I shot a Fisher, (aka Fisher Cat), with a what should have been the
proper lens, a 500mm mirror, I wasn't very sharp, looking at the EXIF
data I realize I'd left the focal length set at 24mm for AS. Only got
one shot, before it disappeared behind the tree it was clinging to. You
don't often see them in broad daylight, and they'd just recently
extended their range into Connecticut. Haven't seen any since.
On 4/24/2013 5:26 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
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.
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