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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Sightings
March 30, 2020

March 30, 2020

Finally got out for a morning walk. Arriving at around 9:30 AM we got right on the trail. Not many people fishing today either in the fishing pond or the Arkansas river. No birds fishing either. I did manage to spot three Great Blue Heron’s sunning themselves in a bare tree on the south side of the river. I have posted a shot below – not a prize winner by any means as the tree was quite far away. Just for fun I also shot a Canada Goose napping in the shallow waters of the fishing pond. After we got…

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Sightings
March 29, 2020

March 29, 2020

Once again the cooler spring weather kept Whisper and I indoors until evening. We made it to our usual walking venue parking at the Anticline Fishing Pond around 5:30 PM giving me about an hour and a half of shooting light. Our walk was basically just that, a walk, since no birds or critters offered themselves as photographic fodder. There were some sightings. Sightings:Birds: Osprey, Cormorant, Robin, Kestrel, Starling, ducks, Canada GeeseCritters: None Since I captured no images tonight the featured image at the top of this post was shot in March 2019 and below is an image I shot on…

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