Here's something new as well we just found out about at work. Take a look:

Canon:http://www.robgalbraith.com/diginews/2002-02/2002_02_22_d60.html
Nikon:http://www.robgalbraith.com/diginews/2002-02/2002_02_21_d100.html

Either camera back plus a good mount should yield a fantastic image.

At 04:13 PM 2/22/02 -0800, you wrote:
>I was just reading dcresource's overview of some PMA 2002 announcements
>(where new digital cameras are often released)
><http://www.dcresource.com/specials/PMA2002/>, and found this
>tantalizing tidbit:
>
>"Meade Instruments, a major telescope manufacturer, will be showing off
>a new set of binoculars that has a built-in digital camera! CaptureView
>(as it is called) combines a full-function 8X22 folding-roof prism
>binocular with an integrated digital camera capable of storing up to
>forty 640X480 resolution pictures (as well as hundreds at a lower
>resolution). CaptureView will be available in spring 2002 and is
>expected to sell for approximately $100 at retail."
>
>Something like this ought to help settle some of the disputed sightings :-)
>
>At $100, I expect that this one may be of toy quality, but if it works
>at all and becomes popular, high quality ones, and cameras built into
>scopes, won't be far behind...
>--
>Allyn Weaks allyn at tardigrade.net
>Seattle, WA Sunset zone 5
>Pacific NW Native Wildlife Gardening: http://www.tardigrade.org/natives/

Jack Kintner <kintner at nas.com> Blaine, WA
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