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[rob_x2004]

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[Guest suilvenman]

Very impressive sharpness, colour and contrast, Rob. Are these with the FZ?

 

Cheers, Ken.

[rob_x2004]

I cant quite remember Ken. Either the M9(?) or the $400 FZ hand held at 18x (480mmequiv) optical zoom set to red icon auto everything on the idiots dial. Normally I would post process a little bit, and desaturate a frag for a more mature look. Dont get the wrong impression, these were quick grab panic shots over thirty seconds through a crack out the door over the balcony way into the trees at a bird that is very rare sight in my neck of the woods. And that is how they came out. Seems ok.

[vdb]

Very cool bird...male Cooper's Hawk?

[stuny]

Rob -

 

Excellent. Please ID the bird for us. The first looks almost evil.

[Guest suilvenman]

That not M9 gets more impressive with every shot I see taken by it.

 

Cheers, Ken.

[rob_x2004]

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Believe it is a female Crested Hawk Aviceda subcristata. Not being a bird guy I didnt think to look up what it was before I posted:rolleyes:.

I dudded one image when the AF picked up a foreground tree. Unfortunatly MF isnt available in the auto everything mode, understandably.

In MF you have a button on the top plate just behind the shutter release which you blip to outo focus on a point. I two finger blip away with the index then release the shutter with the second. Using the joystick to electronically MF is nonsense. The camera is layed out in a manner that just works in every regard and can be used intuitively.

Not great images but thats my fault, and for handheld equivalent of 486mm lens or whatever it is, its a dynamite little hack around sub five hundred buck camera.

[rob_x2004]

Ps ... To give you an idea the hawk is about fifty feet, and the backround the electical sub box is across the street and two houses up the road, the garden behind it three houses up the road.

[elansprint72]

You'll never get a decent snap out of that toy camera, and it's not a real Leica.

[elansprint72]

.......In MF you have a button on the top plate just behind the shutter release which you blip to outo focus on a point. I two finger blip away with the index then release the shutter with the second. Using the joystick to electronically MF is nonsense. The camera is layed out in a manner that just works in every regard and can be used intuitively.

Not great images but thats my fault, and for handheld equivalent of 486mm lens or whatever it is, its a dynamite little hack around sub five hundred buck camera.

 

I think the MF is the one thing on the V-Lux/FZ that I don't like, the ring on the lens just goes round and round, unlike the D2 which has a "proper" conventional focus ring. I tend to use the spot-focus and the just use the auto-focus, it's pretty quick and pretty accurate.

 

The shot of the bird peeping out is really good.

[rob_x2004]

Mine isnt as xpensive as yours I dont have that option. Its got the wombat trail on hte LCD for anyone stupid enough to tool around with the joytick furrowing the yellow brick road, or the focus button on the top plate next to the AF/AFmacro/MF selector button.

About the only thing I think could be improved is the location of the pop up flash button which is up beside the EVF and you have to take the camera away from your eye to get a finger to it, and it would be nice if the EVF was a little further outboard to the left.

Now if there was a serious dollar high spec version of the camera .... Ehhh, it would probably be on the gunsight of the eurofighter or a rocket propelled or something and we couldnt have it anyway.