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I have also been using Topaz Denoise AI and was pleased with the results. However, I was quite surprised when I saw how aggressive you are with the settings. I decided to give it a try and was ...

I also have mixed feelings about focus accuracy using the MC-20.  My E-M1 Mk II focuses perfectly with the 300 mm alone or with the MC-14 added but focus is often soft when using the 2X TC. I tried ...

Good work. Like you, I find it easier not to use the TC for BIF and rely on cropping. However, I still use it when the birds are far away because there is a limit to cropping. I even got decent ...

Tom, I tried to go the cheap telescope way and I would advise you against it.  I purchased a 300$ astro scope on eBay and tried to make acceptable photos for a year without success.  Long distance ...

IBIS used to work quite well with my Skywatcher 600mm and the E-M1.   It has been a few years since I have used it but, if I remember well, depth of field is quite shallow.  I stopped using it ...

PM sent as requested. Here are a few photos taken with my Skywatcher 80/600 ED and Olympus M43 cameras - E-M5 and E-M1 Mk 1.

You get everything you need:  the scope, the extension tubes and an Olympus M43 adaptor that can connect to your E-M1.  Plus, there are a telenegative and a barlow that can act as tele-converters ...

I can't tell.  Mine is the SkyWatcher Black Diamond 80 ED 600mm.  It has a very good reputation. Skywatcher is a very large manufacturer and they make scopes under their own name but also for ...

My Skywatcher 600mm ED scope is still available.  It would have to be shipped from Canada... https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=348910

Practice costs nothing ! Try it, you will see. You can try digiscoping with a refractor scope used as a manual lens, like described by CangoPluto.  It works extremely well and it may be the best ...

Working with long lenses is difficult !  With an E-M1 Mk II, you should be able to get sharp pictures hanholding your 75-300mm.  Getting a 100-400mm will make it more difficult.  I suggest you ...

Same here. I inherited my father's Nikkormat with a Nikkor-S 50mm f/1.4 lens and used it for many years. I purchased Vivitar 35mm and 135mm lenses to complete my system. Thank you for reminding...

Thanks Ken.  I don't think keywords are the problem.  The more I look at it, I am quite sure the problem lies with memory.  It seems that some process makes memory unavailable to LR.  I'm ...

Thanks Carlos. 160 species photographed.  Unfortunately, quite a few are only souvenir quality due to the lack of light in the jungle.

I use the free version of CCleaner and I do the Regristy backup it suggests before cleaning it.

C-R is now closed to visitors because of CV. Light can be a huge problem in the jungle and on the Pacific coast where there are a lot of trees with large leaves. In the mountains, forests are also ...

Light is often a problem in Costa-Rica, mainly in the jungle.  I tried using the flash in high speed mode with a Better Beamer but I found it gave me more problems than benefits and I stopped ...

Just back from a 2 weeks birding trip to Costa-Rica. Here are a few Hummers from the 50 species found there. The key to photograph them is to take a lot of photos. I took about 1500 to bring you ...

Thank you all for your help and valuable advice.  Here is what I have done so far: Disable virus checking for the preview files Update drivers for my Nvidia GTX 750 TI.  This card is quite old and ...

This is difficult.  Most of my photos are bird photos and I have keywords for each species.  I need to search regularly in all files and splitting the catalog would be contrary to my needs.  ...