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Digital Cameras for recording sightings

To: Peter Shute <>
Subject: Digital Cameras for recording sightings
From: Carl Clifford <>
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 11:10:27 +1100
Peter,

With an SLR, you have much greater control over your depth of field, due to your ability to change the aperture. I have 3 SLRs and 2 point and shoots (1 with 24x zoom, 1 a pocket 3x zoom) The point and shoots I use for "quick and dirty" work. If I want to take quality shots, where I have control over depth of field, I use the SLRs.

Thanks for giving us a few laughs anyway.

Cheers,

Carl Clifford


On 06/12/2009, at 1:53 AM, Peter Shute wrote:

This is probably the main thing that causes more difficulty with an SLR than a compact. Because the depth of field is so much smaller, if the focus is a little bit out, it matters uch more.

Apart from that, the main problem as I see it is that lenses for SLRs of equivalent length and speed to those available with the ultra zoom compacts are big and expensive. Many people seem to opt for a 300mm lens to start with, and I think these struggle a bit to beat the image quality of a good compact in many cases (e.g. bird not close, and reasonable light).

Peter Shute

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Subject: Digital Cameras for recording sightings

Depth of field will be less with a DSLR, it's how you get out of focus
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