Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 14:51:23 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Steve Sanford Subject: Re: Snowy Owl Pictures MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kathy, Thanks for sharing the great shots of one of my favorite birds. And thanks for sharing the technique! I too just got a new digital camera. It had never occured to me to just hold it to the scope and take a picture. I tried it just now in my yard, and it works great using my Kowa 821 scope and an Olympus D-460 Z (with 3-1 zoom at 1.3 megapixels, about a $400 camera). I have to use the max zoom on the camera to avoid including the interior edges of the scope in the shot. That gives an effective magnification of about 60X but still sharp. I can't wait to try it on some birds, like say, a Snowy Owl. Steve Sanford tanager@bcpl.net Randallstown MD Baltimore County ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================