Columns
Gain insights from professional photographers. No matter what the topic, these outdoor photography columns offer plenty of food for thought. Get tips and inspiration from the experts here.
Double Click
 In the neotropics, nocturnal bats fill many of the niches occupied by birds by day. But where birds use their superb sense of sight, bats exploit their specialized sense of hearing to find prey. They produce high-frequency clicking sounds and listen with finely tuned ears for the echoes—then strike.
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The Route
Bike-tour photography is a breeze
 This issue’s column continues my discussion about adventure photography in New Zealand. My latest adventure Down Under was a bike trip across the South Island from the east coast to the town of Te Anau, gateway to Fiordland National Park on the west coast.
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Taming The Skies
Bringing The Sky Down To Earth • Real Real-Estate Images • Extended Autofocus • Film Everywhere, But No Place To Process • Gauging Filter Effects
 My true love is landscape photography and, in particular, I love sunset landscapes. One of the big problems I have in post production is optimizing both the sky and the land (and, sometimes, water).
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Scanning For The Big Print
Keep Scanning That Film • Charge It • Pocket Pro • Comparing Sensors • Volunteer Photographers • Shameless Self-Promotion Department
 Keep Scanning That Film
Q When using a film/slide scanner, what resolution (dpi) should I use to produce good-quality prints in the 8x10 to 11x14 range?
M. Thompson
Via the Internet
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(HD) In A Nutshell
For the D-SLR shooter, there are many factors in shooting HD video
 The still camera and HD video camcorder worlds slowly are starting to converge. The biggest news in the still-photography industry has been the arrival of HD shooting for D-SLR cameras. Last year, Nikon released the D90—a D-SLR that offers a 12.3-megapixel CMOS sensor and the ability to record cinematic-quality movie files at up to 720p HD.
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Conversations With A Tortoise
Discovering what makes the Galápagos so special
 Azure blue water, a ballet of puffy clouds, sand so white it hurts my eyes. Squinting, I scan the beach. I can see 50 seals in one direction and at least that many in the other. A hundred iguana cling to rocks along the tideline. A dozen frigate birds float overhead. Am I dreaming?
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I’ve Been Downsized
Thinning out your gear makes travel photography a whole lot easier
 Despite what we read in the headlines, downsizing isn’t always a bad thing. In fact, in terms of travel photography, it may be something to which you should aspire. Airlines are getting stricter with baggage weight limits and per-piece charges. Many adventure-travel destinations require travel on small airplanes, trains, dugout canoes and bicycles, all with stringent luggage allowances.
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The Poor Man’s Super-Telephoto
Using a tele-extender can give your long lenses even more punch for wildlife and landscape photos
 The lens of choice among the serious pro wildlife photographers I know seems to be the 600mm ƒ/4 super-telephoto. It’s great for subjects that won’t let you get close, is incredibly sharp, and autofocuses quickly and accurately. However, it costs over $7,000. That being just a bit beyond my budget, when I really need “reach,” I turn my $1,200 300mm ƒ/4 lens into a 600mm ƒ/8 by attaching a $300 2x teleconverter between the lens and camera body.
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The Lowdown On Zooms
Digital And Optical Zooms • How Many Clicks Do You Get? • The Color Of sRGB And Adobe RGB (1998) • Film Vs. Digital Vs. Sensor Size...Again
My son has a digital point-and-shoot camera with an 18x zoom, but when you zoom to the extreme end, the viewfinder displays a message that it’s a digital zoom, and the resulting quality isn’t very good. Is it also true that zoom lenses on D-SLRs don’t work well at their maximum ends? My 200mm zoom telephoto has a 1.6x factor. How does this relate to the digital vs. optical zoom on my son’s point-and-shoot?
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