Fred, Shel? He is the luddite in a different thread. This is Stan, I am the early-adopter out here on the bleeding edge of technology...
BTW, I do know the value of standards which conform to the lowest common denominator, and it is after all still unusual for an OS to be able to deal with file names containing spaces. So my comment about the "silly" HTML restrictions was in self-deprecating jest. RE your questions, 1. I am not sure what the birdonawire is, but it is probably an EasternBlueBird (not all that uncommon here in Western Missouri). 2. The cardinal shot (and all of the others) was done with manual focus. I was on the SkyLineDrive in Virginia last week. I was stopped on the road, in the driver's seat, looking through the right-side window at a black bear who was standing upright facing us with his forefeet on a low stone wall at the edge of he road. Maybe 10 feet away. I leaned over my wife (in the passenger seat), held the ist-D plus FA 77mm lens toward that side of the van, and began pushing the shutter button. The autofocus never focused, no shot was taken. Then he moved as though to come toward us, my wife said something to the effect of that she was too near the bear which was headed toward her open window (actually, I think she may have said "oh sh--", I am offering a liberal interpretation.) I wasn't sure how sedentary these birds would be, I wanted to take the picture already and not worry about the AF. Normally I love it, but not for these sort of shots. on 11/18/03 6:41 AM, Fred at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Doug - I have changed to accommodate silly HTML restrictions! (The >> original worked fine on my system...) > > They're not necessarily "silly", Shel. > >> Try: >> http://home.earthlink.net/~smh645/birdOnWire.jpg >> http://home.earthlink.net/~smh645/redTwig.jpg >> http://home.earthlink.net/~smh645/cardinal.jpg [no change] > > Nice photos, Shel. (And useful for me to look at, since these are > among the sort of photos that I often take). A couple of questions, > though: > > 1. In the "birdOnWire", what is the bird? (I'm not familiar with > western US birds at all.) It sort of reminds me of an Eastern > Bluebird.) The 2X-S did a pretty good job on that lens. > > 2. In the "cardinal", was the focusing done manually or > automatically? (With all the branches around, I'm guessing that > autofocus might have been easily fooled.) Nice bokeh. > > Fred, K1FW > >
