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Re: Mango question and cameras



Hi Carolinabirders,

Continuing the amazing heap of western vagrants in the southeast this 
winter, a Cassin's Kingbird has been found near Fort Walton Beach, 
Florida. This is in the extreme western part of the panhandle.

On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 THam9281@aol.com wrote:
> 
> I just suffered through an email crash and subsequent reload. In doing so, I 
> lost my saved mail file of all the mango postings, which included Lori's 
> phone number and directions to see the mango.
> 
> Can anyone drop me a note with driving directions and the recent post about 
> where best to sight from?

For anyone who needs another look at Carolinabirds posts, whether your 
computer crashed and lost everything, or you just deleted one particular 
message that you needed, there is a complete archive accessible from Will 
Cook's website at http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook/ or more directly at 
http://www.ibiblio.org/~pardo/birds/
Virtually every message posted to carolinabirds from August 3, 1999 
through today is contained in here, in its entirety.

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Rob G wrote:
>
>   Am wondering if those single-use pocket cameras that I see
> everywhere are worthless for nature photography or useful for
> occasional shots(tired of dragging along a bulky camera
> and lens on casual walks). Thanks for any suggestions,

Depends what you're using the photos for. Those cameras are fine for 
photo albums and other such memories. On the other hand, for 
presentations like slide shows, they often yield pictures that are too 
grainy or too dark. If you try to scan them onto web pages, your ability 
to crop out and magnify small interesting parts of the photo will be very 
poor compared to normal cameras. They're fine for landscape shots and 
things that stand still, like flowers, but usually terrible for 
relatively distant moving targets like birds. Not to mention, disposable 
things are terribly un-PC...

Still, if it's a choice between a throwaway camera and none at all, it 
probably would pay to have one. In particular, if you happened to come 
across some strange bird that you either couldn't ID or ID'd as a rarity, 
a bad photo is occasionally still good enough for the state records 
committee to identify the critter when even the best written description 
doesn't satisfy them.

Good birding,

Josh



Joshua S. Rose
Duke University
Department of Biology (Zoology, R.I.P.)

jsr6@acpub.duke.edu
http://www.duke.edu/~jsr6/