To take good gerbils pictures I've found you need a good 35mm camera with a "macro" feature to be able to take zoomed picture at about 18 inches away, this is especially essential for taking pup pictures. You also need a flash. I don't have a high quality digital camera, so I don't know about that type of technology. To take a good gerbil picture put them in an enclose space (like stairs landing -- yes I know some will scale the stairs so you'll need a second person to wrangle them). And give them an orienting object such as a box, they're nest box, a child's toy, a basket and focus in on that. Good luck, see my web site for lot's of gerbil pictures. People holding gerbils in hands, arms, shoulders also make great pictures. A good way to take a picture of a whole clan is to remove the nest box while focusing the camera in on that corner of the tank. The whole clan will be glued to the spot for a few minutes. Good luck, Donna ABC Gerbils http://www.geocities.com/abcgerbils/home.html GML Codes� :C for general care, feeding, housing, bedding, etc discussions. :B for breeding discussions that are less genetics intensive :G for long, genetics discussions of the long, "alphabet soup" type :M for meta discussion -- discussion on the group itself. :$ for selling gerbils, wanting to buy gerbils or related information. :I for this is completely irrelevant and "we're just babbling" discussions. :S for information on gatherings and shows. :Z for zoological and scientific postings that do not fit into any other category :E for this relates *only* to exotic species of gerbils
