Hi Birders!
Called me roch, just like in rock.
Now I'm living ini Java island, Indonesia. It was a scuba diving trip to West Papua that lead me to birding, yes the bird of paradise . As I have passion in photography including underwater, my first response to birding was getting a Nikon P900 for still and FZ2500 for video. Then I learned it fast, and get D7200, D7500 and D750 with mainly Nikon 200-500mm + TC1.5. I'm giving up the P900 to local birding community for documenting the bird in their area of conservation. But then I think bird video is also good, now I'm also running Sony A7s III with 200-600 + TC 2.0 lens.
It's an outstanding rig until I realized I need more reach in some cases e.g. shore bird. So ... I'm adding my journey with optics and digiscoping
... my sandbox is a Vanguard Endeavour 65 and Nikon Pro-staff 3s ... now I know their limits and they giving me some learning and baseline. Time to go alpha ... but then I could not resist the portability of Nikon Fieldscope 50ED + EP 27x wide. So, it's in my inventory now. Still, I'm looking for best time for a TSN-99a (looks we have a good price at SG's Prominar office) or an ATS scope (some discount available at OpticTrade). Recently, I also upgrading the bin to Kowa BD II, but I don't think that would be satisfactory enough.
I mostly do birding in all Indonesia (West, Wallace's and East), Thailand (mostly for migratory raptors and their nice National Parks), Malaysia. Once birding in East Africa and plan for Latam next year.
I found this forum fast tracking my learning in birding. So thank you all!
Called me roch, just like in rock.
Now I'm living ini Java island, Indonesia. It was a scuba diving trip to West Papua that lead me to birding, yes the bird of paradise . As I have passion in photography including underwater, my first response to birding was getting a Nikon P900 for still and FZ2500 for video. Then I learned it fast, and get D7200, D7500 and D750 with mainly Nikon 200-500mm + TC1.5. I'm giving up the P900 to local birding community for documenting the bird in their area of conservation. But then I think bird video is also good, now I'm also running Sony A7s III with 200-600 + TC 2.0 lens.
It's an outstanding rig until I realized I need more reach in some cases e.g. shore bird. So ... I'm adding my journey with optics and digiscoping
... my sandbox is a Vanguard Endeavour 65 and Nikon Pro-staff 3s ... now I know their limits and they giving me some learning and baseline. Time to go alpha ... but then I could not resist the portability of Nikon Fieldscope 50ED + EP 27x wide. So, it's in my inventory now. Still, I'm looking for best time for a TSN-99a (looks we have a good price at SG's Prominar office) or an ATS scope (some discount available at OpticTrade). Recently, I also upgrading the bin to Kowa BD II, but I don't think that would be satisfactory enough. I mostly do birding in all Indonesia (West, Wallace's and East), Thailand (mostly for migratory raptors and their nice National Parks), Malaysia. Once birding in East Africa and plan for Latam next year.
I found this forum fast tracking my learning in birding. So thank you all!
