Panasonic HMC151 camera test. Birdfeeder etiquette - the pecking order

Part of a camera test with the Panasonic HMC 151 AVCHD handycam, shot and uploaded at 1280x720, so best watched with the HD viewing option.
It was the middle of winter ("bitterly cold" - for England) when I had a weekend loan of this camera, so I set it up outside and used the remote control to operate it from indoors. The pre-record buffer was very useful, allowing me to press the record button after I spotted a bird arriving, but capturing the previous three seconds too. With a tape-based, which unlaces the tape after a period on standby, I would probably have missed the first 5-10 secs after the bird arrived, whereas with this camera it was easy to capture the arrivals too!

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• blackbird
• blue
• tit
• feeder
• panasonic
• HD
• camcorder
• test
• AVCHD
• 720p

[mezpezlez]

nice video, but the leaves are green, how can it be Bitterly cold?

[dv2broadcast]

The large shrubs you see in the background are euchryphia and aucuba, both evergreen and in full leaf during February when it was cold - it snowed later that day!

[mezpezlez]

ok lol...maybe im just de-sensitized from Canadian Winters =P

[dv2broadcast]

Fair point - I wasn't thinking in global terms, just in the context of mild English weather.

[Niko1917]

nice. what editing software did u use?

[dv2broadcast]

Premiere Pro CS4. Unfortunately the current version (4.01) doesn't support Panasonic's AVCHD files in 720-50P mode, which is what I'd used for this shoot. Hopefully this will be fixed in v4.02 (due April?). So I had to convert the files to DVCProHD format, which is anamorphic, before exporting from PremPro at non-anamorphic 1280x720, so that will have degraded the horizontal resolution a bit in this sample. I'm waiting for the fix before I upload any more AVCHD samples.

[rollmodelesq]

Great quality. I've owned this camera for a while now, but unfortunately not had many opportunities to use it.

Really nice example.

[25bucks25]

amazing,

i admire your patience,

[bradvans]

Nice video