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  1. deborahp

    Question on in-camera sharpening

    This is one of the first images taken with a new D70s and Sigma 170-500 APO at 500mm. It looks peculiar, overly smoothed, as though it was processed with noise reduction software, but it wasn't. It's a 100% crop with no post-processing at all other than adding text and the cropping. Possibly...
  2. deborahp

    ? Bluebirds

    I've never seen these before, the pair was here briefly this morning, then left. Seen through binoculars, both have dove grey heads, blue wings, and rufous breasts. The grey heads + solid blue wings don't exactly match either male or female Eastern Bluebird in Sibley's or Peterson's eastern...
  3. deborahp

    Red-tailed hawk

    While out stalking wild turkeys with a point-and-shoot (Fuji S5100) + Tcon 17, I couldn't resist trying to catch this red-tailed hawk soaring overhead hundreds of feet away. I'm fairly certain on the ID, I got the top of its bright red tail in another shot. Couldn't keep up with it with...
  4. deborahp

    Sigma 24-70mm F2.8 EX DG Macro

    Sigma 24-70mm F2.8 EX DG Macro Does anyone have any experience with this lens? It was introduced in January 2005 and Sigma says: To achieve an F2.8 aperture at all focal lengths, it employs three aspherical Lens to provide optimum aberration compensation. Two Special Low Dispersion (SLD) glass...
  5. deborahp

    Nikon D70 missing body cap

    There's a used Nikon D70 for sale on eBay that's shown without the body cap. I emailed to ask how long it had been that way, hoping the cap was included in the sale and had only been off for a few minutes. But no, the cap is missing and has to be replaced. The camera will be shipped in a...
  6. deborahp

    EOS 350D metering

    Digital Review says the Digital Rebel XT doesn't have spot metering. The Canon website says: "Metering Patterns: With the Digital Rebel XT, you have a choice of whether to use 35-zone AF point evaluative metering, partial metering at the center of the image or centerweighted averaged metering...
  7. deborahp

    Carolina Wren?

    At first this bird looked like a fledging, but that seems unlikely this time of year (?) so perhaps it had a run-in with a predator. At first it was trying to prune its feathers, scratching on the bark of the log, and shaking itself as though it was wet, but then it started hopping around in...
  8. deborahp

    Northern Flicker

    I was taking general yard photos without a teleconverter or tripod handy when this noisy woodpecker-like bird landed in the top of a 35' oak tree. It was backlit, so all I could see was a dark silhouette and was amazed to find all these wonderful spots after the images were downloaded...
  9. deborahp

    Focus or motion problem or both?

    I'm playing with a new Olympus Tcon 17 lens and having problems, possibly due in part to the rainy overcast weather plus the subjects being under a shade tree; the exposure times are much longer than I'd prefer. However, the subjects also appear not to be in focus. In both instances the center...
  10. deborahp

    Filter kit question

    I ordered a teleconverter and three filters (Hoya circular polarizer, Hoya UV, and Tiffen 2x ND) individually from Adorama, and as sometimes happens, one of the salesmen phoned to sell me more filters in the form of a Tiffen kit (enhancing, 812 warming, circular polarizing, & UV) plus the 2x ND...
  11. deborahp

    Beginners' luck

    This is cropped from the very first exposure from my new Finepix S5100, at maximum zoom. There's not much right about it, backlit by the sun and camera crooked, but I think I'm going to like a camera that can catch a hummingbird's tongue from over twenty feet away :D
  12. deborahp

    Replacing tripod head

    This is the top of a Slik 500G tripod I've had for 20 years or more and the head is broken. I don't know what kind of mount I need. The Bogen - Manfrotto 3025 3D Junior Head looks good, but it says it the 'connect to tripod' is "3/8"-16" while the Slik SH-704E Compact & Light 3-Way Pan Tripod...
  13. deborahp

    Teleconverter question

    I've been considering the 1.75x Canon TC-DC52A Tele Converter Lens, but have only found two product reviews on it, both at Amazon. One says "Only for use at maximum zoom setting. Essentially it makes your zoom camera a fixed-focal length camera." and the other says "Okay, I attached the lense...
  14. deborahp

    Northern Harrier questions

    An exceedingly loud bird of prey calling brought me running out of the house today, but it was obscurred by tree tops before I could get a photo. It was circling slowly about 50' up directly overhead, but also moving northeast at the same time, along the edge of open pasture and woods (in a...
  15. deborahp

    Hi, everyone...

    ... I'm also part of the hummingbird migration, and just joined yesterday. I live on a small farm and enjoy watching all the birds here, among them wild turkey, quail, red-tailed hawks, turkey vultures, purple martins, woodpeckers, goldfinches, cardinals, and many others I've yet to identify...
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