alexnaturals

I just bought this Tokina AF 80-400, for bird photo and any advice or instruction is very wellcome.

Also, does anybody know how can I take the tripod socket ring away?... is making the lens a little to heavy...

In this lens box, it comes as well a BH- 724 hood... should I allways use it as recommended by the brand?

If you help me well, I will not only give you the 10 points for the best answer... if you give me your e mail address, I'll send you the best bird picture from Khao Yai National Park in Thailand, next saturday...

My major interest:

1 general nature

2 beach relaxing

3 Birdwatching

4 great photo scenarios

5 family sites

6 dinning good

7 shopping

8 city cool sites ( monuments, galleries, castels, museums, ect )

I recently moved into Thailand and as a birdwatching lover, I've been trying to find the way of seen some of the spectacular sites in this great country.

But everyone treat me like a rich "falan" and try to charge me in between $500 to $1000 for a guided weekend.

I'm a professional birding guide from Costa Rica with almost 20 years of experience in all latin america, north america and some caribbean islands, so, I know there is always somehow you can go find birds with more logical people who share the pasion on it...

If anybody could give me tips or experiences about it, I'll highly appreciated and will be happy to exchange info about birds from American Continent and - now - from Hong Kong and Indonesia as well, since I was over there for 6 months on my way to Thailand ( job reasons ) and spended good time to see birds in this two - nice - sites... thanks

It has to be a sistem with a click and go to, so, that I decide for a start or astro on a computer sistem and the scope will find it and focus for me...

I have a Nikon D70 digital camera, so, I need to be able of taking pictures with that camera trough the scope... it has to be possible to adapt it...

Does anything like that exist on the market? and as for a cost 'till $500.00?