My local river still has barbel yippee

[Clive Shipman]

Hurrah the otters never got them all!!!!

 

[Chris Fox]

Good spotting mate!

 

[Alan Andrews]

Shippo you are a star are these the same fish you spotted last year or from reaches a new ? of to buy ammalgamation now

Alan

 

[David Hall]

is it just the one......lol, but nice spotting.

 

[Clive Shipman]

Must have looked a bit weird some fat chap taking pictures of the water eh lol. There were at least 8 fish there, the first picture may not look it but the fish is at least 11-12lb

 

[Ian Crook]

Well, as usual, I can't see em but will take your word for it.........

 

[Pete Marshall]

Get a polarising filter. For best results..but they are certainly there!

 

[Ian Crook]

What, on my laptop screen??

 

[Pete Marshall]

What, on my laptop screen??

Would no doubt cause some very interesting results...but on the end of the lens is the usual method!

 

[Clive Shipman]

Its through a cheap polarising filter on a even cheaper 3 mil mega pixel digi camera I also have a small vid clip which is even harder to see the fish. I was trying to temp them in 8" of water but only one chub knew there were pellets there just out of the flow.

 

[Pete Marshall]

It's tough taking photos through water with any gear. Digi cams are going to focus on the water surface rather than through it, even with a polarising filter, and cheap polarising filters can be worse than none!
Still it hasn't done to bad a job, once you apply a few enhancments as you can see the fish is pretty clear, although the colours are now looking like a night out on the 'rooms.
Best results can be got with a cheap digi cam,, in a water proof bag, lowered into the water and set to take one photo after another. Many of them can do this or can be hacked to make them do it. Surprisingly good results can be got with pretty cheap gear, once you get it into the water, as long as it is only a few feet deep and plenty of sunlight.

 

[Haydn Clarke]

Its through a cheap polarising filter on a even cheaper 3 mil mega pixel digi camera I also have a small vid clip which is even harder to see the fish. I was trying to temp them in 8" of water but only one chub knew there were pellets there just out of the flow.

Question: I have a half-decent camera, a Samsung 10 mega pixel job and would like to get a polarising filter. Having just a quick look on ebay and such like, all the polarizing filters seem to be made for slr type cameras. How did you fix a polarising filter to a small 3 meg camera?

Haydn

 

[Pete Marshall]

You hold it in front of the lens. I have a very expensive high quality polarising filter that fits on my dSLR lenses. As I never carry a dSLR on the river bank (too much like work) I just carry the filter and hold it in front of my camera phone, turning the filter until I get the effect I want. As long as the filter is a "circular" polariser it will not interfere with the auto focus of most digi cams and camera phones are fixed focus so even a decent polarised lens from your glasses will work as long as it isn't prescription like mine are, hence carrying the filter (with cameras that use auto focus like dSLR's and most compact cameras, a standard (rather than circular..which doesn't refer to the shape, but how the polarised layer is applied)polarised lens will throw the auto focus off). There are sure to be some special gadget to do this, but I find that evolution gave us hands and these usually do the trick.

 

[Clive Shipman]

Its a canon A80 and I purchased a adapter to affix a polarising lense to. I will post some pics tomorrow.

 

[Pete Marshall]

Its a canon A80 and I purchased a adapter to affix a polarising lens to. I will post some pics tomorrow.

I think the A80 has a RAW setting (although that may be the S90). If so try shooting in RAW and processing the images yourself...you will get a great deal more detail. Those early Canon digi cams still produce a good quality file at lower ISO settings and the lens quality is better than most.

 

[Clive Shipman]

Here's the adapter.