap and change when I feel like it.

Got a really nice Canon 80-200mm teleneg today and shall post up some images tomorrow.

Paul.
 
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Funny thing is when the male is displaying to the female, the pupils go like tiny little dots, shall have to get a photo of it one day as they look quite creepy.

Paul.

Like this old fella here maybe ? Or maybe even more than that. I think there was a femme somewhere near
 

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Like this old fella here maybe ? Or maybe even more than that. I think there was a femme somewhere near

Yeah, it's a lot more than that, literally like only a couple of mm across. All you see is an almost completely pale green eye with a tiny black dot. It's mainly seen when they are getting ready to mate, the male will tip forward while cooing and fanning out the tail feathers and if he's lucky the female will let him on board. :-O

Paul.
 
Hi Paul, Thanks for the information. Where I live I would have to go to the nearest farm to see Pigeons, mostly at the top of their silos.
 
SW 120 ST 600mm f5
Pentax K200D
Monopod
IS off

Both birds - ISO 200 - 1/250th - Spot Meter - Centre point Focus
Woman - ISO 200 - 1/350th - Spot Meter - Centre point Focus
 

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Not a bird, but eating my birdseed ...

Nikon D90

Orion 80ED 600mm f/7.5 (chipped)

1/1000 sec, ISO 640

Cropped about 20% from left side, 10% from top
 

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One new and one from the archives

both uncropped

new
woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)
iso 250
1/500s

chaffinch
iso 100
1/320s
 
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A few from last weekend

A few more with the TL APO804.

All except the second with the kenko Pro300 1.4x at ISO500 1/1250 F/8.4.
The second was with the kenko Pro300 2x at ISO500 1/800 F/12.

The last is a 100% crop from the second photo.
 

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Some pictures

1. Numenius Arquata - Eurasian Curlew
1/800
ISO 200

2. Circus Aeruginosus - Western Marsh Harrier (female)
1/800
ISO 200

3. Saxicola Torquata - African Stonechat (male)
1/800
ISO 200

4. Vanellus Vanellus - Lapwing
1/800
ISO 200

5. Circus Aeruginosus - Western Marsh Harrier (female)
1/500
ISO 200
 

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Took this yesterday. A Crow showing partial leucism (lack of pigment).

Crow
Camera : Canon 450D
Scope : Skywatcher 80ED
ISO800
1/200s
Sunagor 100-200mm telenegative (1.5X on scope).
Image uncropped.
Range approx 30m (100 feet).
 

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Example showing how well low magnification telenegatives/TC's stack up together.

First image is just at 1.5X mag with Sunagor 100-200mm telenegative.

Second image is with Kenko Pro 1.4X TC, Sunagor 1.5X TN and Prinzflex 1.5X TN all stacked together.

Due to the gap between the two TN's the first one was probably providing around 1.6X or even 1.7X. Overall magnification would have been around 3.3X or nearly 2000mm not including crop factor.

Distance to cat was around 15 to 20m (50 - 65 feet).

Skywatcher 600mm 80ED
Canon 450D

1st image ISO 800 1/125sec
2nd image ISO 800 1/60sec

Both images are uncropped.

Dull and overcast.
 

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Example showing how well low magnification telenegatives/TC's stack up together.

First image is just at 1.5X mag with Sunagor 100-200mm telenegative.

Second image is with Kenko Pro 1.4X TC, Sunagor 1.5X TN and Prinzflex 1.5X TN all stacked together.

Due to the gap between the two TN's the first one was probably providing around 1.6X or even 1.7X. Overall magnification would have been around 3.3X or nearly 2000mm not including crop factor.

Distance to cat was around 15 to 20m (50 - 65 feet).

Skywatcher 600mm 80ED
Canon 450D

1st image ISO 800 1/125sec
2nd image ISO 800 1/60sec

Both images are uncropped.

Dull and overcast.

Boy, that is just amazing, Paul. That looks as sharp as what I might get sticking my Nikkor 50mm f1.8 right up in that cats face. Razor sharp and relatively inexpensive...what more could you ask for!

Rick
 
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