Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 16:57:17 -0500 Reply-To: darylo@erols.com Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kate or Daryl Subject: Re: Snowy Owl Pictures In-Reply-To: <01d401c06799$92eaea20$d48e13cf@bcpl.net.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > 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. Check out http://www.md.ucl.ac.be/peca/test/a.html which has a lot of great tips on using your digital camera with a scope. Daryl Olson Ashton, Md. darylo@erols.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================