john,see avtar thingy, it must be the one that brushed my ear on the way,picture has faults but i,ve put in on a disc in case the computer blows,

cheers geoff

WERE ALL THE SAME I TOOK 250 SHOTS TO GET THE ONE ON MY AVATAR-ITS NOT ALL PLAIN SAILING WITH A DSLR

had dabble at the sand martins again this morning as they decied to fly low today got one shot i like the other 40 just clear sky and more than half an hour of press delete/press delete,good news is i,m getting paid while i delete.

cheers geoff

hi geoff-as you say dslr probably best-like the avatar of mine-the sand martin-that was taken at 1x1000 of a second,ive found most none slr cameras have a shutter lag of at least 1/2 second that means the sand martin would have been 20 yards out of shot when the camera took the shot,if you pressed the shutter when the bird was in frame!!so like you said probably stay as i am-cheers for the reply anyway

john ,hang to your dslr ,most of my good shots have of very confiding fairly close subjects and when push comes to shove i, e the peregrines on the hotels i was left with 'record shots' untill one decied to come into range of my camera ,even then(100yrds)the best shots were taken from the tripod on full mag and digital assit with a 2snd timer
set,its surprising how long that is.i.ve had look at some yours in the gallery and i,m quite sure i,ll end up with dslr if the funds ever allow it.but for £150 i,m still chuffed with my camera.

keep on klickin geoff

hi geoff-makes me wonder sometimes that is it worth these days kep carrying the dslr with long lens when i can buy a camera that fits in mi pocket,with up to 18 x optical zoom (the new olympus)when you get shots like your skylarkid be proud of that with my nikon and 300 lenscheers john

Checked the gallery. Excellent pics
It's going on my christmas list. My digiscope pics are very hit and miss.

Cheers Dean.

dean,10xoptical which is super then 15 digital in various modes ,see my skylark and woodpecker in the gallery to see what you can do easily as point and press ,then look my actavar of the peregrine as i stretch the camers to it,s
outer limits,that bird was a long long way off but still good enough for my records,

cheers geoff

Hi Geoff
Is this camera one of those "super compacts" with mega optical zoom, about 12x or even more?
Thinking of getting one of these.

Cheers Dean.

i,ve recently purchased a new camera and very pleased with it i am,it,s an olymus sp-51ouz bellting thinghy all whistle,bangs and menus ,got some nice photos and a lot of digital dust to get rid of (you slr chaps can now say i told you so)but if you,ve got a christmas list pop it on it geoff,unoffical review p s somthing close u,ll do it ,but check me sand marten