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Lenses / Re: How Much do you use your Canon EF 16-35mm L ??

« on: March 27, 2013, 02:26:48 PM »

Bought the lens(version 1) a few years ago for wide angle shots of African wildlife in their environment. We shoot in African game parks & ,must mostly stay in the car. I found the animals in foreground were too small & had distortion animals & horizon when lens wide open. Now use my 35-70 lens for the same shots. Find magnification of animals in foreground is what I need.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Using LP E4N battery or cheaper LP E4 batteries on my 1DIV & its LC E4 charger

« on: March 09, 2013, 12:21:28 PM »

Thank you all for the rapid replies & sound advice

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Using LP E4N battery or cheaper LP E4 batteries on my 1DIV & its LC E4 charger

« on: March 09, 2013, 09:50:23 AM »

I would appreciate advice. I need new batteries for my 2 IDIVs.
Original LP E4s are difficult to find.

I cannot find any good reviews on the cheaper subsitutes. There are many makes  the prices vary a great deal. "Jupio" is available in the Netherlands & is the most expensive but I dont know of any references that they are better.

I understand the new  LP E4N can be charged on by IDIV charger but will only reach 90% capacity. I acan ccept that because a new charger is very expensive for me. But what worries me are the comments that charging the LP E4N on the LC E4 charger is unsafe. Does anyone have experience with this.

Comments on my quandry about buying a generic LP E4 or rather the LP E4N to charge on my LC E4 charger will be appreciated.

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Wild dogs at impala kill at savuti in Botswana

« on: February 18, 2013, 11:17:49 AM »

This shot was with a 7D & canon 300mm f 4. It was very early but we were too close for me to use the my favourite 1DIV+500mm f4 lens combination. Their is a big difference in the low light capcity of the two cameras but I dont like to swop lenses in the dusty conditions especially with often rapidly changing events.
The portfolios give all the technical details & i am adding biological notes to the captions. But this is slow work as the editing of the 20,000 photos of the last trip & the biology blog I run on the same site seem to devour an old man's time. I am now also adding newborn elephant, & leopard shots from Savuti.

Comments appreciated ++

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Animal Kingdom / Wild dogs at impala kill at savuti in Botswana

« on: February 18, 2013, 10:12:44 AM »

We left camp in the twilight to travel along the west bank of the flowing Savuti river to Motsipi island in Savuti National Park. As we turned a bend we found the wild dogs devouring an impala kill. every now and then they would stop & scan their surroundings.

oldageadventurers
www.africaraw.com

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Software & Accessories / Re: Gloves for Photography

« on: February 17, 2013, 03:23:19 AM »

Just a brief note about taking gloves if going on a photography safari in Southern Africa. In the Kgalagadi & Kalahari (SA, Namibia, Botswana) temperatures drop to minus 6 at night in winter i.e. July, August. All warms up in the sun by 1100. Since mainly shooting from the car no real problem. But we spend 4-6 months camping in the desert bush in our roof top tent above our landcruiser. Their is often ice on the tent walls in the morning and it would be painful  collapsing the tent & pushing in the folds every morning if I didnt have my Mammuth fingerless gloves with mittens (available in Europe).

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Animal Kingdom / Re: images from our Aug -Nov 2012 photosafari

« on: January 18, 2013, 03:55:26 AM »

Thanks for the kind comments . The technical details & often biological notes on each photo are on the website which is linked to the blue internet icon on the side of the post (www.africaraw.com).

Since our retirement 8 years ago we spend 4-6 months a year roaming the African bush & game parks in our landcruiser with a rooftop tent. Our site gives tips on travel spots, photography, & driving a 4WD for beginnners. Our reports may help other "old age adventurers" who want to start travelling around Africa.

I have also started a blog on the site which concentrates on the physiology of african wildlife e.g. why are female hyenas masculinized. Still lots of work to be done explaining the very  varied & sometimes difficult concepts. But any interesting titbits on nature are also reported e.g. Ianin Woodhouse's use of Van Gogh, Seurat, & Constable & PS to draw attention to deforestation  htpp://blog.africaraw.com

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Animal Kingdom / images from our Aug -Nov 2012 photosafari

« on: January 17, 2013, 07:17:03 PM »

My wife & I are currently editing the photos we took in Kgalagadi, Etosha. Caprivi, Chobe & savuti. here is a picture of lions taken in the very early morning at Chudop Waterhole in Etosha & amartial eagle with its guinea fowl kill




There are many more on our website. Please have a peep.