I’m taking about birds, insects, plants, you name it! I have seen many high quality observations that I could have never dreamed of taking. I know this mainly depends on the camera but I don’t have that kind of money. The best bird observations I got are these: https://www.inaturalist.org/observat…

I looked at about 20 of his photos going back to 14 years ago, and they were all taken with either a Canon 7D Mk II (mid level DSLR) or 1D Mk III (professional level), often with a lens 600mm or more (very expensive!). If you click on the “i” icon on a photo it shows the EXIF data.

@kmagnacca @royaltyler I forget where I read that, though in the same thread someone said ‘point and shoot indeed’. I guess he was joking. Now that you say it, pictures of him after his death showed Greg with high tech stuff. If you think I should, I can withdraw the comment - I didn’t know Greg per…

If you are interested in inventory work and mainly focus on insects, and maybe plants, I highly recommend the Olympus Tough TG6. Its microscope and stacking functions makes it possible to swiftly record what you find, and together with its built-in led flash, you get a good result even in dark condi…

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[image] kmagnacca: For starters, don’t ever use the zoom on a phone camera. Using the zoom on a phone camera is a good idea if you plan to upload the photo to iNaturalist. The reason is that iNaturalist reduces all photos to under 3 megapixels, but phone cameras have a lot more than this. …

You could crop instead though. But under the assumption of not cropping (which unfortunately few people seem to do), that’s a valid point I guess.

It’s a better quality than cropping.

Greg’s gear was pretty top-of-the-line. I asked him how he managed to lug all that around without tripping himself and he just laughed. But his pics were amazing. This was his set-up for shooting dragonflies during a visit to New Mexico. [Greg and gear]

So good to find someone here mentioning THE FILM @mamestraconfigurata . I also photographed for most of my life using 35mm Chrome films. That kind of color saturation and quality is irreplaceable. But as mentioned above, it was time consuming and required lots of patience. My personal advice for goo…

[image] mazeson: Olympus Tough TG6. Never even heard about it before. Thank you for sharing.

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I mostly used B&W, so had the dubious joy of developing the film myself and using an enlarger!

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