As promised in my recent “Digiscoping with a DSLR Camera” entry, I have news to report regarding lens effectiveness for digiscoping using the Canon EOS 40D DSLR camera and Swarovski’s UCA. When we last left off, I had noted that the Canon EF 35mm f/2.0 lens might hold some promise as possibly being a lens […]
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Photo Interlude: Montezuma Castle
In honor of the debut of Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan’s The National Parks, America’s Best Idea on PBS, a couple images of one of the many places we still have thanks to such a system of preservation being in place. Montezuma Castle National Monument, near Camp Verde, Arizona; one of the four sites that […]
Digiscoping with a DSLR Camera
While the benefits of intra-ocular lens replacement surgery (commonly performed to correct cataracts) are significant – astonishingly sharp color perception, 20/20 or approximate vision – one minor draw-back from it is the loss of close focus vision. In my own case, even with the fact that the lenses implanted into my eyes are flexible and […]
A Ranger Everyone Should Know
One of the most surprising things I discover when I talk with other nature enthusiasts is how many of them were “first generation;” that is, not coming from parents who were interested in nature study per se but who at least provided opportunities for their children to learn about it themselves. I am one of […]