Sometime in mid-June, I got another camera from eBay for the purpose of using for far, far-away shots, a Canon L2 - originally made in 1994 or so. One advantage to using that camera is that you can get a special extender that lets you use long lenses, so you can get shots from extremely far away, but of course, there’s a catch… and that’s one part caviat emptor on my part, as I found that it does have the ability to use LANC… but it’s limited to zooming ONLY - no focusing control! … That’s one of the major advantages to using LANC in the first place, so that you can keep changing the shot to different parts of the yard if you need to — well, that’s a moot point with this camera, but as a camera itself, it’s not that bad! It does do very well with long-range shots with the lens that came with it (I haven’t gotten the extender, so I’m relying on the lens that came with it) and that means I can sit the camera half-way across the yard from where I’m shooting and still get a somewhat decent shot… as I did with this day. One other strange quirk with the L2 is that it does have the ability to use plug-in mics, and it does have the ability to manually adjust the level of the mics you plug in to it, but it doesn’t even pass the sound through to the outputs unless you’re recording in the camera! If you’re not rolling in the camera, it just shuts the entire sound section off entirely! Not very useful when you’re using it as a analogue input feed… So, yes, the sound isn’t that good with this edit, as I didn’t have a good camera to plug the shotgun mic into, but the day itself was pretty active!

 

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