Honey Bee collects Pollen filmed using Nikon D90

Testing out the Nikon D90 video. This is compressed down to flv format, but shows that the camera will produce very reasonable results.
This was a Honey bee moving around a group of Snow Drops in the grounds of Hanbury Church in Worcestershire, filling it's Pollen sacs. All the close-up footage was hand-held, so a little wobbly!
The audio is not from the camera but recorded on an Edirol R-09 HR, a fantastic piece of kit. The bird singing away in the background of the clip is a Great Tit.
A higher resolution version 1280x720P can be downloaded here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?2njkownc4hf

It's 91mb in-size, but the zip file compresses it to 66mb

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• Honey
• Bee
• Hanbury
• Worcestershire
• Church
• flowers
• fauna
• flora
• pollen
• sacs
• hive
• honey
• Great
• Tit

[Mysticpuma]

All the sound you can hear is from the Edirol. I was using the built-in microphone, so Omni-Directional, and the (I think it's actually a Great Tit) was in the woods very close-by. In use, the Edirol is very clean, and the only noise you may be hearing is that of a road nearby,but I did have the Mic on Automatic Gain Control, but in other recordings without this on,the sound is really amazing!

Don't forget too,that the recording has been down-sampled from the original 48000. wav to 64 k/b mp3.

[muziekkneu]

I'm interested in buying an Edirol myself. Great video en great sound. But it's looks that I hear some background noise. Was there a background noise or is it because of the Edirol? And is there also a Blue tit singing?

Thanks anyway.

[Mysticpuma]

No, it's just the one camera, with the footage edited so that the wide clipsare shot on a 70-200mm zoom, then the close-up footage is filmed on a 50mm and extension tubes. There are three different bees in the footage.

[DevilsCuz]

Do you have 2 cameras going at once?