Photography

[Farnorthsurfer]

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Now there’s a project to keep you busy

 

[Ghost]

Daisies and clouds on my one hour of freedom today.

 

[Gwyn]

 

[VanDamMan]

Playing with new lens ( hand held)

 

[Ghost]

@VanDamMan Lovely looking Goldfinch, wish I had them in my garden.

 

[VanDamMan]

@VanDamMan Lovely looking Goldfinch, wish I had them in my garden.

live in an urban area...so very lucky...my favourite visitor is the nut hatch and a family of dunnocks...brings a lot of joy to watch

 

[Paynewright]

We had a green woodpecker in the garden this week. We do seem to get an array of different birds and bats at dusk. We are only 200 meters from countryside in two directions.

 

[Kingsway]

 

[CAB]

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Get rid of the bugger, it'll ruin half your plants!

Great pic though

 

[Paynewright]

Rainbow Leaf Beetle - protected in the UK!

 

[Kingsway]

Rainbow Leaf Beetle - protected in the UK!

Not sure what the difference is but judging by the plant it’s on this is a Rosemary Beetle.

 

[CAB]

I read @Ghost 's original post the other day, got me thinking about my pictures. Last week, the second time at Longridge Fell, I dug out our old (2008!) Olympus u820, as it has a 5x telephoto. Today's photo is Shutlingsloe, the Cheshire Matterhorn, with 2-3x zoom. Not bad for a bit of ancient tech!

I had a Lumia 950, which I would still be using if it were not for Whatsapp, which still gives stunning image quality compared to most new smartphones. All my other pics here have been with my Sony XZ2 Compact, which I think has the best compromise between size (i.e. small) and image quality. Not up to the Lumia, but pretty good.

The Olympus compares quite well with the Sony when I did a landscapes comparison; it's only 8MP and a different (softer) colour balance, doesn't have the HDR colours but the Sony sharpens a little too much, as most phones seem to.

Anyone have a recomendation for an updated version of the Olympus? small and pocketable, but with decent telephoto.

 

[VanDamMan]

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I read @Ghost 's original post the other day, got me thinking about my pictures. Last week, the second time at Longridge Fell, I dug out our old (2008!) Olympus u820, as it has a 5x telephoto. Today's photo is Shutlingsloe, the Cheshire Matterhorn, with 2-3x zoom. Not bad for a bit of ancient tech!

I had a Lumia 950, which I would still be using if it were not for Whatsapp, which still gives stunning image quality compared to most new smartphones. All my other pics here have been with my Sony XZ2 Compact, which I think has the best compromise between size (i.e. small) and image quality. Not up to the Lumia, but pretty good.

The Olympus compares quite well with the Sony when I did a landscapes comparison; it's only 8MP and a different (softer) colour balance, doesn't have the HDR colours but the Sony sharpens a little too much, as most phones seem to.

Anyone have a recomendation for an updated version of the Olympus? small and pocketable, but with decent telephoto.

Hi @CAB ... I’m still using. Canon 550d but with new lenses..but have a look at Canon Powershot range very similar to your olympus
the more you pay the better the range and other tech stuff.....it’s the picture that says it all not the camera

ps giving your locations has helped me to find new places of interest to visit....keep it up

 

[Kingsway]

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I read @Ghost 's original post the other day, got me thinking about my pictures. Last week, the second time at Longridge Fell, I dug out our old (2008!) Olympus u820, as it has a 5x telephoto. Today's photo is Shutlingsloe, the Cheshire Matterhorn, with 2-3x zoom. Not bad for a bit of ancient tech!

I had a Lumia 950, which I would still be using if it were not for Whatsapp, which still gives stunning image quality compared to most new smartphones. All my other pics here have been with my Sony XZ2 Compact, which I think has the best compromise between size (i.e. small) and image quality. Not up to the Lumia, but pretty good.

The Olympus compares quite well with the Sony when I did a landscapes comparison; it's only 8MP and a different (softer) colour balance, doesn't have the HDR colours but the Sony sharpens a little too much, as most phones seem to.

Anyone have a recomendation for an updated version of the Olympus? small and pocketable, but with decent telephoto.

I’ve got a Panasonic Lumix TZ200 which took the Beetle photo above and also has a really good zoom....

 

[Radford1071s]

 

[Radford1071s]

This was us out at Langbank rise yesterday nice views down the clyde.

 

[Ghost]

This is a bee-fly, don’t know much about them, first year for me to see it in my garden.

 

[VanDamMan]

This is a bee-fly, don’t know much about them, first year for me to see it in my garden.
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that’s a cool macro picture

 

[Ghost]

that’s a cool macro picture

Thank you ..
Not perfect, just happy with what I got, just to identify it.

 

[Moodz]

Looking down the loch from the car park in Fort William last year