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No, its not a cottonmouth.

Non venomous snake of some sort, perhaps the 'Northern Water Snake', or a subspecies of it.

The eyes of the venomous vipers are distinct vertical slits, as opposed to round pupils as seen on your snake pic.
 
Dianne, do not let these armature Herpetologist frighten you, this is not a water moccasin or a copperhead. The shape of the head is not one of a viper, and the moccasin and copperhead have lighter bands within the dark bands. This is just a water snake.
 
Sometimes it is good to be wrong.
At least that force me to learn and then explore something.

Snakes (except garden variety) are not common in our part of the country (Illinois) and I never have had personal experience with their more exotic southern cousin. Looking on the photographs on the net it is hard to come even close to describe what the snake photographed by Dianne could be.
It was just the guess on my part.

Regards

Richard
 
Google 'Northern water snake' under the images catagory...some of these look pretty close.
 
This picture creeps me out.

Every time I see this thread I get creeped out and I have to but my feet on my chair :)
 
It's a little difficult to make an ID from the photo but that booger looks very much like a Copperhead to me. They are common here in the mountains of Virginia. If it is (was) a Copperhead you should be thankful it didn't decide to check you out with its fangs. Very painful and potentially deadly depending on amount of venom they inject and how quickly one can get medical attention.

http://www.pbase.com/ralph
 
You'll get exactly the same result by cropping your existing picture. Safety zoom is the same thing as digital zoom.
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Dan
 
My thoughts exactly....

Matt, do you see it differently? I guess you can "frame" your shot in camera with that feature, but you can do exactly the same on your computer...
audiobomber said:
You'll get exactly the same result by cropping your existing picture.
Safety zoom is the same thing as digital zoom.
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Dan
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I have done many tests with both cropping and using the safety zoom and have found for whatever reason that the safety zoom results have been better. Maybe someone else has a more scientific answer (that may even prove me wrong) but from what I've heard/seen in my samples and others it does seem better... Matt
Omegaman said:
Matt, do you see it differently? I guess you can "frame" your shot
in camera with that feature, but you can do exactly the same on your
computer...
audiobomber said:
You'll get exactly the same result by cropping your existing picture.
Safety zoom is the same thing as digital zoom.
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Dan
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... I don't use either much but I have tried it both ways and find that the safety zoom is slightly better (for whatever reason) Maybe because it's cropped from the center of the sensor? ... Matt
audiobomber said:
You'll get exactly the same result by cropping your existing picture.
Safety zoom is the same thing as digital zoom.
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Dan
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Photofreak7 said:
... I don't use either much but I have tried it both ways and find
that the safety zoom is slightly better (for whatever reason) Maybe
because it's cropped from the center of the sensor? ... Matt
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In my tests of safety zoom vs cropping, I found no difference. And I can't find anything that says there should be a difference. FWIW I posted a new thread on Safety Zoom.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1010&message=27450018

BTW, thanks for bringing Safety Zoom to my attention. I consider it a useful feature in the right circumstance, and one I had ignored before you brought it up.

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Dan
 
Hi;

Excellent shots!.

Please explain more if you like to share your experience with us. I have been told that the digital zoom is not good. Could we get the same result just by cropping?

thanks;
alborz
 
alborz said:
Hi;

Excellent shots!.

Please explain more if you like to share your experience with us. I
have been told that the digital zoom is not good. Could we get the
same result just by cropping?
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Digital zoom ('in-cam' cropping) crops say a 12MP image down to various sizes while 'drawing in' the subject. These newer higher MP cams have a bit more tolerance for cropping than the previous 5-8MP camera's. It not that you can't crop some with say 5 or 8 MP's but with 10 or 12 you can get better results because you are starting with more resolution. As far as cropping -vs- saefty zoom - in theory and as Dan pointed out there should be little/if any difference. I am still testing to see if that is indeed the case or not. But up to now the SZ feature seems better to my 36 year old eyes... Matt
alborz said:
thanks;
alborz
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Todd Walker said:
That definitely looks like a water mocassin to me. If so, they are
highly venomous and can be very aggressive. Be glad you didn't get
any closer.
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Many people mistake Brown Water Snakes for Mocassins (Cottonmouths), though. The Mocassin has a "Pit" viper head (flat and kind of triangular shaped) and slight ridges above the eyes. The eye pupils will also be slits instead of fully round. The Water Snake is not poisonous, though they are mean and will bite easily.

Some youtube videos on Mocassins:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZSuPPd6f3M&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a_I4kt3nl4
 
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