Some from today... Common wax-bill, subadult (male) Northern Cardinal, Red-whiskered Bulbul ("desperately searching for birds", in this case it's fledglings) and fledglings of Chestnut Munia.

I am very pleased with your interest in tree frogs. So I will add 2 more photos in full format. Here I like how its back is bent against a leaf ...
(both photos are taken with R7). The photos are from the Czech Republic, the city of Břeclav - Poštorná.

@zajicekpavel said:

The season of blue butterflies has begun. Which in my opinion is the most beautiful butterfly.

The most beautiful is pretty personal (not only for the butterflies of course). And the "blues" are many species, not one! My personal favorite from the European butterflies is the Apollo (Parnassius appollo). Actually there are several striking-looking butterflies in Europe (look at Apatura ilia when the wings are at the right angle for example...)!

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Nice photos, keep posting!

If the cow can jump over the moon, why can't the chipmunk jump over the Northern flicker?


EOS R1, EF 600mm f/4L IS II + RF 1.4x Extender, 1/2000 s, f/5.6, ISO 1250

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That's a beautiful photo. Feel free to post it in a larger size.

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One more of the same opinion!

@zajicekpavel said:

tree frog

May 29, 2026 by Pavel Zajíček

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These are very good indicator for clean environment!

It's why I don't really like the Small Indian mongoose... Judging by the feathers this should be Warbling White-eye (most probably fledgling).

Dragon said:

I like the first one. Looks like a dragon

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Do you mean like @Dragon ?

Here something from today: small tree with pretty big (5-5.5 cm) flowers. Botanical garden.

If youre having issues with the leica app your doikg something wrong, that app is the most reliable and easy to connect than any other.

David - Sydney said:

I do wonder how diffraction in practice seems to be less of an issue for higher mp sensors than the maths would indicate.

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I suspect that's because we're still at the point where it's not a big issue at the middle f/stops. If we work off the assumption that an Airy disk of twice the size of a photo site is the point where we start seeing noticeable loss of acuity (microcontrast) then on an R5 II that starts showing up at f/6.6 in theory so really at f/8 or smaller. That's still the traditional "sweet spot" of "two stops below wide open to about f/8" that has been the rule. Well, at least on lenses at least f/3.3 wide open. I suspect it'll first be noticed with people using supertelephotos or long tele-zoom lenses where two stops down is inside that problem area.

I've noticed the major lens vendors are focusing now on sharpness wide open. I suspect that is so there will be more aperture choices as that "sweet spot" moves up and problems start showing up at things like f/4 (about 120MP for full frame and around 60MP for crop sensors).

ctk said:

There is a big market opportunity for cameras that are better than phones but decidedly NOT ILCs.

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Canon's ancient-tech PowerShots reportedly still sell well. It will be interesting to see what the future models look like.

I'm OK with a 1" sensor augmented with software. HEIF sweep panorama mode, fake bokeh, "smart" HDR. I have crested the top of the ILC mountain with my a7CII and dont feel the need to keep chasing the bleeding edge of tech. My RX100 has a lot of unfulfilled potential that something like this could meet.

I would also really love an IP67 or even IP68 1" sensor body. Obviously dont need a bleeding edge lens on it. Just let me dunk it in pools and oceans without concern.

I think it would be a mistake to try and make these things compete head on with ILCs on stuff like sensor size and lens speed. If people want ILCs they will buy ILCs. There is a big market opportunity for cameras that are better than phones but decidedly NOT ILCs.

neuroanatomist said:

1.6 squared is 2.56. The base 2 log (i.e., stops) of 2.56 is 1.356144.

I round that to 1-1/3 so it translates to camera-based 1/3-stop exposure settings.

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I agree with your math. My mistake. A long time ago, I calculated that the 1.6x sensor size allows a 4/3 stop speed booster to be made, although the image quality on the edges might be fairly poor. (I used ln2.56/ln2)

It was Scarce Chaser day today. As they are rare and scarce and I had the RF 100-500mm with me, here is aselection.

@zajicekpavel said:

Today the dragonflies had a great party by the water...

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I really like the second one. Well done!

You're right, the Lumix L 10, which I didn't know, is a very interesting little camera, and its Vario Summilux too. Of course, the lens isn't made by Leica, maybe not even developed by them. Yet, Leica wouldn't accept a miserable lens to be named so. If I have some $ left and the coming Canon compact is underwhelming...

The G1Xiii is a superb little camera, it just doesn’t have a ‘fast’ lens, but the one it has is very good, and not ‘soft’ as some anti Canon and / or Nikon centric commentators have stated.
However , I can see that the asp-c sensor created compromises in the lens range and speed in order to keep the size very small.
I always found the 1.5” sensor of the original G1X to be much better than the ubiquitous 1”, which I found gave images that looked like they had come from a small sensor, whereas the 1.5” didn’t, and 1.5 is only fractionally larger than M4/3, so therefore for a high quality compact the M4/3 or Canon 1.4” makes sense.
Certainly the LUMIX L10 looks very interesting. If Canon doesn’t produce a G1Xiv equivalent I may well get an L10 to try.

AlanF said:

In that case, you might find going on safari and photographing elephants and giraffes close up easier.

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that's right

@zajicekpavel said:

thanks for the info, it was small, I thought I was taking a picture of a mayfly

I can't see up close without glasses and I can't take photos with glasses...so my close-up photos are sometimes a big surprise at home.

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In that case, you might find going on safari and photographing elephants and giraffes close up easier.

blobmonster said:

Looking forward to seeing the next powershots.

I liked the G9- G12 models that were small and came with a little ovf. They are still quite popular used.

Since then, they've either been too big or lacked an always-ready viewfinder imo.

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A camera without a viewfinder is like a soup without salt!

AlanF said:

Obviously some find the "highlights" attractive, but I find them a distraction and rather overwhelming. But chacun à son goût (as we say here but à chacun son goût for Del Paso?).

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"A chacun ses gouts" is usual. Chacun a son gout is rather the cannibalistic version if you take it literally!
Sorry, I do not have the accent circonflexe on my keyboard.

Maximilian said:

This one is freshly hatched.
It will develop its colours within the next days.
Both, ObsIdentify and I had to pass, sorry. It seems to be too young.

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thanks for the info, it was small, I thought I was taking a picture of a mayfly

I can't see up close without glasses and I can't take photos with glasses...so my close-up photos are sometimes a big surprise at home.

And can anyone help me identify this small, transparent species?

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If they are new lenses, they have never been seen before. Just saying.

Del Paso said:

Thanks, I used it but was still hesitant....

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I downloaded your photo and verified with ObsIdentify: when I used the complete photo, it gave a 34% ‘certainty’ of the broad-bodied chaser. When I cropped the photo so it only included the dragonfly, the percentage rose to 100%. So sometimes a large amount of cropping helps.