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.
Well, not ALL RDS BIFs are successful...This and the following 2 pics are examples of what happens when your subject is too close--the calibration is off. These pics are called "KFCs" as body parts, usually wings, are "cut off". No Red-tail was harmed in the taking of these pics... :o)
The Bald Eagle pair at Marine Drive on Dungeness Bay near Sequim on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington, taken January 13, 2006.
Sharp-Shinned Hawk at Sequim, WA, January 2006.
These American Wigeons look like jets banking in close formation...Taken near Dungeness Nat'l Wildlife Refuge in Washington State That's Dungeness Lighthouse in the background.
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