Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 21:12:36 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Rob Gibbs Subject: Re: Scope/Digital Camera Snowy Owl Pictures MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I birded with a guy in trinidad a number of years ago that had fashioned a board attached to his tripod that held his scope (a Leopold compact model) and a video camera mounted (via the screw hole for attaching it to a tripod) to perfectly focus through the scope. The results were incredible!!!!! A bell bird calling with it's head filling the view, extremely sharp and with sound to boot. It sounds like this is what you need! It was really no more cumbersome than the scope w/o the attachment. A digital camera would be even more compact. Good Luck. -- Rob Gibbs Damascus, MD robgibbs@starpower.net Kathy Neugebauer wrote: > Maryland Birds & Birding wrote: > > > > 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. > > Steve: > > It takes practice, practice, practice. My second set came out blurry, and hoping to have the technique down as we head for a birding trip to Costa Rica in February. Having frozen fingers doesn't help either, and hoping to have some sort of "holder" fashioned to keep the camera steady. > > Good luck! If anything this technique should help in id'ing/documenting rarities from our birding excursions. > > Ain't technology wonderful? > > Kathy Neugebauer > Olney, MD (Montgomery County) > kaneuge@cs.com > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================