Camera Corner (What Kind of Camera Do You Use, Vol.2)

Nice! I look forward to seeing more of your pics snake. I'm thinking we will see more of the birds we rarely see here.

pelletory, one of the HUGE joys of living where I do is that with the Continental Divide less than 2 hours away, we get both Pacific Slope and Great Basin birds! I have a pic or three of what I'm pretty sure is a gray flycatcher that one of the employees at Bannack State Park (aka possibly the most beautiful sagebrush I've ever seen...) said had only just been positively identified in the park. I added SEVEN species to my life list that day, and we were only there for half an hour! I so badly want to camp there in mid-May or so...But truthfully, no matter where I go I learn something. Went to a friend's country home about 15 miles away one day and was camera-stalking a call I thought was a weird magpie...turns out the Steller's Jays here sound -remarkably- different from those in my mom's coastal-foothill yard in Oregon. Our Steller's apparently have a 'magpie accent'! Below is the most spectacular of those seven, my first absolutely confirmed sighting--the male Western Tanager that blasted across the road at hood-ornament level just in front of the truck to perch like 12 feet away for its lunch.

Snakadelic, one of the gals in the PNW forum swears by the Canon Elph series of cameras. She says she gets great shots and they're small enough to tuck away in her pocket.

I may do that while I'm waiting to save enough to get my very own digital slr and telephoto . . .

Their beautiful birds snake!

Well, I waited as long as I could and this week I added a Canon 1D Mark IV to my collection. So far I don't see that much of a change over the Mark III, but it does have a 16 MP sensor (the Mark III has 10), and an improved auto focusing system and an unbelieveable ISO range of from 100 up to 100,000. But it looks and feels like an improved Mark III, which for me is enough said since I love the Mark III.

The day the Mark IV arrived it was raining and overcast but of course I had to try it out anyway. This is actually the second shot I took with it. Typically for me, the first shot was OOF.

Dave

Congrats on the new camera Dave! Beautiful shot!

Well Dave without your love for those camera's we wouldn't see such fantastic Bluebird shot's. ;)

Wow! That's a serious magazine shot... in fact it's better than most magazine shots!

Thanks Burd. This one already. seems to amaze me sometimes.

Check this one out from this morning, Watercan.

Awesome!

And here's another from the same session. I don't want to post too many. After all, this a camera thread.

Aw, what the heck, Just one more.

Ok, I won't say anything else... (except another Wow! lol!)

Definitely Wow. Can't wait till your Bluebird thread starts up again.

And we do have a few other birds.

And lastly, how can you resist a look like this?

That is adorable!

Drooling...lol

Awesome shots Dave...camera envy...

Dave you are a canon addict. we need to get you in a program.

yes, that's the sweetest bird picture ever.

Dave..can we talk.....LOL! Congrats on the new camera!

Congratulations on another new camera Dave. Your photos are already amazing and I do believe the word "addicted" does certainly pertain to you with all your cameras. That's okay though, I enjoy seeing all those pictures!

Yeah, I gotta get back to Bannack! Holy cow, the bluebirds are *gorgeous*, Dave! Now that I know a little about my settings, I can't WAIT to get up above 6,000 feet again--not tough when I live at well over 3,000 :). Mountain bluebirds...oh, how I covet a clear photo of a mountain bluebird! And one of my neighbors just offered the use of a tent, pretty much the only serious camping equipment we were missing...Bannack in May is looking better & better! It's a shame we're all so scattered; a several-day 'birding party' at the gorgeous camping area there would be amazing, and rates are something like $15 a night if you're from out of state. Outhouses, grills, parking spaces, no power or running water, ghost town on site (pic below), creek on site provides *awesome* reed & brush backgrounds for bird shots as do the sagebrush-on-stony-soil low hills.

Wow love that Montana countryside snakeadelic!

Have a new Canon 400mm f5.6 L arriving Thursday, hopefully it will be nice out this weekend. :)

It is beautiful!!

I think I could manage all except no running water. :-)

I don't do outhouses anymore! :(

Congrats on the new lens Burd!

Anymore???

Congrats Burd!!

Things I won't do at this point in my life...

sleep in a tent
sleep in a sleeping bag
sleep on an air mattress
Use Outhouses...
Get up before 7 am...there are exceptions to this one.... occasionally


I did my fair share of all of these and refuse to do them again!! LOL

I could do the air mattress, the tent, no electricity and the early hours. That's where I draw the line though. :-)

Never used UPS next day air before... got the lens this morning around 9am, 29hrs not to bad.
Didn't have a whole lot of time to use it but my Tamron 1.4 teleconverter works with the lens and It still has auto-focus.
Lens does not have IS, but with good light and on the tripod I,m hoping it won't be a real big issue.
Have 2 shots I took with the lens..only cropped them. Not great though, poor light and back-lit.

2nd

Time for a new thread.

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1080645/

Help! I am a 78 year old female who is not to clever about cameras------but love making pictures of my garden------and my blue birds when they are still. My old camera is about gone, and I must find another. But, I want the most basic type-------so that I just look through the lens and snap a picture. Does anyone have a suggestion for what I should buy? I now have a Nikon (5.0 Mega Pixels-----8xZoom---electronic viewfinder).

Thanks for any advice
Shirleyd

Hi Shirley, How are you? How about we take this discussion over to the Camera Forum. There will be a lot more people over there to help you over there. Another thing to do is to let them know what your budget is so they can better help you. Here is a link to the Camera Forum: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/f/camera/all/

Good Luck! :-)

Pelletory-----I think that is a great idea-------------now, to see if I can figure out how to do this. I clicked on the camera forum that you mentioned----but was sort of overwhelmed by all that I saw. Do you have any suggestions on exactly what I do? Also, the price range should not be over $300----

Thanks,
Shirleyd

Hi Shirley, Just start a new thread with a title of "Need Advice on Camera Choice"
In the message part start by telling them what camera you used to have. Then state your price range and basically what type of camera you would like to have. Be sure to tell them what type of pictures you normally take (landscapes etc). They might have more questions for you but they'll be able to point you in the right direction showing you the choices you have. If you need anymore help let me know. Pelle

Pelle---thanks---will try it----

Olympus C5050 point and shoot camera
Canon XSi 450D dslr camera
Canon 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 EFS IS lens
Sigma 50-500mm f4.0-6.3 EX APO-DG lens

I have a Nikon D5000 w/a Tamron 18-270mm lense.