Tom Tarrant

Samsonvale, Australia

After a short stint (two years) working in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a photogrammetrist Tom decided to splash-out and buy the Canon EX1 Hi8. At the time this was the 'state-of-the-art' semi-professional analogue Video-Camera, the only one that could utilize 'interchangeable' lenses as with SLR cameras.

During the next 5 years this equipment was used to film birds and wildlife in Saudi Arabia, UAE, UK, Switzerland, Nepal, Thailand, Malaysia, India, Singapore, Fiji and of course Queensland, Australia where I am resident. At the time most of this 'captured' video was only used to create 'still' shots.

Unfortunately the strain of all this use has shown on the camera which is currently only able to 'playback' and not record, so I've decided to 'revitalize' the films and convert them into 'clips' that can be used on the web.

Since 2006 I've used a Sony HDR Handycam with reasonable results. I was involved in the creation of the Oriental Bird Club Image Database (see www.orientalbirdimages.org) and have my own resource the Australasian Bird Image Database (ABID) on www.aviceda.org/abid

Please also visit my website on www.aviceda.org

• First material posted on 3 March 2004
• Number of videos posted: 468 covering 305 species (3.09%)
• Number of photos posted: 160 covering 144 species (1.46%)
• Number of sounds posted: 3 covering 2 species (0.02%)