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  1. YuShan

    Shots of birds, taken with your pocket camera

    A few more! :D. All photos with Lumix TZ70 pocket camera: Tit-like Dacnis, while camping in Cajas NP, Ecuador Inca Jay hunting for moths in the early morning near San Isidro, Ecuador Sunbittern, Mindo, Ecuador Ecuadorian Hillstar near my tent, while camping at ~4100m elevation in...
  2. YuShan

    Shots of birds, taken with your pocket camera

    After a Masked Flowerpiercer topic somewhere else on this forum, I couldn't resist posting this pocket camera shot (Lumix TZ70) I made in Ecuador. Lucky shot, because most of the time these small birds are too fast for pocket camera shots.
  3. YuShan

    Shots of birds, taken with your pocket camera

    Yes that makes sense because 1) they have larger objective lenses and are therefore not limited by diffraction like pocket cameras with super zoon are, and 2) their pixels are larger, so they already have more dynamic range/ less noise and therefore need less noise reduction (=loss of detail) to...
  4. YuShan

    Shots of birds, taken with your pocket camera

    This was the day I decided I needed a superzoom on my next camera! Snowy Owl on my Kungsleden backpack in Sweden, with Canon Powershot S95 (10Mp, 3x zoom) Also: Arctic Fox! (on the same trek)
  5. YuShan

    Shots of birds, taken with your pocket camera

    Btw, this was taken with a Pentax Optio S (3.2Mp - tiny, 115 grams camera). But arguably very close up :D Rufous-backed Dwarf Kingfisher, Sabah, Malaysia
  6. YuShan

    Shots of birds, taken with your pocket camera

    3.2 MP is perhaps a bit low, but I prefer low pixel count in pocket cameras. They are less noisy, so images need less processing by the camera. The old pocket camera I'm using now is 12 Mp which is low by today's standard, but in terms of sensor I preferred my previous camera that had 10 Mp (but...
  7. YuShan

    Shots of birds, taken with your pocket camera

    One of the biggest problems with pocket camera is that it often focuses on the background instead of the (small) bird on the foreground. Success rate is considerably higher when the background is empty. Blue-naped Parrot, Philippines
  8. YuShan

    Shots of birds, taken with your pocket camera

    You can get reasonably good pictures with a pocket camera with superzoom, as long as there is enough light and the object isn't moving too much. Pictures below with Lumix TZ70.
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