Gear Panasonic Lumix GX-85

Lumix GX-85 Extended Tele Conversion

One of the “bonus features” available on the Panasonic Lumix GX-85 (and probably on many other Panasonic mirrorless cameras) is the ability to digitally “extend” the focal length of the lens in use to allow for greater magnification of your subject with out a huge loss of detail. The image below is taken from the GX-85 manual and lays out the options. It is important to note that this function is NOT available when you are shooting RAW format images. To demonstrate the effect this function has in an actual shooting situation I offer the three images below all taken…

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Gear Panasonic Lumix GX-85 Process Software

Pushing the Limits of the GX-85

As I have stated before in this blog, I am not your normal nature photographer. When it comes to bird photography this is especially true. I don’t stake out areas or otherwise stalk birds to get my shots. Rather, I walk a set route as close to daily as circumstances allow and shoot what comes my way. Nor do I lug around a mammoth 500mm lens capable of seeing a given bird’s teeth. Since I am usually also walking my dog, thus giving me only one hand with which to shoot, I have to travel light. This need for portability…

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Sightings
April 27, 2020

April 27, 2020

Started out at 7:45 this AM in 50+ degree heat. Very calm and if there was a cloud in the sky I did not see it. What was in the sky was thousands of annoying insects who were for some reason being ignored by the Swallows. Flowers are starting to make an appearance along with the bugs – I guess they both need each other. Pictured above is some variety or other of Milkvetch. The “excitement” today came in the addition of a new bird to my collection of sightings. The little guy shown below is, I believe, a Yellow-rumped…

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