The lengths some will go to
I am impressed with the size of your extension !
As someone who both lives high and lives high in the path of the NWs, I can tell you that by far the strongest winds were in the middle of the night, Thurs-Fri. My building was occasionally shuddering. I would assume, therefore, that the best stuff went through ahead of and with this. When it’s storm force, it vibrates continuously.
This reminds me, Stuart: thanks for the kind comments re the impressive length of my camera lens. The difference between the woeful FZ45/100 and the FZ150 is that the latter now actually does the trick once more- as did the earlier FZs. I haven’t had a chance to explore many of its facets, but the image from
#13379 tells its own story, in respect of image quality. What I omitted to mention was that this is one of a series in ‘burst’ mode. (No ! bits of the camera didn’t go everywhere.)
Here is another of the same pic, cropped and edited- but
not sharpened.
You don’t need a tele-converter, when you have a 5MB pic at 37.5x OPTICAL- or even 46.9x at 3MB. I last used my 1.7x tele-converter with my FZ50 (which ‘began’ at 12x), outrageously stolen at a Spanish airport. With the improved (and increased) zooms of the FZ18 and 38, there wasn’t the need.
James MacC told me he’d seen Lesser Spots there several times, but not since the 80s, I believe. He, too, was thwarted by the Yellow-browed yesterday.
I had a short watch from the S’ham shelter late a’noon. Some hardy souls had been there all day (!), but don’t yet seem to have RBA’d their totals. Perhaps they were too busy reading a Wessex realist novel. They had quite a few Poms, several Sooties and there was a Sab candidate. (No ! not the Swedish car.)