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Telephoto Questions and Answers
WHAT IS A TELPEHOTO LENS? A telephoto lens has a focal length, or reach, which allows you to photograph a distant subject, magnify it and make it fill more of your frame. Generally, a telephoto lens with a focal length of around 70mm to 200mm is considered a [...]
Live Baiting of Kingfishers for Photography
Photographs of Common Kingfishers are high on the bucket-list of many photographers interested in wildlife. There are commercial wildlife hides which specialise in kingfisher photography and can virtually guarantee spectacular photographs. The standards have been set, and they are very high indeed. Unfortunately, these spectacular photographs come about using [...]
Hands-on with the Fujinon XF200mm f/2
INTRODUCTION Back in July, Fujifilm formerly announced their much anticipated 200mm f/2 telephoto lens. I'm very grateful to the lovely people at Fujifilm UK for giving me a chance to use a pre-production model of this lens and present my basic findings and opinions just before it leaves the [...]
Fujifilm 200mm f/2
Fujifilm officially launched their much anticipated 200mm f/2 lens a few days ago. It was no great secret having been included on their publically available ‘Lens Roadmap’ for sometime now. The lens will come with a newly designed 1.4x teleconverter and I am not sure of the details around any [...]
Top 10!
Less than a year after my website and blog were included in a 'Top 100 Wildlife Photography Blogs and Websites' listing, I'm very pleased to see I have also been included in a Top 10 for the UK at number 6. So, THANK YOU to everybody who reads my [...]
Don’t Mind Me….
...I'M JUST PASSING THROUGH! Atlantic puffin – 'low profile walk', Fujifilm X-H1 & 100-400mm lens. I’m always keen to stress the importance of how fieldcraft is as important as knowing how to use a camera or understanding the basic principles of photography. Even some basic knowledge about a [...]
African Photography Safaris – Recommended Reading
A tailor-made photographic safari in a place so rich and diverse in wildlife is an incredible experience for anybody interested in wildlife photography. The sheer volume of species we see and photograph every day always takes the uninitiated by surprise and how close we can get to them, well... that [...]
My Fujifilm Journey (so far), the X-T2 & X-H1
Towards the end of 2017 I bought a Fujifilm X-T2 and 18-55mm ‘kit’ lens as a replacement for my increasingly unreliable Nikon 28-70 f/2.8. It’s not the obvious alternative, nor is it absolutely comparable. I’m not going to bore anybody with my full detailed reasoning, other than saying I [...]
Top 100!
A quick blog post to say THANK YOU to everybody who reads my blog (which I admit, isn't updated as regularly as it should be) or follows me on my Twitter and Instagram feeds or my Facebook page. My website has been included in a 'Top 100 Wildlife Photography Blogs [...]
The Frames per Second Advantage
A camera with a rapid burst rate is a great advantage when photographing wildlife, especially if you're looking to capture action and behaviour. The best of the drama in wildlife action usually happens in fractions of a second. The moment a bird's wing or beak is open at its [...]
