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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
09-29-2022, 11:50 AM
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I was testing a Sigma 18-200mm 3.5-6.3 DC on my Nikon in Hyde Park and came across this little fellow just as he found an acorn - seemed very pleased with it.
Originals are the top four in this folder
Squirrels | Flickr |
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
06-20-2022, 03:59 PM
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Been a long while since I and a squirrel coincided when I had a camera, but I was out testing a Pentax 110-70 lens on Micro 4/3 today and happened to have some nuts handy, so...
Probably not the best lens for this since it's fixed aperture F2.8, manual focus, and closest distance is 1.5M, but never mind. Rest of the images (no more squirrels with the 70mm lens) are in this album
Pentax 110 Lenses on Micro 4/3 | Flickr
The 70mm shots are towards the end.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
01-14-2022, 12:31 PM
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Seen out of the window while testing an Adaptall 200mm/3.5 on my Nikon a few days ago
I suspect that my neighbour would not be terribly happy about his plants...
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
04-30-2021, 12:19 PM
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My two favourite invasive species in a tree in Kensington Gardens, London. The squirrel is the one that isn't green...
Tamron Adaptall 2 28/2.5 on K200D.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
03-17-2021, 01:09 PM
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I've been playing with a thermal imaging camera attachment for my iPhone. Unfortunately the lens is fairly wide angle and resolution is fairly low (the low-res thermal image is superimposed onto a higher resolution image, that's all of 480 x 640). There are better ones around, but not at the sort of money I want to spend. Anyway here's a squirrel - sorry it isn't better.
 
More with this gear here:
Thermal Imaging | Flickr
My album of squirrel shots here
Squirrels | Flickr |
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
12-17-2020, 04:09 PM
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A couple I took today while testing an elderly Canon EF 100-300 f5.6 in Kensington Gardens
I had another one run up to me and climb onto my leg, but this lens doesn't focus below 2 meters unless you mess around with a switch etc. and I didn't manage to get a shot before he ran off again.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
07-24-2020, 11:59 AM
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Haven't seen any squirrels in weeks but wild life seen from my back window this week includes a feral parakeet raiding an ornamental cherry tree in the next garden, and a young fox which went for a stroll on the shed roof, then slid forward on the fairly smooth plastic and eventually fell off, unfortunately concealed by the edge of the flat roof outside my flat - luckily it wasn't hurt, I saw it later and it was OK. Not bad for the middle of London!
Parakeet pictures Nikon D7000 with Vivitar Series 1 100-500mm
Fox pictures Pentax K200D with Miranda 70-210mm
Full-sized pictures at the top of my photo stream:
Marcus Rowland | Flickr
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
05-30-2020, 09:21 AM
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Went to Kensington Gardens for the first time in several weeks on Thursday. Didn't see any squirrels, but got a few pictures of parakeets and this little fellow:
Not as clear as I would have liked, but the first time I've managed to get a decent picture of one for some reason.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-31-2019, 12:27 PM
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A red squirrel! Nice, we never see them in London.
Yesterday I was testing a telephoto converter and took a series of pictures out of my back window, which looks out onto a flat roof. I'd just taken the "before" pictures (with a standard lens) and was in the middle of putting on the teleconverter when a small squirrel appeared on the edge of the roof, having climbed up the ivy from the garden. He looked around, noticed me, and dived back down again so fast I didn't get any photos. Unfortunately this is typical of my luck with squirrels lately...
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
04-11-2019, 12:18 PM
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Testing a "new" Nikon body (D7000) with my favorite 28-300 Tamron, got a couple of reasonably cooperative squirrels:
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
03-06-2019, 02:44 PM
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Another day, another lens test - this time one that's actually useful for squirrels, a Sigma 100-300.
Full size images (several more fairly similar) are in my cumulative album of squirrel shots here:
Squirrels | Flickr |
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
02-27-2019, 07:42 PM
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I've only ever used the Pentax one the "official" way with it in the throat of the camera. I was aware that you could do it the other way, I've had a couple of lenses turn up with M42 adapters stuck on them, but I've always been worried that they might get stuck in the camera's throat - they were designed to work that way, and the catch for the adapter isn't accessible when a lens is screwed in.
I don't use M42 lenses on a Pentax anyway - I use a Canon as my test bed for most lenses (Pentax K, Sony A, Nikon and Canon are the exceptions since I own DSLRs in these fittings) and the Eos M42 adapters are cheap and have focus confirm chips, and can be fitted and removed very easily since they are an out flange design, Canon Eos flange focal distance is a couple of mm less than M42. They also have a rim to press in the stopdown pin on the lens, which is something the Pentax adapters can't usually do.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
02-26-2019, 07:29 PM
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Joking aside, M42 on Pentax is always a little tricky because the only way to do it is to fit an M42 to PK adapter into the throat of the bayonet mount, you can then screw M42 lenses into that, but changing back to PK needs a tool and can be annoyingly difficult if you try to hurry it.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
02-25-2019, 09:18 PM
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More lens test shots - this time a Helios 44-M 58mm f2 adapted to a Canon Eos 400D
Not bad for a chunk of 1980s Russian glass!
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
02-10-2019, 02:11 PM
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A couple more from yet another lens test, this time a Sigma 55-200 for Canon, not a wonderful lens but OK.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
01-04-2019, 12:00 PM
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More from another lens test a few days ago, this time a HUGE Tamron 70-300 on a K200D body. Another lens where the squirrel is sometimes TOO close! A very dull day, so some camera blur when I didn't use flash.
Flash used
Slight blur (long exposure), the thing that looks like a fang is a bit of an almond.
And another one liking the almonds
My cumulative album of squirrel pictures is here:
Squirrels | Flickr |
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
12-19-2018, 07:08 PM
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A couple more from Kensington Gardens, London. Nice weather but a bit chilly. The squirrels were out in force today, I was using a 70-300mm lens I was testing, the main problem I had was that they kept coming closer than the lens would focus.
The little sods kept trying to mug me for nuts etc. and all I had was a small peanut bar which was soon gone. The Parakeets were also out foraging, at this time of year there aren't many tourists etc. to feed them so they descend in numbers on anyone who looks like they might be a food source. I had two on my shoulders at one stage and I didn't have any food left at all! A woman near me was feeding them and there were so many they kept falling off her arms and shoulders because there wasn't room.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
11-30-2018, 01:58 PM
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Fortuitously spotted this guy a few days ago while testing an ancient 300mm Optomax lens (manual focus M42) on my Canon. Distance about 30-40 metres, crappy weather, not exactly the best squirrel shot I've ever taken, but at least it shows there are still squirrels around in the vicinity of my garden - I was worried the foxes had got them all.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
11-16-2018, 09:08 AM
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A word of caution re hand-feeding red squirrels - apparently they can carry Hansen's Disease (Leprosy), grey ones are immune. Of course you probably don't want to get bitten by any squirrel anyway, but I've been researching the disease for something I'm writing and noticed this, thought I might as well pass it on.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-27-2018, 11:45 AM
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Do they eat bits of pumpkin? I seem to recall seeing a TV show that had footage of a zoo that gave pumpkins to their tigers; they seemed to love disemboweling them.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-21-2018, 01:20 PM
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Forgot to post these from a couple of weeks ago - I was testing a Kodak Gear 78-215 (Tamron made, and sold by them as the 70-210) on my Canon in the park, an OK lens though nothing extraordinary:
Sold the lens tonight, it's OK but nothing really special.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
09-22-2018, 08:11 AM
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Wire mesh is your friend! Excellent for stopping up those annoying squirrel-sized gaps...
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
08-22-2018, 09:48 PM
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A nice one while testing another zoom (Sigma 28-80 macro) in the park
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