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Photographic equipment My first SLR
was a Zenith purchased in 1973 with a 50mm lens. As the back sprung
open with regularity, this was usually held closed with insulation
tape. First bird photographs were understandably small! A Soligor 350mm
5.6 lens followed before I upgraded to a Fujica SLR. In the early 1980s, two Nikon F301 bodies, Tokina 28-70 and 70-210 lenses and a Sigma 400 5.6 APO became the mainstay of my photography for the next 16 years. I used mainly Kodachrome 64 film and it cost a fortune. Best pictures were always of birds taken abroad but towards the latter part of the period that I was using this set up I seldom took the camera out in the UK as birds just did not seem to be tame enough and film became too expensive to waste on dots. In October 2001 the move to digi-scoping came about when I ended up by default with my mainstay digi-scoping tool the Coolpix 880. I used this with my old Swarovski 80mm scope and zoom eyepiece before changing that for the new ATS65 and zoom then the ATS80HD and zoom. The latter combination remains my digi-scoping set-up to date; no adaptor, just hand-held 880 to the scope. In November 2004, seeing the superb results of some other bird photographers, I made the plunge and bought a digital SLR, the Canon EOS300D and a Canon 100-400EF lens with image stabiliser. I changed the 300D for a EOS20D in February 2005 because of the much faster operation of the 20D and the larger image sizes. I mainly use the latter combination hand held for the sheer versatility of being able to get onto moving birds quicker. Action shots have always been an aspiration of mine and the latter combination of DSLR and lens seems to be producing the goods.
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