Bird photography in Sardinia

[@eust785]

Awesome photograph as usual. I'm with you on the Flamingo.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

I think that is only 2 of us.

[@JanicevD]

Also, the dung beetle footage reminded me the universe seems to have a sense of humor. ;)

[@micktoulmin4616]

Yet another great video Mike cheers 👍

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Thanks

[@wayneemery5709]

Another fantastic video Mike.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Thank you

[@grahamhall6832]

Very relieved. Ha Ha. Not just a brilliant photographer and an excellent commentator .... You are now a master of the understatement. Another good one Mike.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Thanks for your comments

[@northdevonwildlifewithandy788]

Fantastic stuff again Mike.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Thanks

[@mattwaller8959]

My thumbs up is for the video and the fantastic photos, NOT for your travel headaches and card issues! Glad to hear you were able to salvage the quail shots.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Thanks

[@brianslade1046]

All of your videos are superb.The content is quite exceptional and always inspiring (long may it continue).

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Thanks. Keeps me busy.

[@JonSnow009]

10:37 in the morning by looking at the sun, I'm dying over here. Bear Grylls can sod off now. :))))))

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

You have to keep in mind BST is 2 hours different to Sardinia!

[@harrr53]

Just some advice to anyone watching since Mike doesn't say it explicitly, although it is implied that is what he did. When you get a card error, don't try to continue to use the card to take pictures or video. Put it aside and shoot on another card, until you get to use the recovery software.

[@markchambers8826]

Terrific. I learn so much from your videos

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Thanks

[@SkylarkFields]

That was an eventful trip! I'm glad you got what you hoped to get though - plus some extras! Very interesting video.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Thank you very much

[@bellasvistas3463]

Hope that you can get your watch repaired. I really enjoy your videos very educational as well. I didn't know that song birds use the same song posts over and over. Thanks very much. Mike

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

More so with some species than others.

[@JanicevD]

Beautiful! The patterns on the quail feathers reminds me of the patterns on the bitterns.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Both species very loud when you are close. The quail makes you jump.

[@markwhitesell4491]

Wonderful birds, as per your usual. But especially, thanks for the info regarding the card-recovery software. I hope to never need it but I'm glad to know about it.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

It works on hard drives just as well.

[@subhakhowai]

Beautiful..

[@amaimani]

Amazing work and you are really inspiring in your style

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@JoATTech]

Great photos and video! Cheers m8.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Thanks.

[@mw-wc4vw]

Well, I didn't need those " few seconds" 😂 Great video 👍

[@JimNicholls]

Another great video, Mike. The shots of the dung beetle were a bonus and perhaps the best I've seen of that creature. It didn't seem to mind your being there, and put on a good performance for the camera.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Was ignoring me.

[@mikesphotography7185]

Great video Mike 👍

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Thank you.

[@karl-heinzweege2395]

Thank you for allowing us to accompany you again on your wildlife tour. A fantastic video with lots of inspiration! I see you are now using the Benro S6 video head (and not the Manfrotto 502 pro).

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Not much difference between them. Prefervto use the heavier Vinten head i have but difficult when flying.

[@davidosborn3356]

Another excellent travelogue video. Almost a disastrous trip, but thankfully you look as if you recovered and achieved some fabulous images. Thankfully the card failure was recoverable, we forget sometimes and rely on these things religiously, so I must check to see if you’ve put a link in your description page for your recovery software, it’s always best to have something sorted prior to just in case.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

www.easeus.com I don't think it was cheap and I bought it a long time back.

[@louisswaim7024]

Enjoyed the video! I’ve never seen a Cetti’s Warbler. It’s very attractive, and puts me in mind of a Marsh Wren, abundant here in similar habitats of California.

[@ljwildlifephotography]

Great advice on switching up the focus point. I was photographing Red Grouse in the Peak District and had to do the same. The heather really distracts the autofocus!

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Thanks

[@blutey]

A while back I accidentally deleted some footage from a Lumix camera using the camera's own delete button. Easeus wasn't able to recover it. Seems using Panasonic's own deletion routine in camera makes it harder to recover a file compared to eg a file deleted from an SD card via your computer.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Formatting in camera usually means files can be recovered.

[@MartinJSmithPhotographyUK]

Thanks for sharing Mike, I'm with Mark I don't go abroad too much hassle. I let other people have all the hassle and I can watch it on my screen, hats off too you for putting up with all the problems 👍

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Foreign travel is an addiction for which I have found no cure.

[@fgb3126]

@@MikeLaneFRPS If this trip didn't do the trick, nothing will!

[@jeffslade1892]

I am struggling to understand your problem with smuts in your GH6 because with my long experience with both brands, that does not happen. I have never had a problem with dust on the sensor of a Lumix (or Olympus) except when I ran the GH4 on a Newtonian telescope "in prime" i.e. with the sensor open to the elements, and sticky black smuts got in. That was a royal pain. I now use a STC Nightscape clip in filter for astro which also protects the open sensor. Like Olympus they have an ultrasound sensor vibrator which is supposed to work automatically on start up and hence whenever you change lenses. I am perplexed. I have a mixed bag of Ollie and Pana cameras, so I am thinking where has this smut come from? Is it sticky pollen, do you change lenses in the field? Does your video lens on the GH6 have dust in it? I know my G9 can rock 180fps in FHD (slo-mo) but not with auto-focus or audio. I have not tried that birding but do know it will AFC (C-AF) nicely at 60fps but the trick for clarity for subject movement is not faster frame rate but faster shutter. The default shutter will be 180° i.e. twice the frame rate 60fps gives 1/120s but there is no reason not to go faster, apart from the ISO, you can take it up to your stills shutter speeds with enough light. Whilst Olympus external sound recorders are very good (probably the best), Panasonic probably have the best in-camera sound recording (ask Technics) and specialist microphones. Olympus have never been very good at shooting long video, the sensor heats up and the image tinges magenta (this is noted in very small print in the manuals). After 10 minutes or so the colours go funny. Lumix use a heat sink, the GH design the entire camera frame as a radiator

[@rogerhance5883]

Great video Mike. (as always) I had a card fail in exactly the same way about a year ago. Same message. Card error !. On both computer and camera. As there was nothing special on the card, I was not really worried about trying to recover the images. I threw the card away, which was annoying, because it was an expensive fast card I used for Procap . After you had recovered the images from the card, did you format the card and use it again ,or did you chuck it away ? If it happened once, I would never feel confident using that card again.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

I formatted it on the computer with the quick format option off. Took 20 minutes. Still using it but cautiously. Take a few then put another card in

[@rogerhance5883]

@@MikeLaneFRPS I did not know you could format a card on the computer. I thought you had to do it on the camera ? Is the Easeus software a free one or paid for ? I have never used it.

[@stevevickers2844]

Smashing video Mike - felt a little sorry for the “ugly” description of the poor flamingos 😢. I took quite a lot of video of these birds at the Laguna De Medina in Spain, when they spread their wings they are beautiful so I thought I’d put in a word for them. 😅

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

They are very popular. I am out of step with the majority. Not unusual.

[@wez498]

Glad you managed to recover your images and footage!

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

It was a relief even though I was 99.9% confident I could.

[@cherrob48]

Glad all the travel glitches were overcome, but they are the sort of thing that shouldn’t happen., you ended up with some great footage and images. Big scare regarding the card. Don’t you have a second card backing up in the camera? I have never thought it necessary myself but I might reconsider that now! I have never heard a Greenfinch sing before. It is a lovely song. 😊

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

I only use a single card

[@CamillaI]

Blimey what a journey Mike reminds me why I do local wildlife here in the UK ! Great to get the impossible to photograph subjects here in the UK shots. But great variety and different species of course, marvellous tips 👍

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

The UK is not an easy country to photograph wildlife in. There are countries where you can just walk up to birds. Even ospreys.

[@catherinetremerryn]

Poor thing re beginning of the trip but what fantastic photos. I had the same problem with my card and ended up throwing it away. It then happened again! I reset my OM1 and all, touch wood, all seems to be ok. Do you think it’s a software prob? LR said it wasn’t them.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

No idea. Only happened once and all files fully recovered. Still using the card but in a less important camera

[@francescomaurodeledda3642]

Vivo in Sardegna a Sassari e mi fa piacere che tu sia venuto qui da noi a fotografare i volatili.... prossima volta che torni in Sardegna andiamo insieme a fotografare i grifoni a capo Marrargiu. A presto...

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Grazie. Molti altri posti che devo visitare anche io.

[@johngunning2123]

Ugh! Flight cancellations/delays etc seem to be more common these days. My very first digital camera had a habit of destroying memory cards. I didn't fix it, I just stopped using it and it sat in a drawer for about ten years until we moved house and then I threw it in the bin. Since then (touch wood) I've had no problems other than operator error.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

I usually start with operator error until I am proved innocent.

[@bonilsson3161]

Wonder if the dung bethel is trying to get the dung into a moister spot so the dung could soften a bit ?

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

I have no idea.

[@TL-xw6fh]

I experienced a card error with my Panasonic GX80 twice. Unfortunately it is only a single slot. I now make sure that I replicate my images onto the second card slot on my E-M1ii. Never trust the SD cards now.

[@przybylskipawel]

Do you use two cards for backup? I do, but still hesitate wether to use one card for RAWs and second for jpegs to save space or both for RAWs, as they seem to be more valuable and beacause shooting jpegs seems to slow down buffer clearing. BTW is the card that faild on you the same one that has lower write speed when clearing the buffer?

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Only one copy. No it was a Lexer card. The only one that is not a Sandisc.

[@przybylskipawel]

@@MikeLaneFRPS I heard people had problems with this brand. I use them all the time and had similar problem once. But most photographers claim that they had cards corrupted regardless of brand at some point in time. Therefore I shoot on two cards whenever I can.

[@GiuseppeGessa]

I can't understand which part of Sardinia you were. Anyway, if I knew you were over here, I would help you in some way, maybe telling you some spot. Beautiful pictures anyway.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Thank you Giuseppe, We only got to cover from Arbatax to Cagliara.

[@GiuseppeGessa]

@@MikeLaneFRPS Ok, now I understood where you were. Great place. Ok, if you next time decide to go in north of Sardinia, let me know, it'll be a pleasure to take you somewhere.

[@gaetanoficara6040]

Hi Mike, a few hours ago I wrote a comment eight this video, but now I don't see it anymore. Would you please explain? Thank you, Gae Ficara

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Hello, I can't see another comment from you. Assuming no bad lanquage used and operator error not made the the YT database not being perfect is the most likely.

[@griphuz]

Do you use a directional microphone when filming Mike?

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Yes a Rode.

[@eljayr4669]

You don’t seem to have much luck when you go abroad but a great informative video as usual

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Thank you.

[@aliyazhulamanova6596]

I'm from Sardinia

[@gerhardwiesinger]

Nice, where did you stay in Sardinia?

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Arbarax mostly

[@przybylskipawel]

The one @7:13 did you use different optics?

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

All same lens.

[@leehanley71]

Nice video Mike, enjoyed the film and stills. Sorry to hear about the delayed start to your trip, and it's brilliant you got to recover the files from the card. Thanks for sharing Mate 📸👍🏽

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Thanks

[@cliftonwhittaker260]

I always know your posts are going to be interesting, Mike. Sorry about your FUBAR travel arrangements in Sardinia.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

All part of the adventure of travel

[@sabyasachibanerjee124]

I would rate your Car Rental and Hotel companies as downright unprofessional! They should be going out to make your day easy rather than playing hardball. And the card read error on top of that. Lucky that You salvaged them and we got to see such nice up close shots.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

I have had refunds from hotels car hire and airline

[@przybylskipawel]

That beetle has really crappy job

[@skakdosmer]

It seems those Sardinians had found an effective scam to make you part with some more of your money. Thanks for the pictures, and thanks for ... easeus, was it?

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

www.eraseus.com