Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 04:55:43 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Fran Saunders Subject: Re: Pictures through spotting scopes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Arlene, did you make the attachment or purchase something somewhere? Fran Saunders MOS Web Site Director Silver Spring, MD http://www.MDBirds.org/ webmaster@MDBirds.org Silver Spring, MD ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arlene Ripley" To: Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 10:54 PM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Pictures through spotting scopes | At 08:47 PM 1/10/01, Darlene Valentine wrote: | >I have been reading with great interest the posts about using a digital | >camera with a spotting scope to take bird pictures. Has anyone tried this | >with a regular (non-digital) camera? And if so, what were the results? | | Darlene, | | I've not taken many, but I have some photos of the Kelp Gull that were | taken using my 35mm camera and my Kowa scope. I have an attachment that | holds the camera to the scope (in other words, the camera is not just held | up to the eyepiece of the scope as the digital cameras are). On the same | page are two photos taken with a telephoto lens for comparison. | | http://www.nestbox.com/kegu.htm | | As you can see, the photos through the scope are pretty close to those | taken with the telephoto. | | | | | ///////// Arlene Ripley | | || Calvert County, MD | | 0 || aripley@nestbox.com | | || http://www.nestbox.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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================