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Old December 2nd 05, 04:24 AM posted to rec.photo.technique.nature
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Default "Nature's Best" contest and film vs digital

Bill Hilton wrote:
Roger Clark writes ...

this morning at Bosque Del Apache, National Wildlife Refuge,
sunrise, the camera count was: 47 digital cameras, 4 film



You did an actual survey? Must have been a bit slow or did you get
Dick to do it Seriously, this 9-1 ratio is about what I see at
Denali or Katmai or Bosque as well.


Hi Bill,
I did it before sunrise; before good light. Yes, it was at the
crane pond.


This is what it was like at Bosque 10 days ago when I was standing at
(most likely) the same pond trying to shoot them in the cold ...
http://members.aol.com/bhilton665/bo...rane_T5606.jpg
http://members.aol.com/bhilton665/bo...rane_T5633.jpg


Very nice. Looks similar to what I got the last couple of days.
I got a nice fight between 2 sandhills yesterday morning. The only
problem was I had too much focal length (500+1.4; 500 alone would
have been perfect but no time to change).

By the way, I did a battery count: 1 got 1230 images, raw+jpeg, on one
battery charge, plus a bunch of wav audio clips, all on the 1D Mark II
and 500mm. I was shooting with 80x 4GB lexar cards.

Roger