Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:53:50 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Benjamin Poscover Subject: Re: Scope/Digital Camera Snowy Owl Pictures MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Steve: I hope I don't prove to be as pain-in-the-neck with this request. If it is too complicated, just don't answer. After reading and seeing the results that you and others have had using digital cameras in photographing birds and sending them to others via the internet, I bought one. It is a Sony Mavica with 1.3 mega pixels. No matter what I have tried to date, I haven't figured out how to get my pictures to configure to my monitor screen. When I try, the pictures are so large that one has to scan up and down and right and left inorder to view the entire result. Thus my questions. How does one configure a digital result to fit one's monitor screen? Further, if time would permit, how did you format the great groupings you had with your owl pictures. Thank you for your time. Ben Poscover Towson MD bposcove@bcpl.net ---- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Sanford" To: Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 6:35 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Scope/Digital Camera Snowy Owl Pictures > 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 > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================