As the year progresses towards a winter of Covid restrictions
I thought it might be a good time to resurrect this thread.
Some of you will know that I am fascinated by nature and before lockdown was a member of our village walking group where each week we would go out and see the wonderous sights of the local wildlife and plants but this has not happened for 5 months now and there is still no signs of it starting up again
We did however have a Webinar on
Introduction to heathland spiders. Ok not as much fun as going out with a sweep net and then peering at the little beasties under a magnifier but hey-ho. But someone asked the Ranger giving the talk what camera he had been using to photograph the spiders in his talk and he said an Olympus Tough 4 which had a really useful microscope mode
If you recall a couple of years ago I dropped my old Canon IXUS on the workshop floor
and quickly brought a new IXUS to replace it so I could continue with my build threads but I have never been as impressed with it as I had been with the original . So for my "21 again" day I chose to have a new camera for taking with me on our walks and decided to take the advice of the Ranger and brought a Tough camera so it should survive when I drop it in the pond, on the ground etc. I also brought for it a fish-eye and telephoto lens and the macro diffuser to go with it
Taking macro pictures is giving me a totally different outlook on the wildlife in my garden and what they get up to that I was hither to unaware of
I have attached a couple of pictures but its all new to me: What I have learnt is that I do not have a steady enough hand to use the clever photo stacking etc modes in macro so more goodies are needed to go with it
Jo
