{"id":376,"date":"2008-09-11T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T03:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=376"},"modified":"2008-09-29T22:08:02","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T02:08:02","slug":"getting-the-story-putting-you-in-the-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"Getting the Story & Putting You in the Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Turtle Journal team gets\u00c2\u00a0close to\u00c2\u00a0the action to bring you inside the critical natural moment with vivid imagery and compelling video clips.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Sue Wieber Nourse Snaps Close-Up of Emerging Hatchling<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Sony DSC-F828 serves as our workhorse research camera with a high quality Carl Zeiss lens and a manual zoom ranging from macro to ~ 135 mm telephoto.\u00c2\u00a0 We have two F828s, one that\u00c2\u00a0shows all the signs of\u00c2\u00a0several years of salt water and sand dunes, and\u00c2\u00a0a second one with only a single research season under its belt.\u00c2\u00a0 The F828 produces excellent digital stills, but also provides the capability to switch quickly to medium quality video to document important research events.<\/p>\n

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Terrapin Hatchling Pips through Its Eggshell<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

If the F828 is our workhorse, the Pentax Optio W30 with its built-in underwater capability is our pocket miracle maker.\u00c2\u00a0 The underwater housing serves double duty.\u00c2\u00a0 Surprisingly, not every field day is sunshine and light.\u00c2\u00a0 More days than we wish to remember are filled instead with rain, wind and storms.\u00c2\u00a0 For instance, the leatherback necropsy last Sunday was done outdoors (obviously) in a driving rain storm.\u00c2\u00a0 The only camera present that could document the post mortem was the Optio W30.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Don Lewis Zooms In on Emerging Duo for a Close-Up<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Having lost three previous digital cameras to salt water, the Optio W30 is perfect to document all action near, above and below the water line.\u00c2\u00a0 Its compact shape and light mass allow the camera to slip comfortably into field pockets and even bathing suit pockets.\u00c2\u00a0 This camera takes excellent macro video clips in QuickTime format and good quality stills when the F828 isn’t around.<\/p>\n

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Close-Up of the Emerging Duo<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The one drawback with the Optio W30 is the LCD screen.\u00c2\u00a0 The camera fell from my swimming suit pocket about 12 inches onto sandy soil during our June field school.\u00c2\u00a0 The fall appears to have jarred the LCD screen which has dropped to about 10% functionality.\u00c2\u00a0 In essence, the camera now is a point and guess.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, the Optio W30 brings home some sweet imagery … when pointed in the right direction and in the right mode of operation.<\/p>\n

The most important instrument for capturing the right shot at the right moment has nothing to do with digital anything.\u00c2\u00a0 If you can’t get yourself to the\u00c2\u00a0perfect spot at the\u00c2\u00a0perfect time, your top quality camera will capture a whole lot of sea gulls, sand dunes and fiddler crabs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Turtle Journal team gets\u00c2\u00a0close to\u00c2\u00a0the action to bring you inside the critical natural moment with vivid imagery and compelling video clips.\u00c2\u00a0 Sue Wieber Nourse Snaps Close-Up of Emerging Hatchling The Sony DSC-F828 serves as our workhorse research camera with a high quality Carl Zeiss lens and a manual zoom ranging from macro to ~ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[216,279,220,230,236,234,233,228,84,227,225,102,231,222,223,229,232,221,215,219,218,235,213,212,226,217,110,224,210,211,214],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}