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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2006 20:47:26 GMT
TT
I've got a Canon Powershot S2 that I bought earlier this year. Very good camera - I'd definitely recommend it. It's not a digital SLR but it's much more than a point & shoot digital camera. 5m pixels, 12x optical zoom, 4x digital zoom. I expect at some point you've seen some pictures I've taken with it. I'm very impressed with it's versatility.
Regards
FA
PS - You still got that snow mate ? Haven't seen any over here yet ~ thought you were going to send it our way !!
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Post by torontotrini on Oct 18, 2006 21:16:06 GMT
Yes; I've seen your garden pics FA, and they were excellent. I'll take a look at that Canon Powershot S@. Don't know how much it costs around here. I'm still waffling on buying a digital, but everytime I see great garden photos like these by C3D's and on the other board, I slide a bit closer to buying one. What I like about the SLRs though is that they are so versatile with the interchangeable lenses; especially for taking pics of wildlife that you can't get as close to as you would like. And the micro/macro lenses for real close close-ups. We'll see. Maybe if I drop enough hints I might get someone to get me one as a Christmas present.
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Post by chickadeedeedee on Oct 20, 2006 2:41:58 GMT
Hi. Sorry!  I didn't mean to ignore all of you. Things have been a bit hectic at home recently. Thanks for the lovely compliments. LOL!! Rita. Right you are!  Torontotrini, it is a Canon SLR and a Canon 500mm f/4L lens for some of the pictures. Sorry. I don't know which camera took which photographs and the lenses and all that technical stuff. The best quality photographs are when the camera is steady like on a tripod and just waiting for the right moment to appear. I don't know if you have seen the photographs of my garden. They were taken with a 35mm Leica and I scanned the prints and loaded them to the computer and then to Photobucket. Some of my bird pictures are from the 35mm Leica too and scanned. This is one of the scanned photographs. May I introduce you to my Kramer:  Personally I am afraid of the high tech digitals primarily because I tripped on the garden hose while carrying one and fell on it. It died instantly. The camera never knew what happened. LOL! I leave the digitals to my husband. I have hummingbird feeders but find that they mostly ignore them as they rather feed on the flowers from the Mimosa / Silk Tree. We have at least 6 mature flowering trees and last year I counted 18 hummers at one time! There were three nesting pairs in our garden too. Well, I found three nests. There may have been more. Yes, FA. The Powershot takes very nice photographs. Good close-up details. A cyber friend from California takes pictures of his tropical plants in stunning detail with his Powershot. ChickaDDD |
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Post by torontotrini on Oct 20, 2006 19:39:19 GMT
Thanks C3D. I like the versatility of the SLR and you can keep expanding what you can do by getting diffeent lenses. I don't have a scanner. I think I would much prefer to put the money I would spend on a scanner into getting a good digital.
Hi FA. I checked out the Canon Supershot this morning. I saw 2 versions. One was $398 and the other was $449 - plus taxes. That would be in the region of 200 pounds if we take an exchange rate of 1 pound to about $2.10.
We got lucky with the big snow. The storm changed direction enough that we only got the fringe of it. Areas around were not so lucky. Some of them got as much as 40cm of snow; power lines got knocked out etc. I understand that there are places that are still without electricity. But don't worry, there's lots more where that came from so I'll send you some.
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Post by Chuckles on Oct 20, 2006 21:24:37 GMT
C3D-I got a picture of the baby Sparrow that was close to my dog, not brill because I had to take it over the back door.  Have a feeling it may have been poorly, it kept scuttering around the back of pots rather than flying off when I went outside, so OH caught it and put it in a bush. Unfortunately have not seen it since. Poor thing. Found some other garden visitors pics too, Taking shade when we had all that hot weather in the summer     |
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Post by chickadeedeedee on Oct 21, 2006 0:51:41 GMT
Hello Toronto.  Mmmmmmmmm. SNOW!!! I **LOVE** it. The more the better! If you have a 35mm camera, you may have the option of having your photographs made into a digital CD as well as prints when you have a new roll to develop. That saves a lot of time with the scanning method. One day, I too will become brave enough to purchase another "sacrificial" digital camera. LOL! ~~Poor camera!~~ Oh Busy Bee. I love your photographs! Perhaps the baby sparrow went into hiding and is being looked after by his parents until he knows how to fly? LOVE the frog picture! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have to tell you a funny story: This morning we were awakened by one of the cats playing on the bed. What the heck? It is 3:15-ish in the morning! What is the cat doing? This particular cat is known to play with seemingly imaginary things but this play time went on too long. My OH turned on the lights and started to laugh. The cat had a frog on the bed! The frog must have been in one of the pots I had brought inside. LOL! So the frog was rescued from the cat, unhurt, and placed in the bath tub until a more reasonable hour of the morning. The frog was released outside around 8:00am. No doubt went to see his friends and told them all about the adventures of the night. 3D Chick |
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Post by Susie Snowdrop on Oct 21, 2006 1:02:23 GMT
Hi C3D,
What time is it in your neck of the woods?!
Just been looking at your wonderful pics of the birds! My brother is a very keen bird watcher over here so I've saved them all to show him! They're absolutely wonderful! Thanks!
S x
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Post by Plocket on Oct 21, 2006 8:57:44 GMT
What lovely pictures Beejay - I particularly like the frog!
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Post by Chuckles on Oct 21, 2006 9:04:59 GMT
What lovely pictures Beejay - I particularly like the frog! Thanks Plocket.......BUSYBEE  |
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Post by Plocket on Oct 21, 2006 9:55:18 GMT
I'm losing it! I knew it was Busybee when I was writing the message but it came out Beejay!!! SORRY! ;D
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Post by torontotrini on Oct 21, 2006 12:27:37 GMT
Lovely pics BusyBee. Love the frog - smart guy - but I'm a sucker for butterflies. Thanks for that tip C3D, about getting digital from regular 35m film. I'll definitely look into it; see what it costs. If it's a reasonable price and good quality I may not have to buy a digital since I already have a pretty good SLR with a few nice lenses. And you can have all the snow you like. I'll just keep a bit for over the Christmas season to enhance the spirit then send the rest to you. BTW I don't know if you're a hockey fan, but I saw our Maple Leafs beat your Blue Jacket guys in Columbus last night. Not that I'm rubbing anything in, you understand.  The day has started a bit more promising here weather wise than the forecasters had predicted. I'm going to head over to the home base of a mail order supplier that isn't too far from me. I'm on their mailing list and they seem to have a nice looking end of season clearance sale going. A couple of interesting clems and some nice looking frits have caught my eye, so I think I'll go check them out. Here's their site if you feel like browsing. If anyone sees anything you want me to pick up for you let me know, eh?. ;D www.gardenimport.com/specials.php |
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Post by chickadeedeedee on Oct 22, 2006 2:23:38 GMT
Hi Susiesnowdrop. It is just about 10:25PM here. Think I might camp out at Photobucket and load more pics. when I'm done at GW. Hey there Toronto. It usually costs me $7.00 to $8.00US to develop a 24 pic. 35mm roll of film. Add another $2.00US and I have a digital CD as well. ;D Not too bad, ehh? Thanks for the snow. Very much appreciated! Can you please limit the Arctic blasts we get though? Those Alberta Clippers really freeze the giblets here. LOL! That the Maple Leafs beat the Blue Jackets comes as no surprise. You Canadians are born with a hockey stick in your hands and skates on your feet aren't you? Don't deny it. When I was living in Ontario, Canada I'd see the youngest of children, barely able to walk it seems, yet they were fantastic on their skates and always with the hockey stick. Mmmmmmmmm. S-N-O-W! ChickaDDD |
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Post by torontotrini on Oct 22, 2006 12:52:37 GMT
Hi C3D. Being only a transplanted Canadian, I wasn't born with those skates on my feet. I grew up on soccer and cricket in Trinidad. I've managed to learn to skate a bit though. I can circle the rink a couple of times without ending up on my keester too often, ;D but I wouldn't stand a chance in a hockey game with 3-year olds.  I love to watch the game though. |
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Post by chickadeedeedee on Oct 22, 2006 14:01:01 GMT
Holy Kamolee! Trinidad to Canada? That's a bit of a temperature shock isn't it? I moved from St. Kitts (the island) to Guelph in winter and two days later they had one of the worst blizzards in history. I was delivering a calf that morning and needed to go to the truck to get something and my hand froze to the door handle. LOL! If I got on skates I'd need to be stuffed into a plastic bag (or better still, double wrap) and haul me away. I'd break too many body parts. So anyway.... Baby Eastern Screech Owl:  And from my friend in Cuba: Cuban Vireo  Cuban Parrot  ChickaDDD |
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Post by lottielady on Oct 22, 2006 14:44:16 GMT
Oh C3D I love the baby owl! It looks like it disapproved of having the photo taken  LL x |
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Post by torontotrini on Oct 22, 2006 15:49:23 GMT
Holy Kamolee! Trinidad to Canada? That's a bit of a temperature shock isn't it? I moved from St. Kitts (the island) to Guelph in winter and two days later they had one of the worst blizzards in history. I was delivering a calf that morning and needed to go to the truck to get something and my hand froze to the door handle. LOL! If I got on skates I'd need to be stuffed into a plastic bag (or better still, double wrap) and haul me away. I'd break too many body parts. ;D ;D ;D Better you than me ChickaDDD. When I first got here many, many moons ago, it was late September; lovely fall but not too cold. When I saw my first snowfall a couple of months later it was beautiful. Went out into a park to take some pictures and it was grand for about the first 10-15 minutes. Then the wind and the cold set in. Lordie. Even though I was bundled up like a bag of foul smelling garbage, every part of my body froze, went into shock, and started to hurt. I literally ran out of that park into a little convenience store to thaw out. It was only false pride that stopped me short of crying. But hey, I still have the pictures of my first snowstorm. It's been raining all day here, and I have a couple of clems I got yesterday at a nice bargain price that I want to plant before the end of the day. Hope it stops a bit before the day is done. Tomorrow I'll check out that bit about doing digital from 35mm. If it's $8 or thereabouts down your way, it's probably going to be around $12-$15 around here. |
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Post by chickadeedeedee on Oct 22, 2006 22:50:28 GMT
LOL!!! Toronto.... Now you are a bit older and wiser I gather about your thoughts about S-N-O-W. ;D I am older, much older, but not wiser at all. I still LOVE snow. I was born in Ohio so I guess that just makes it better if I enjoy what the weather brings. We are supposed to get snow tonight through maybe Tuesday. Same for you? I'm on the Lake Erie shoreline, 30 miles west of Cleveland. The owl didn't seem to mind getting his picture taken. He always had that "~ I - have -an -attitute~" look on his birdie face but he really was very nice ! Not every day one has an owl on their couch is it? Some more pictures? Have been absolutely swarmed by the feathered visitors in the last few weeks. The House Finches (Carpodacus mexicanus)  have been very busy at the feeders. There have easily been 30-40 House Sparrows at one time as well. Looks like it was a good year for raising their chicks. We had a pair of Fox Sparrows (Passerella iliaca) nesting in our garden this spring.  I have never seen so many of the Black-capped Chickadees (Parus atricapillus)   as have been here this Fall. Doesn't matter where you are in the garden, there seems to be a Chickadee ready to scold you. LOL! Of course with the Chickadees seem to be the White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) Nuthatch  Earlier we saw, rather than just teasingly hear, a Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus):  Some more warblers came through for a visit on their way south. The Yellowthroated Warbler (Dendroica dominica)  isn't usually this far north but there was a small flock briefly feeding. The Cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis) seem to have had successful nestings this year too. Here is a female Cardinal  She isn't the bright red like the male but she certainly shows style. Mmmmmmmmm. SNOW! 3DChick |
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Post by Chuckles on Oct 23, 2006 7:32:37 GMT
More fab pics of your visitors, its as good as watching David Attenborough and his bird programme. ;D
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Post by torontotrini on Oct 23, 2006 15:15:39 GMT
You are very fortunate ChicaDDD. You must be somewhere right along a main migratory route. I wish. I wish. I think the ones around my area have already started heading south. I still get the blue jay coming in (they over winter here), an occasional goldfinch, and a small, very busy looking little fellow that I don't know. Quite a few of them are around, picking at the seeds from my cosmos and a couple of other flower heads. It looks like a chicadee, but I'm not sure. Lots of house sparrows of course. Other than those, it's pretty sparse pickings for us this late into the season.
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Post by chickadeedeedee on Oct 24, 2006 2:34:56 GMT
This is Cookie:  |
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Post by chickadeedeedee on Nov 2, 2006 22:22:21 GMT
Some more feathered visitors from the past week or so ..... White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys)  ------------------------------------------------------------ Golden-crowned Kinglet ( Regulus satrapa)  -------------------------------------------------------------- Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula)  -------------------------------------------------------- Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus)  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2006 20:27:40 GMT
C3D
I hope you don't mind but I've nicked your Blue Jay picture and set it as my desktop wallpaper for a while 'coz it's so nice !
Cheers
FA x
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Post by Juliet on Nov 3, 2006 23:41:20 GMT
Just catching up with this thread ... some more really lovely photos, C3D - I especially love the owl . TT - if you do decide to buy a digital camera, have a look at this site: www.imaging-resource.com/ - I found it really useful when I was looking for one - lots of reviews & you can compare different cameras & also shots taken with different cameras & so on. I ended up getting a Canon powershot too, though not the same one as Andy. |
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Post by chickadeedeedee on Nov 4, 2006 2:59:01 GMT
Glad you liked the Blue Jay picture, FA. This is my wallpaper ....  Kramer, the starling. That is a fabulous link, Juliet! Thanks for posting it. C3D |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2006 11:13:24 GMT
Oooh, I've just noticed that I've got another star.
Cor, woweeeee.
FA x
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2006 17:40:53 GMT
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm........ I don't remember seeing them in MY garden. Oh well ....... C3D You're right, sorry. This thread kinda got a bit sidetracked and off topic. Apologies FA x |
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Post by chickadeedeedee on Nov 7, 2006 0:13:40 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2006 9:07:02 GMT
 pics please keep them coming |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2006 13:22:26 GMT
pics please keep them coming Hear Hear!!! |
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Post by Chuckles on Nov 11, 2006 13:15:15 GMT
At last I managed to get a reasonable photo of 2 of the Sparrows feeding this morning. They are just outside my back door so the photo is taken through the glass. SOmetimes there are about 15 but it's soooooooooo difficult to sneak a photo of them.  |
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I didn't mean to ignore all of you. Things have been a bit hectic at home recently.
I love to watch the game though.
