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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KenM" data-source="post: 3507980" data-attributes="member: 57880">In praise of Bridge cameras!Mick, reminds me of an hours train ride (couple of years ago now) through rural Hungary, straight railway line through plains, either side of which was an intermittent tall tree/short hedge parallel. Hanging out of said sliding window and espying "two separated" brown blobs in the field at almost 9.0'clock to my "standing up..rocking" position in the guards van (train doing a good 50-60mph).Much in the manner of the way that press photographers attempt a shot with camera held high above the head firing blindly into the prison van window, hoping to get an image of the subject. I pressed the "film record" button aiming at the "blob" point, and compensating for the moving train (panning) to the said spot, hoping that there might be a break in the hedgerow for me to image. Further to this, I took lots more images of Shrikes,Turtle Doves,Storks etc before pulling into the terminus. It was much later that evening (having forgot about the film clip) when I suddenly remembered....to my total surprise two Great Bustards in the field clearly imaged....a Life Tick! I would certainly (in all probability) have been unable to record those Bustards through bins only. I got about 4 frames (at 25 fps) barely an eye-blink!I never leave home without it. :t:</blockquote>