Very nice shot - but I can see what you mean about the crop. Seems a bit too much. I can relate to only having a 400mm at the long end.
-- Best regards, Bruce Friday, April 8, 2005, 7:45:30 PM, you wrote: PS> Checked this one in my bird book. I think I have him identified PS> correctly. It's with the *istD at ISO 800, f11 @ 1000, fill from the PS> Sigma 500DG Super flash. I could have gone to ISO 400 on this one, but PS> most bird shots are in open shade, so I usually keep the camera at 800 PS> when walking through the woods. This is about a 2X crop, so you'll see PS> some digital noise. As Herb pointed out earlier today, a 400 is a bit PS> short for shooting shy little birds in the wild. But it's still fun. At PS> the highest interpolation level from the Adobe RAW converter I end up PS> with about a 40meg image after crop. That still makes the minimum PS> resolution for my stock house, but I'd like to do better. PS> Anyway, enough talk. It's here: PS> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3265548&size=lg
