Last weekend I popped into Dungeness for the day. When at the RSPB reserve I spotted a couple of black necked grebes not to far from the hide. So I used my Pentax Q and 300mm lens set up to record at an effective 1700mm. Sadly my tripod head was out of action at the…
I heard today that there was a red backed shrike locally, but I could not go anywhere till 5.30pm. Luckily my friend Dave was available to show me where it was and took me to see it. The light was awful at 6.45pm when it eventually showed for us, the sort of conditions where having…
I’ve been playing with my Pentax WG-2 compact a bit recently, mainly to try get some underwater footage, but it also has a slow motion mode on the video. The resolution is only 640×480, but it slows things down my 4 times. I tried it out on this crow as it took off, and its…