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15 Nov 64 (CONT.)
A Prugatibird diving on other birds and some good close shots of the two shearwaters.
It produced many angered words but has since been corrected and should not occur further.
Finding birds in the small telephoto field of 300mm remains to be the most major problem with the equipment. Followed closely by the fact that stopping down to the prescribed f/stop sufficiently darkens the field so that it is difficult to follow the bird at all times.
Today's footage should prove most valuable for some good shots were made - barring any failures on the part of the photographer.
16 NOVEMBER 64
Equipment set up at 0730 hours however heavy rolls and cloud cover plus the lack of birds within range prevented its use for about two hours.
As the light became better around 1030 hrs. Birds also began to increase and some footage was shot on white-tailed tropicbird, black-footed Albatross, widgetail shearwater and a distant flock containing Fairy Terns.
During the shipboard pickup of a shot W.-T. Tropicbird a group of