Harold_L
6th of June 2005 (Mon), 07:47
Image taken looking east about 10 minutes before sunrise on June 6, 2005. This image takes no prizes - it is tilted (note the horizon), composition is bad (this is cropped from the full image), and what I want to show is indistinct. Note the odd bumps of clouds on the horizon left of center. These are very distant clouds (probably more than 20 miles, maybe tops of cumulus 50 miles away), which are miraged and distorted by an inversion layer in the atmosphere. The horizon itself is likely to be at least 15 miles away, as our house is several hundred feet above the elevation at the horizon.
The picture was taken by hand-holding my Canon S500 to the eyepiece of one side of my 10x70 mm binoculars. The binoculars were focused by my (relaxed) eye, so that the exiting beam of light should have been parallel. The camera seems to set itself to infinity focus, so that the image is in pretty good focus. This is one way of adding a telephoto lens to your small camera.
The picture was taken by hand-holding my Canon S500 to the eyepiece of one side of my 10x70 mm binoculars. The binoculars were focused by my (relaxed) eye, so that the exiting beam of light should have been parallel. The camera seems to set itself to infinity focus, so that the image is in pretty good focus. This is one way of adding a telephoto lens to your small camera.