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You will also see them more easily with aperture closed down i.e. f22 or whatever. Cleaning sensor periodically is a normal part of interchangeable lens cameras. A bulb type blower is first thing to get it might blow the specks off - and if not in a rush you use it to blast the back of the lens...

Quickshare from google connects direct to laptop or PC from pixel phone anyway - no cloud involved. It's via home wifi so not blazingly fast but not slow either - the fastest way will be connect cable and I'd probably do it that way for more than a handful of photos or one video. I don't...

The setting is in focus assist and is called focus magnification then you usually have at least two options for what it first jumps too. Or is the question about reviewing images to check focus.

It maybe only zooms in then you touch menu or shutter to go back to show full image. Almost every button can be customised, I have what's on left button in FN menu and put focus peaking or zebras there (on different Sonys)

You'll be on the Southern Edge of cropton forest which is likely to be pretty good. There's a limestone escarpment just south of Stape and all along the base of that is an area of rough grazing and patchy woodland. Cropton Forest is now into second generation so a good range of cleared and...

Where are you staying. We have a lot of owls the forested areas are probably your best option.

It's worse in video, you can stop it by flicking into manual focus.

The A7Siii update is pretty good, it feels like a different camera with revised menu more like newer Sony style and also swipe on screen brings up useful icons both sides is this unique? Seems quite useful if you remember its there, could do with it on A7iv too. The only real technical...

No snow here for a change, we often get worst spell of Winter in March or even April. These were spotted at a point I pass daily never noticed before but large clumps this time can't have all grown this year.

It looked on its last legs probably snow and/or wind broke it off and the bits blew away. Trees don't thrive on waterlogged windswept uplands in northern England

Probably but when there are literally 100s trampling there and back all year round a degree of gradual destruction is inevitable.

I can understand this to an extent, there are numerous places in the UK which social media has amplified as must do locations to a previously unknown crazy level. They all have cars to park and litter to drop etc. Then trample the area to oblivion over time. The entire Lake District for example...

Twenty years ago we might have gone into York or even Leeds to look at a good range of cameras but these days the very idea fills me with dread as driving and parking there would cost a small fortune and take all day. At every stage you are seen as a cash cow while simultaneously made to feel...

Yes but even if you have a large area you don't need to create a perfect official weather station. You want to know what it is like at your house. A lot of the value comes from comparing the same location (any location) over several years too.

Probably wild plum variant at this time of year. Often mistaken for Blackthorn (Sloes) which won't be out yet except perhaps in earliest areas.. 'May' is an alternative name for hawthorn which is starting to leaf but won't flower until well into April at earliest though sometimes a few plants in...