I've owned the Panasonic Lumix line of ultrazoom cameras --- FZ10,'20 and '30 --- since January 2004 and with the Leica lens, image stabilization and 12x optical zoom (out to approximately 420mm) I've learned to appreciate birds as I never had with my previous cameras. My interest became an obsession after my recent (October 2005) purchase of a Red-Dot Sight, a device usually found on guns to track targets. I now "hunt" and "shoot" birds with the RDS mounted on my current FZ30's flash hot shoe using an Xtend-a-Sight.
These initial attempts using the RDS were taken at Machado Lake in suburban Los Angeles' Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park. This and the following Mallard shot are sequential using the FZ30's high burst mode at 3 frames per second. While the image is somewhat soft, suffice to say that without the RDS I couldn't have made the shot at all as it was flying too fast.
These initial attempts using the RDS were taken at Machado Lake in suburban Los Angeles' Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park. This and the following Mallard shot are sequential using the FZ30's high burst mode at 3 frames per second. While the image is somewhat soft, suffice to say that without the RDS I couldn't have made the shot at all as it was flying too fast.
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