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Charles Schuler - 10 Mar 2005 01:09 GMT

Take what the naysayers post about this lens with a grain of salt. Most of
them have never owned it, which is obvious from their comments. This shot
was taken in the Florida Everglades under cloudy conditions and from a
crowded tram ride that was bumping and jerking and stopping and starting.
In other words, a poor environment for photographs. Nevertheless, the lens
performed very well:

http://home.comcast.net/~charlesschuler/wsb/media/291308/site1056.jpg

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Alan Browne - 10 Mar 2005 15:39 GMT

> Take what the naysayers post about this lens with a grain of salt. Most of
> them have never owned it, which is obvious from their comments. This shot
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> http://home.comcast.net/~charlesschuler/wsb/media/291308/site1056.jpg

Not bad at all. Detail in whites is a bit gone.

What focal length were you at?

Can you post a full size?

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Alan

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Charles Schuler - 10 Mar 2005 22:18 GMT

> Not bad at all. Detail in whites is a bit gone.

Thanks. Those birds are snow white and there isn't much detail. Looks the
same to the eye.

> What focal length were you at?

300 mm

> Can you post a full size?

When I edit my website (Comcast is stingy with their memory allocations; so
I'll have dump some shots).

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Brian C. Baird - 10 Mar 2005 22:45 GMT

> Not bad at all. Detail in whites is a bit gone.

Given the exposure range of the photograph, I think he did a pretty good
job balancing it.

I was pissed the other day for not having my camera with me. Snow, high
winds and who's fishing in the pond? A Great Blue Heron. Would have
made an interesting, if not spectacular, shot.

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JPS@no.komm - 10 Mar 2005 23:13 GMT

>> Not bad at all. Detail in whites is a bit gone.

>Given the exposure range of the photograph, I think he did a pretty good
>job balancing it.

>I was pissed the other day for not having my camera with me. Snow, high
>winds and who's fishing in the pond? A Great Blue Heron. Would have
>made an interesting, if not spectacular, shot.

Same thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago. I was walking along
the Bronx River, just outside the Bronx Zoo, on my lunch break, and
there was a Great Blue fishing from the ice in a marshy area just below
a lookout, for mummichogs or banded killies. Came back with my camera a
couple of days later, and no herons to be found.

Last summer I saw a Great Egret "spear" a rat with his bill; again, no
camera. A brilliant male Ringnecked Pheasant on top of someone's
mailbox; no camera.

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Brian C. Baird - 11 Mar 2005 04:15 GMT

> Last summer I saw a Great Egret "spear" a rat with his bill; again, no
> camera. A brilliant male Ringnecked Pheasant on top of someone's
> mailbox; no camera.

That's why I have the A95 now - so I'll at least have SOMETHING with me.

But little point and shoots aren't too good at capturing birds unless
they're very, very tame or very, very dead.

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JPS@no.komm - 12 Mar 2005 15:05 GMT

>> Last summer I saw a Great Egret "spear" a rat with his bill; again, no
>> camera. A brilliant male Ringnecked Pheasant on top of someone's
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>But little point and shoots aren't too good at capturing birds unless
>they're very, very tame or very, very dead.

I got burned again yesterday, for not having a camera. I went to the
Zoo again, and went to The World of Birds. The display of local birds
had a nuthatch on a tree right next to the edge of the opening to the
display. It hopped around the back, so I snuck up and stuck my head in,
thinking that whenever it came around the tree and saw me, it would
become startled and fly into the display. When it re-appeared, it did
not fly, and I made a clucking noise with my tongue and the back of my
teeth, and it came right up in my face, about 5 inches away, pointing
its little beak up at me and looking straight into my eyes. I could
only think of the close-ups I could have had. Most of my nuthatch
pictures are from a telephoto persective; none close-up with a wider
lens. I could have held a P&S at arm's length and got us both in the
picture, face-to-face.

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Voigt Lander - 15 Mar 2005 02:10 GMT

>>Last summer I saw a Great Egret "spear" a rat with his bill; again, no
>>camera. A brilliant male Ringnecked Pheasant on top of someone's
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> But little point and shoots aren't too good at capturing birds unless
> they're very, very tame or very, very dead.

^^^^^^^^^^
That's why you should suppliment your A95 with a '45 :-)

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