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Playing with the zoom lens (you patriotic Americans should like this)

So I look out the window at the house up the road, and in the tree I call the "Eagle tree" I see two black specs. I call it the Eagle Tree because there are always eagles in it - one time I counted eight in the one tree, but the camera batteries were dead. This time the battery was charged, so I decided to take some pics using the zoom lens and tripod. I'm strictly a point-and-shoot kind of guy, so the only setting on the camera I fiddled with was the zoom. It's a Fuji S3100 3.1MP camera with 6X optical + 4X digital (total 10X) zoom. I took all the pics at full 3.1 MP resolution but reduced 'em to 640X480 size to upload here.

Pic #1 is a wide shot (no zoom). You can barely make out two black specs in the leafless tree.

Pic #2 is a 6X zoom shot - the most the camera can do before going into digital zoom mode

Pic #3 is the full 10X zoom. I'm actually quite surprised at how well this shot came out - I give full credit to the tripod
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Playing with the zoom lens (you patriotic Americans should like this)

Reply #1 –
Cool !! I had read not long ago that they took the Bald eagle off of the endangered animail list.
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Playing with the zoom lens (you patriotic Americans should like this)

Reply #2 –
Nice shots Carm! You have to be loving it right now, your area looks beautiful! We just started the fall color turn around here.

Playing with the zoom lens (you patriotic Americans should like this)

Reply #3 –
Nice Shots !
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Playing with the zoom lens (you patriotic Americans should like this)

Reply #4 –
Hey, those are great shots!

I love my Fuji S7000 - excellent digital camera IMO.
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Reply #5 –
Cool :D
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Playing with the zoom lens (you patriotic Americans should like this)

Reply #6 –
Nice pics. Do you live near the water?

Playing with the zoom lens (you patriotic Americans should like this)

Reply #7 –
very cool.
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Reply #8 –
Quote from: softtouch;182483
Nice pics. Do you live near the water?

I live in Nova Scotia - everywhere is near the water :D The Minas Basin, home of the world's highest tides, is actually about 6 miles away as the crow (or eagle, as it were) flies. I do have a river and a brook bordering my property, and gaspereaux run in them, so that's probably why there are always so many eagles about. There are a lot of eagles all over NS - those of you in the northeastern USA can thank us for every eagle you see (eagles were taken from NS and reintroduced to the northern USA a few decades ago after DDT killed 'em all off)

Aeromike: I do love this area. The leaves here started to change in mid September and they're just about to start peaking - as you can see in those pics there's still a lot of green left to change. That Eagle tree must be dying - it was the last to get leaves in spring and as you can see it's the first to lose 'em in fall.
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Playing with the zoom lens (you patriotic Americans should like this)

Reply #9 –
Nice!  We saw quite a few while vacationing in Colorado.  It's pretty amazing to see one in person in the wild.

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Reply #10 –
That is impressive, and truly a beautiful place you live in. I hope to find a nice place in Colorado...Jealousy man haha.
Quote from: vinnietbird;182389
Cool !! I had read not long ago that they took the Bald eagle off of the endangered animail list.


Yeah, they took them off of the endangered species list. They repopulated enough I guess.
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Reply #11 –
There were two in the tree again today - I took a pic, but can't find my camera card reader at the moment...
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Playing with the zoom lens (you patriotic Americans should like this)

Reply #12 –
Bald eagles are beautiful I took a cruise threw the inner passage of Alaska. I was in awe of its beauty and I could get enough of the eagles. Man am I jealous of you view/backyard.
I have a 35mm w a 200mm lens and I don’t think I could zoom in like that I’m thinking that’s digital. 
What size lens is that cause that is some zoom ,digital or film?

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Reply #13 –
It is a digital camera with 6X optical, 4X digital zoom. The lens is 36mm.

Here's the pic I took yesterday, and a pic of the camera itself with lens info. This pic didn't come out as well because it was cloudy and drizzling, so the lighting was all screwed up. I was wrong about the camera in my first post, BTW - it is 4.0MP, not 3.1. I assumed it was a 3.1 because of the model name (S3100) but "4.0 Megapixel" is printed on the side of the lens.
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Playing with the zoom lens (you patriotic Americans should like this)

Reply #14 –
Quote from: vinnietbird;182389
Cool !! I had read not long ago that they took the Bald eagle off of the endangered animail list.


I actually saw one this summer out here.  I was kinda shocked by it.  It had made a nest in a tree along a major highway.  First time I ever saw one in the wild out here.
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