New Digital Camera

I have purchased an 8 Mega-pixel digital SLR camera. With a 70-300mm image-stablized zoom lens, a doubler, and the corection for digital cameras, this is equivalent to the 1000-mm F/11 Celestron C90 I was using with a Nikon 90S and film. The big advantages are the high quality digital recording and the image stabilization. At this full, 20-power equivalent magnification, the camera suffers from the same small depth of field and need for manual focus as my old camera. I have discovered, however, that the auto-focus that is available when the doubler is omitted is very accurate and powerful. I suspect that I will use the camera without the doubler much of the time. A couple of comparizon pictures are below. There is also a scenery lens that came with the camera which I used for the picture of my father and some of the pictures of my God daughter and my cats.

Bird pictures taken with the new digital camera in late 2006 and 2007 are now shown on separate New Mexico pages for Socorro County and the rest of New Mexico.

In the table below, a click on the picture in the left column will get you to a larger picture. A click on the right-hand thumbnail, will get you to the full unaltered jpeg as recorded by the camera.

Pictures with my new camera

Pictures in Ithaca and Montezuma NWR, October

Larger pix	what	Original pix
	Kenneth Greisen, Ithaca
	Cedar Waxwing with doubler Sapsucker Woods, Ithaca
	Belted Kingfisher, no doubler Montezuma NWR for rest of this set
	Belted Kingfisher, with doubler
	Great Blue Heron, no doubler
	Green-winged Teal, with doubler
	Rusty Blackbird, no doubler
	Canada Geese, no doubler
	Bald Eagle, no doubler
	Bald Eagle, with doubler

Pictures in Albuquerque, December, 2006

Larger pix	what	Original pix
	My God-daughter (age 3) at Albuquerque Zoo no doubler in any of following pix
	"wild" Wood Duck at Albuquerque Zoo, little zoom
	Snow Leopard at Albuquerque Zoo
	Peacock at Albuquerque Zoo
	Springbok at Albuquerque Zoo
	Springbok at Albuquerque Zoo, little zoom
	gorilla baby at Albuquerque Zoo
	gorilla at Albuquerque Zoo
	My God-daughter (age 3) at home
	My God-daughter (age 3) at home

Pictures in New Mexico, early 2007

Larger pix	what	Original pix
	GrrFriend at home, January 3, 2007
	Natalia at home, January 3, 2007
	Natalia at home, January 3, 2007
	Flounder, Albuquerque Aquarium, February 25, 2007, 18-55mm lens
	pretty fish, Albuquerque Aquarium, February 25, 2007, 18-55mm lens
	jelly fish, Albuquerque Aquarium, February 25, 2007, 18-55mm lens
	jelly fish, Albuquerque Aquarium, February 25, 2007, 18-55mm lens
	shark, Albuquerque Aquarium, February 25, 2007, 18-55mm lens
	Puffer fish, Albuquerque Aquarium, February 25, 2007, 18-55mm lens
	God daughter with her father looking at flounder, Albuquerque Aquarium, February 25, 2007, 18-55mm lens
	God daughter, Albuquerque Botanical Gardens farm, February 25, 2007, 18-55mm lens
	God daughter with her father, Botanical Gardens farm, February 25, 2007, 18-55mm lens
	God daughter with her father's binoculars, Bosque del Apache NWR, February 27, 2007, 70-300mm lens
	Father of my God daughter, Bosque del Apache NWR, February 27, 2007, 70-300mm lens