Budget! Budget! Budget!!
Interested in the bird photography but not capable of investing in expensive equipment like prime lens and DSLR camera …
Here come other choice for birding..Ultra zoom PnS will make you dream come true
Brown Shrike http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff238/bklimbk/P1420084.jpg
You did a super job. I’ve seen others do excellent work with the Panasonic PZ-18 you used. Are you able to do flight photos with that camera? My son uses a Canon S3 IS and is able to.
Very well presented and some outstanding subject matter, BK. I'd say the greens in the backgounrd are touch over saturated for my tastes but the burds themselves are outstanding.
morris wrote:
You did a super job. I’ve seen others do excellent work with the Panasonic PZ-18 you used. Are you able to do flight photos with that camera? My son uses a Canon S3 IS and is able to.
Mr Zoom wrote:
Very well presented and some outstanding subject matter, BK. I'd say the greens in the background are touch over saturated for my tastes but the birds themselves are outstanding.
My old sony DSC- H-9 took great burd images, with a 563mm equivalent zoom, and good performance up to ISO400, I loved it. I hate sony's DSLR's though. everything else made by them is excellent though.
kane513 wrote:
My old sony DSC- H-9 took great burd images, with a 563mm equivalent zoom, and good performance up to ISO400, I loved it. I hate sony's DSLR's though. everything else made by them is excellent though.
Thanks kane513,
Oriental Magpie-Robin http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff238/bklimbk/P1420201.jpg
I used to have an ultrazoom fixed-lens digicam myself, BK --- well, quite a few, in fact -- the Panasonic FZ10, FZ20, and two FZ30s. What I really liked about them was that they were portable, which really helped when I went hiking/backpacking. The IQ wasn't bad, either -- unless you wanted to shoot in ISOs higher than 200. And that's the main reason why I went DSLR, as I print my images out to 13 x 19 for display where I work. I see you have the FZ18, which is a fine ultrazoom. These are some fine bird shots you've got. And though I've Gone Big with the 500 f/4, I do sometimes hanker for not carrying 10 pounds of camera equipment around my neck Keep up the good "Fluzi" work!
Great pics. I'm in the same boat. I sold my DSLR and can't afford another one yet. I use the pany fz-28 and i'm very happy with the image quality. I even bump down to 7mp to get 577mm of zoom and still the iq is great.
I do really miss my 400mm F5.6L
Here is a Pine Siskin I took this weekend. 577mm 7mp, ISO 100, ss 1/160th. maybe a tad underexposed.
Keep up the good "Fluzi" work!