Would you recommend this? I am looking for a new camera that has great focus and distance for iNat of course!
This happened to me when I was trying to photograph a Black and white warbler earlier this week.
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I feel that the quote “it was the best of times (because you saw a warbler) it was the worst of times (why did you do this, camera?)” fits here.
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When I had small enough memory cards that they’d get full often, I would at random times during the day skim through my recent photos and delete any terrible ones right then. I would recommend doing that if your storage gets full of photos you definitely don’t want, and you’re not done using the camera for the day. Just take any chance you get to delete some.
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This is why my phone has no storage.
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I have/had the same kind of problem (although I haven’t run out of storage on my 1TB hardrive - yet). This is a screenshot of an import during culling.
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I live in Mentor, Ohio, and every mascot in this town is a cardinal- and I swear- every single cardinal logo has a yellow beak. This drives me crazy
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You know you are seriously into iNat, when managing your photos becomes a part time job. Requiring back-ups onto a hard-drive that you bought just for this purpose because what if something happens to your account. You tell yourself that every one of those pictures is valuable and a you need 10 photos of that fly.
When your camera is glued to you during bird migration.
When your first reaction to traveling is what nature areas are nearby.
When you can tell the seasons based on your photo album because most of them are of things outside.
When the greatest joy is having your iNat up to date on observations after lagging behind by months.
When you have specialized equipment (GPS, recorder, flash-drives, camera, backup batteries and a powerbank, backup SD card etc) all to handle observations while travelings if power and wifi is not available.
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…when a road-raging cat pulls up beside me in a Cadillac to harass me for promoting my local Cats Indoors program
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If it’s in your budget and you don’t mind a heavy camera, yes, I think it’s excellent.
You know you’re seriously into iNat when, intead of killing that annoying mosquito sitting on your hand you photograph it and turn it into a lifer.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/287059282
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Cool!. How is the reception underwater?
Can’t be much worse than a low place in the forest or the dead zones between home and the nearest city.
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When you inat the flies in your compost.
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When you take photos of ALL dead animals you find. I try to annotate them accordingly. If I have done that correctly, I currently have 233 dead animal observations out of 4504 total animal observations. Therefore, dead animals account for 5% of all my animal observations!
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I’m amazed that you got such a clear photo, when presumably you couldn’t use the hand that the mosquito was on. Are you incredibly dexterous one-handedly, or did you have assistance? (“Quick! grab my camera! Hurry up and take a picture, so I can smack it!”)
If you are one of us for whom mosquito bites are torturously itchy for days, that shows true commitment, indeed!
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I really wanted to photograph some kind of mosquito, so I was willing to ‘sacrifice’ my left hand and look on the walls.
Five minutes later, a mosquito sat on my RIGHT hand, with which I was holding my camera. I knew that little annoying bug was a lifer so… I held my reflex of killing it and, as I’m ambidextrous, I grabbed the camera with my left hand instead and snapped a photo.
As I’m writing this I have an itchy memory of that lifer, BUT, if this observation ever gets RG, it might be good enough to end up on the profile page of the species!
So I can say it’s worth the itch!
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I try to look in my compost bin everytime I go outside. I’ve found some neat things doing that.
I would gladly let any mosquitoes bight me as long as they stayed around long enough for me to photograph them. It’s not much of a sacrifice for me, though. Mosquito bights used to really bug me and itch for days, but now they barely swell and only itch for about ten minutes.
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Indeed
Plus, you might get a bonus observation of a mosquito-borne pathogen. So far, the only two Flaviviridae on iNaturalist are the Dengue Virus and the West Nile Virus, so that leaves a wide-open opportunity to fill in other species in this family such as St. Louis Encephalitis Virus, Japanese Encephalitis Virus, and Zika Virus. Or better, yet, add an as-yet unobserved family, Togaviridae, such as Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus, Western Equine Encephalitis Virus, or Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus.
Hmmm… you know you’re seriously into iNat when you think of horrible diseases in terms of whether they have been observed yet?
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