Jorvik weekend - Birds of Prey

Mar 09, 2011 12:44


Another year, another trip up to York for the annual Yorvik Viking weekend. No photogenic snow this year, and no buying of new cameras either. And as usual, I mostly got pictures of the birds of prey show. It was the same


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thatmakesmemad March 9 2011, 12:44:33 UTC
I went to Attenborough Reserve on Sunday and started looking at cameras afterwards as even with a x18 zoom on my 8mp camera the birds on the sand banks in the middle of the pool were too far away. Unfortunately investigation suggested that the Panasonic Lumix FZ38 was the best option as that's also x18. The HS10 is too slow and poor in low light, the FZ45 is considered poor value for money ho hum. Makes a simple upgrade to the 14mp version of my current camera look feasible.

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eeymsmo March 9 2011, 12:59:49 UTC
x14 what though? Normal vision is usually thought of as a 50mm lens on a full 35mm frame, so x14 on that would be a 700mm lens which would be expensive (~£8-10k). But compact manufacturs tend to just divide the longest length by the smallest and use that. And is that x18 optical?

Tripod and release cable is probably the best thing to upgrade cheaply/quickly. Should still be able to crop something good out of that

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thatmakesmemad March 9 2011, 14:34:26 UTC
it's a cheap bridge camera. Fuji Finepix S8000FD. So that's purely optical.
Not touching SLR as the lens would cost as much as the camera hence looking at more expensive Bridge Cameras. The HS10 can take different lenses like an SLR so more of a Hybrid but otherwise they are all built in jobs.

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eeymsmo March 9 2011, 15:02:03 UTC
This one? - http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/FujiFilm/fuji_finepixs8000fd.asp

It looks like dpreview have already converted to 35mm equivalent focal lengths - 486mm. It always catches people that the camera manufacturers are talking about the ratio between wide and long when they talk about 'zoom', not actual real 'magnification' like binocular/telescope manufactures do. Look at the actual focal length

So the HS10 has twice as much 'zoom' as your current one, but yep, the aperture is tiny so there's a big reduction in light. And unfortunately you can't compensate by bumping ISO as the sensor's so small/dense that'll get too noisy. an't see anything about swappable lenses though?

Most of them are going to be the same ability at that price point ("ye cannae change the laws of physics").

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eeymsmo March 9 2011, 13:54:56 UTC
Thanks. It was a good show, they use a reasonably small arena and fly sensible birds so they're pretty close at times.

Sharlotte's just booked us a day of falconry through Groupon, so looking forward to that. And I expect the cameras will head out for it as well :).

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