so good morning YouTube and welcome to another video this morning I'm here at Rainton Meadows
Nature Reserve which isn't too far from home and we're going to have a go at bird photography
using the fz82 bridge camera. Now I've been here before using my Nikon
with the 200mm lens and I got some fairly decent shots I was very happy with apart from the fact
that the reach wasn't fantastic so you couldn't get really close on the birds
so I tried again with the mirror lens which I put a link to the video they were okay
um compromised by the construction of the mirror lens obviously so they need a bit of work
and this time I thought I'll bring the bridge camera and see if we can use that for bird
photography now the disadvantage with that camera is it doesn't work in the same way as a dslr works
it's not going to be quite as quick and taking the shots
I'm probably going to have to use the Panasonic App so I can stand further away
from the camera and that might actually help because the birds won't see me as a threat
so we'll get set up when they get to the location shortly
and we'll see how many of our little feathered friends are out today and wanting something to eat
so what I've got got the camera set up put some bait on the uh on the feeder there some bird seed
got the camera facing the feeder I'm using the remote app on the phone to see if we
can get some shots hopefully we won't have to wait too long before the birds turn up
so yeah a bit of mixed success using the app on the phone because what tends to happen is by the
time you've pressed the button and the wi-fi then connects the camera and then tells the shutter to
release the bird has taken the food from the from the feeder and uh it's gone back into the trees
with it they're uh still quite flighty little birds okay even though they're used to people
feeding them it's not been fantastic to take photographs using the app. I'm gonna persevere
though and use just the shutter button I'll just have to be quite still and not scare them off.
It's an absolutely glorious morning it's getting quite busy now here
I've been shooting a lot of the small birds and as well as that a lot of the swans and waterfowl
on the lake the FZ82 has done pretty well I think it's been quite difficult sometimes to
make it focus as i want to and unlike with a dslr where you'd be able to just twist
the lens to focus of course this is on a little rocker switch so it's backwards and
forwards and auto focus tends to hunt quite a lot and uh manual focus isn't as quick
as you'd expect so let me show you the shots I've got so far I hope you enjoy them
so I hope you can see behind me that's Joe's Pond the focus for today's little vlog I've
really enjoyed the photography here there's been some little opportunities for landscape
photography as well so I'll show you those images now and I'll catch you in the next one bye for now