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[*] posted on 2-15-2006 at 02:26 PM


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[*] posted on 2-15-2006 at 04:02 PM


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I have meaning to invest in a good digital camera with the best photo quality zoom when back stateside. Any more recommendations on such a camera from you Nomad picture hounds would be helpful.


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Take a look at the Nikon D70.

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The D50 has come out recently. Specs are VERY close to the D70, and it's a couple hundred dollars less. Worth a look. You can read reviews and spec comparisons at http://www.dpreview.com .
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[*] posted on 2-15-2006 at 05:08 PM


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You will have to buy a lens for either of the Nikons to shoot something like your whale shot. I have the D70 and really like it but for an all in one unit, I still take my trusty Mavica which has a built in zoom.


Whales-What blows me away is the fact that the whales learned that, for instance, Scammons Lagoon, which has been described as red with whale blood at one time, is now safe. How did they know it had changed? How many trips did it take before they figured it out?
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[*] posted on 2-15-2006 at 06:05 PM
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Today at Lopez Mateos. This one is very young and wouldn't get closer than about 20 feet from the panga. There were quite a few pangas in the part of the bay where we were. All those I saw appeared to be observing standard cautions: high speed only when out of the channel, very slow speed when near whales, drifting dead engined when approached. If the whales were at all alarmed by the interactions, they didn't seem so to me. Their perfectly tranquil rising and sinking were almost hypnotic. The calves were even nursing quite near to boats and doing a lot of rolling on their mothers' bodies. One splashed its tail and flipped a couple of gallons of water right into its mom's blowhole. She sort of sneezed and then rolled onto her side for the calf.

As far as the thing about making a wild thing lose its fear of humans goes, we are faced with some trade-offs. I agree with what Ursidae says, the raised awareness does the whole species immeasurable good. We see both sides of that coin all the time, often with tragic small-scale results, but in this crowded world where humans and their impact are on the heavy side of all equations, raised awareness and sensitivity can work in favor of entire species' well being. Our own included if we get some of it right.
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