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Kowloon Park Peacock
« on: Jul 8th, 2006, 8:49am » |
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June 2006
Kowloon park
Digiscoped using Nikon 8400 camera and Swarovski ATS 80HD scope, 20-60x eyepiece and DCA adaptor - Manual focus
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Re: Kowloon Park Peacock
« Reply #1 on: Jul 8th, 2006, 10:08pm » |
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Sharp and clear!
By the way, you seem to be fond of this peacock.
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Re: Kowloon Park Peacock
« Reply #2 on: Jul 8th, 2006, 10:22pm » |
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on Jul 8th, 2006, 8:49am, Bob Thompson wrote:
Digiscoped using 8400 and Swarovski ATS 80HD scope, 20-60x eyepiece and DCA adaptor - Manual focus
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Dear Bob,
Nice and sharp photo! Could you tell what is 8400? I am soucing a camera for digiscoping but I seem couldn't find any 8400 model in the camera shop today. Thanks.
Etta 
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Re: Kowloon Park Peacock
« Reply #3 on: Jul 8th, 2006, 11:02pm » |
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Etta, the Nikon 8400 is an out of date model but is very suitable for digiscoping with a Swarovski scope. A nikon adaptor tube couples directly to the Swarovski DCA camera adaptor. The Nikon 8400 is a 8 megapixel camera and is able to achieve reasonably good results. The shot of the Peacock is from about 30 metres away
Little Dolphin, with the unpredicable weather lately, Kowloon Park is an ideal birdwatching area, as you are able to quickly reach shelter from the rain.
Yes the Peacock with all its beautiful colors makes an ideal photographers model. I noted even our number 1 photographer KK Hui has recently been shooting the peacock
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Re: Kowloon Park Peacock
« Reply #4 on: Jul 8th, 2006, 11:02pm » |
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Nikon Coolpix 8400
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Re: Kowloon Park Peacock
« Reply #5 on: Jul 9th, 2006, 7:11am » |
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Etta,
Before you spend ANY money on a camera, you must check out this mans website, the photos are outstanding for the equipment he uses
http://koti.welho.com/tlaurins/phonescoping/
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Re: Kowloon Park Peacock
« Reply #6 on: Jul 9th, 2006, 10:13am » |
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on Jul 9th, 2006, 7:11am, Bob Thompson wrote:| Before you spend ANY money on a camera, you must check out this mans website, the photos are outstanding for the equipment he uses |
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Wow. 
I'm not really convinced the photos were shot by that "camera". 
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Re: Kowloon Park Peacock
« Reply #7 on: Jul 9th, 2006, 10:43am » |
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Really nice shot............ digiscoping is definitely reaching new levels
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Re: Kowloon Park Peacock
« Reply #8 on: Jul 9th, 2006, 11:19am » |
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But Guy, I cant get flying wasps as you can. Those flying shot on www.lamma.com.hk are extrodinary
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Re: Kowloon Park Peacock
« Reply #9 on: Jul 9th, 2006, 3:14pm » |
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Thank you Bob and Isaac for all the informations.
on Jul 9th, 2006, 7:11am, Bob Thompson wrote:
This is amazing! The photo quality is really out of my imagination!!
Actually, I have a habit that I do not use an adaptor to fix my camera on the scope for my easy observation and take site photos and close up shots as flexible as I need. Therefore I stick with the CP995 (internal zoom?) which I couldn't find any better substitute in the market alike in recent year. But now, my 995 is getting out of order...
Now, I switch to reserch the snapshot photo quality of those handy vedio cameras, maybe can suit my need. Any advise?
I think below is the best quality of my CP995+Carl Zeiss diascope 85T that I could manage. 
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Re: Kowloon Park Peacock
« Reply #10 on: Jul 9th, 2006, 3:19pm » |
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on Jul 9th, 2006, 11:19am, Bob Thompson wrote:| But Guy, I cant get flying wasps as you can. Those flying shot on www.lamma.com.hk are extrodinary |
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It's eye catching indeed. 
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Re: Kowloon Park Peacock
« Reply #11 on: Jul 9th, 2006, 7:42pm » |
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Etta,
There nothing wrong with the quality of your shot, on monitor it looks a little light and if you have the software maybe you could slightly blur the background so it is not as busy.
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Re: Kowloon Park Peacock
« Reply #12 on: Jul 10th, 2006, 1:37pm » |
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on Jul 9th, 2006, 7:42pm, Bob Thompson wrote:Etta,
There nothing wrong with the quality of your shot, on monitor it looks a little light and if you have the software maybe you could slightly blur the background so it is not as busy.
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Dear Bob,
Thanks for the guiding, I am going to take a try!
Etta
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Re: Kowloon Park Peacock
« Reply #13 on: Jul 10th, 2006, 4:56pm » |
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Etta,
Played with your image a bit in PS. Here is a quick and dirty job of it. See if it works for you ...
What was done: Cropped vertically, applied Gaussian Blur to background, slight sharpened. That's it!
KK Hui FRPS
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Re: Kowloon Park Peacock
« Reply #14 on: Jul 10th, 2006, 6:27pm » |
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KK, I think Etta will be thrilled with the result, I would be. Considering you are only working from her relatively lo-res web posting, it definetly shows what you can do in Photoshop, with so knowledge.
Would you consider running a short course on Photoshop techniques, if I remember rightly you held an evening lecture a year or so ago, but that was too short. I would be prepared to pay to learn some of your post shooting techniques
Bob
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