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Image Break-down: Scops Owl Through A Keyhole

Aditya Sridhar — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 11:32:21 +0000

The Indian Scops Owl is one of my favourite bird species of all time. Mysterious, elusive, and perfectly camouflaged, these pocket predators are always high up on my list of ...

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Nikon 500mm f/4e FL – A Long-term Review and Comparison with the 500mm PF

Aditya Sridhar — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:23:15 +0000

A while ago, I dropped my trusty old 500mm PF – a gem of a lens – onto hard concrete, decentring the optics and rendering it completely unusable. As a ...

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‘Between Dusk and Dawn’ – Indian Scops Owl

Aditya Sridhar — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 09:20:45 +0000

I was the first person to enter the sanctuary on this cold, foggy morning. It was my last day in Bharatpur and there was one species I desperately wanted to ...

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‘Sentinel’ – Nilgai

Aditya Sridhar — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 14:05:57 +0000

While Bharatpur is well-known for its accessibility to wildlife, especially along the park’s main roadway, I find that very little is said about some of its smaller, untraveled trails. They ...

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Review: Nikon 500mm f/5.6 PF – Autofocus and Teleconverter Performance

Aditya Sridhar — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 12:22:02 +0000

This post was initially supposed to be a discussion about the Nikon 500mm f/5.6 PF’s (500PF) autofocus capabilities, but a lot of elements regarding the lens’s performance with a teleconverter ...

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Review: Nikon 500mm f/5.6 PF – Image Quality

Aditya Sridhar — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 22:54:15 +0000

Nikon’s super-light 500mm f/5.6 PF lens is a game-changer. It fills a very special niche and offers something that no other lens on the market offers, at least not at ...

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