| This Collared Dove was photographed in my garden, on 27
October 2000, at about 5.30pm.
I used a Fuji FinePix 4700 Zoom digital camera (on the "standard" lens setting; neither zoomed nor set to wide- angle, with automatic focus and exposure, but set to take the largest, highest quality, pictures), on a tripod. The camera was positioned against the 20x eyepiece of a Kowa 611 birding scope, looking through a frankly in-need-of-cleaning, NW-facing, window. The sky was overcast, with the sun setting - light levels were not ideal. The bird table is approx. 7.5 meters from the scope, which was near its closest focus.
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The following three pictures are all from the same original.
The first was resized to 640x480; then cropped slightly:
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This image is cropped directly from the 2400x1800 1,654Kb original:
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| And this is the full- frame version, resized to 640x 480, but not cropped. Note the vignetting in the bottom corners:
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