On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 02:07:24PM -0600, steve harley wrote: > <https://www.dropbox.com/s/zzfzb014ja641qw/50pixel_heron.png> > > okay sorry for the tease, the lens was 15mm, and the distance around > 30 yards, so the bird is about 50 pixels long, shown at 300%; the > only way i found the bird in the image was by scanning the image at > extreme zoom and noticing the classic heron "gaff-rigged" wing shape > > 15mm has been good practice, but i'm putting the 50mm back on the > camera for a while
HEh! reminds me of the time I was riding back to work after lunch on the Coyote Creek Trail (not 100m from where John, Aahz and I were shooting) and saw a bobcat walking up the trail. I had my camera with me, around my neck, and was able to turn it on, and using autofocus get a couple of photos of the bobcat before it left the trail. Of course, the lens I had on the camera was a zoom, at full wide, so even though I had my camera, and in theory a suitable lens mounted, I wasn't able to extend it to telephoto mode, so my photo was just about clear enough to prove that I had seen either a bobcat, or a really, really big housecat. The only other time I've gotten a good view of a bobcat was heading to the lumber yard one morning, there was one sitting in a field between the driveway to the lumber yard and the creek. That, of course, was the only time that I went to the lumber yard without grabbing my camera and putting it in the car. The shots I got with my phone, again, were just good enough to more or less prove that I had actually seen a bobcat. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
