Hello Andrew, Mertens Creek campsite at Mitchell Falls is by far the easiest site to drive to and probably the easiest place to see them, provided it hasn’t been burnt out or some other bloody disaster. If you want good pics, plan to stay a week during which time you’ll have to put up with hordes of tourists and the comings and goings of helicopters which make a lot of noise. The $400 trip down to the mouth of the Mitchell in a helicopter is well worth it in my book. So far as I know there is no longer a track into Surveyors pool, so you would have to walk in. Remote!!! Don’t go alone. The drive to Bachsten Gorge on Mount Elizabeth station can be confronting but you would have a much quieter time there. Your task would be easier if you can use a 500 mm f/4 lens with a 1.4 x converter on a DX size camera. That will give you an effective focal length of over 1000 mm (a tripod essential) so you can keep your distance. Good luck Graeme Chapman
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Hello Peter, That depends on how much you fill the frame with the image of the bird. I prefer where possible for the bird to occupy only about half the frame so that I can construct a picture. If you fill the frame you finish up with a photo of just a bird which severely limits how it can be used but it satisfies the pixel peepers – with small birds you can see every barbule. Such photos won’t stand much enlargement. If you do, you finish up with a small bird a foot or more high, which looks grotesque. With the latest SLR cameras such as a Nikon D7200 or D810, the sensors are so good that if you are any good at holding your camera still , remarkably small crops are capable of making good images for most purposes. To get back to your question with the setup I suggested, a Black Grasswren would about half-fill the frame at around 15 metres but a perfectly usable image could be obtained from 20 0r at a pinch, 30 metres away, PROVIDED YOU HOLD THE CAMERA STILL, not easy to do at 1000 mm focal length. Lately I’ve been trying the latest Nikon 2x converter on the big 500 mm (=1500 mm !!) mounted on my Miller tripod with some quite acceptable results. It allowed me to keep a respectable distance from the now famous White-rumped Sandpiper. See my website. Cheers Graeme On 14/03/2015, at 12:44 PM, Peter Shute wrote:
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Just out of interest, what sort of distance would you consider that equipment to be usable at, Graeme? Peter Shute
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