Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:35:21 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Steve Sanford Subject: Scope/Digital Camera Snowy Owl Pictures MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I finally got out to the Snowy Owl turf and tried out the photo technique that Kathy Neugebauer brought to my attention in her post from about Dec 15 - namely, to just hold a digital camera up to a scope lens and shoot. My pictures are posted at http://www.geocities.com/bfbooby/SnowyOwl.html These shots are not especially outstanding compared to the others previously referred to, but I put them up for people interested in seeing another example of how this absurdly simple technique works. And this was my first try. The owl was about 50 yards away or more. If it had been as close as when I first saw it a few weeks ago, the pictures could be pretty dazzling. Maybe next weekend. My digital camera is an Olympus D-460 Zoom (1.3 megapixels, about $400) with a Kowa TSN 821 scope using a 27X "long eye relief" (i.e. big wide lens at your eye) eyepiece. The camera was set at about 2X optical zoom. It seems that the picture will be focused if the image thru the scope is focused. Unfortunately only the low-res liquid crystal viewfinder gives you a thru-the-lens view. As a reminder, per Daryl Olson's post Dec 16: "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." Thanks again Kathy and Daryl. Steve Sanford tanager@bcpl.net Randallstown MD (Baltimore Co.) http://www.geocities.com/bfbooby/index.html ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================