AlwynS

Thanks Tom. Part of the "problem" with the picture of the Cedar Waxwing could well be processing but I believe a large part is due to the most unusual appearance of Waxwings. Their feathers are ...

Excellent! Trust you will get a lot of enjoyment out of your new purchase.

....I forgot to mention: PATIENCE! Example: I live in Richmond, BC near Vancouver. As some of you may know, Richmond is almost entirely below sea level so we have a system of dikes surrounding the ...

Oh wow, that is an incredible compliment! Thank you very much: really, really appreciate it. And now good luck with convincing your wife....

You have ventured out to the dark side here! Welcome to the extremely frustrating, but sometimes rewarding, world of the BIF-hunters! I have been struggling with this genre for some time as well ...

There is actually a current, active thread on using the RX10 for birding: see here . This thread includes some images as well

It actually struck me a couple days ago that there seems to be quite a bit of trolling on the forum recently: people lobbing in a single contentious post and then sitting back, not replying to ...

A lovely selection: well done. Appeals to me both as an engineer and as a (somewhat!) photographer. Alwyn

I think you are crying for the moon here. On the one hand you are saying the RX10 is pretty heavy. In the next breath you are saying an APS-C camera with the same lens characteristics would be ...

Which camera are you talking about here? The RX10 III which is the subject of this thread is a 600mm camera. You consider a 400mm FZ1000 or a 600mm RX10 III wide angle? Not sure why else you would ...

I am sorry but I have to strongly disagree with this statement. If a focal length of "only" 600mm precluded a camera from being considered a birding camera you are going to have thousands ...

Lovely series of images David with the Tern and the Goldfinch just gorgeous! Shows you do not always need huge zoom range to get excellent images. To the OP: I use a Panasonic FZ1000 for birding: ...

In the "Will you upgrade" thread, NKBJ stated that according to the full Danish specs, the IV's mechanical shutter has the same limits as the III's: quoted form his post: "According to the complete ...

Yes: up to 1/4000th (mechanical shutter limit). A quick search indicates that flash synch on the RX10 III is possible up to the 1/1,000th and 1/2,000th aperture-dependent mechanical shutter ...

Oops, yes on burst mode: I should have been clear on that. While I am sort of OK with the blackout/lag when the angular velocities are not that big and relatively consistent, both with birds and ...

Thank you: appreciate the kind words As that great scholar and philosopher Homer J Simpson so eloquently put it: "Doh!" :-) Thanks for pointing this out: I forgot about the reduced shutter speed at ...

Now that is interesting! I just naturally assumed between opening the aperture for AF activity, stopping down again for exposure, shutter activity and reading the sensor data there was no option ...

Well, VAT @ 20% accounts for a large part of that. But it still does not explain all of the difference though. Something does seem a bit off. Alwyn

Thanks Richard. And I suspect you are spot on in terms of the demand for RX10 III's going up should the price drop somewhat. In the excitement of the new camera, let's not forget what a very ...

Totally understandable: it is such a great camera. and we cannot be having that, now can we? :-)