Double double toothed barbets?

I experimented a lot with a single lens and realized that the more time you spend on a single set of gears and get to know them intimately, the better the output you get from them. I was alway careful to stop down because the lens was definitely not as sharp as […]

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And then I invested in a wonderful, (relatively) compact and lightweight #nikon 80-400mm f4-5.6 which was an absolute joy compared to the 50-500mm. It is extremely sharp when stepped down though a tad slow to autofocus compared to what you get today and the […]

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Hmm. I remember watching a genghis khan movie in the 1990s… will need to look up both the book and the movie once again. I liked what I’ve seen and read about him so far. Will give this book a go this year (or perhaps the next given my “unread” section of my bookshelf is almost at full capacity:)

How close is this to the movie? The older one. I did not realize there were multiple movies made on him…

Very soon, I realized that if I want to shoot birds, I needed reach and so like an overexcited school kid, I went and bought the longest lens I could afford without doing any kind of research ;-)

This one is made with a sigma 50-500mm f/4-6.3 lens. Very quickly […]

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Didn’t know this was a thing. Is this automatic in ebird for all counties or is it special to orange county? Will list more seriously this year and see what happens.

How many of us kept it running just to see if it will explode?? ;-)
My Slackware desktop at that time just ploughed through that new year just fine …