Agreed. Considering the cost of the cameras, a $60.00 EN-EL15C battery is cheaper than a $40.00 knock-off.
Same goes for the EN-EL18C. Not worth it for me.
I dry my car after washing it with a microfiber towel. A beach towel with a chance of a little sand in it would be cheaper. Same principal.

I just installed it. Lots to learn, but the bird feature is worth the most for me. Just for a test, I focused on photos of dragonflies on my monitor, and the focal point box zeroed in on the eyes/head of the dragons. Goes right for the eyes with a 400mm lens from across the room, and loads of small photos on the screen. Looking at bird photos through the z8 it's as good or better. . I can't wait for winter and all the rain to go away. I have a feeling that bugs in flight will now be a whole new game! Not to mention birds. The update did rearrange my i-menu slightly, but no big problem. This is now a whole new camera!

You should take your ignorant post to the attic where it belongs.

Tell it that it looks pfat in those clothes.

(mea culpa) I'm bad.

Other than that I guess you have to hunt for the software switch.

Thanks! Bugguide confirmed Sergiolus.

Thanks to everyone! It may show up again. It was very small an quick & jumped off my hand on the way to the door. :-)

Sergiolus columbianus?

It was crawling around on the kitchen counter today.
A quick shot of it on a cork coaster to get an ID. Waiting for Bugguide.

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Maybe clean out (delete) your browser history and cookies and see if this goes away.

I took snapshots of some of the bull frogs to document their arrival here as they are a new development. (no pun intended). I didn't think anything of it other than it looked sort of unusual. I thought it was just the way the light was reflecting off of it. Then I googled "blue bull-frog"
When it warms up I'll see if I can find it again. I'll send it tp Ken to sample. :-)

Groan.......

Here is a photo I took of our very own blue bullfrog here in Oregon. I had no idea they were that rare, and only seen once in a blue moon. (sorry). I found it in one of the ponds near our house in 09/09/ this year.
I only wish all of the green ones were as rare. They have become an infestation, and most are still too small if anyone cared to eat them.
Looks pretty pleased with himself, doesn't he.
Regards & happy holidays,

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CLEVELAND — Wildlife experts call it a “one in a million” find, and that’s exactly what happened to one Ohio man who encountered a blue bullfrog recently in western Ohio.
Matt Minnich was especially lucky to encounter this rarity. The frog becomes blue when it has axanthism, a mutation that interferes with an animal’s ability to produce yellow pigment.
“It's an extremely rare situation. Basically, it's just a color or lack of color combinations. So basically, it's a genetic thing that would be caused by a recessive gene,” said Brian Banbury, executive administrator for Information and Education for the Ohio Division of Wildlife.
According to a Rhode Island Division of Fish and Wildlife report, a national study by Cornell University researchers found 69 blue frogs during a survey of 2 million, which comes to a frequency of 0.003%. The study found it may be more common in some regions than others, including several New England states.



CLEVELAND — ...The frog becomes blue when it has axanthism, a mutation that interferes with an animal’s ability to produce yellow pigment.
“It's an extremely rare situation. Basically, it's just a color or lack of color combinations. So basically, it's a genetic thing that would be caused by a recessive gene,” said Brian Banbury, executive administrator for Information and Education for the Ohio Division of Wildlife.
According to a Rhode Island Division of Fish and Wildlife report, a national study by Cornell University researchers found 69 blue frogs during a survey of 2 million, which comes to a frequency of 0.003%. The study found it may be more common in some regions than others, including several New England states.

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Worse than just rabies.
With a loss of over 99% of all the population of vultures, the Indian vulture crisis represents the sharpest decline of any animal in the given period.[3] A major contributing factor in declining populations of vultures is believed to be the widespread use of drugs such as diclofenac, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) once commonly given to livestock. The drug is believed to have been passed onto the vultures through the flesh of dead cattle who were given diclofenac in their last days of life, which then causes kidney failure in vultures.[4] Data modelling revealed that a tiny proportion (about 0.8%) of livestock carcasses containing diclofenac can cause significant crash in vulture populations.[5]

Without vultures, a large number of animal carcasses were left to rot, posing a serious risk to human health by providing a potential breeding ground for infectious germs and proliferation of pests such as rats.[6] The loss of vultures also resulted in a substantial increase in the population of feral dogs, whose bites are the most common cause of human rabies. The feral dog population in India increased by least 5 million, resulting in over 38 million additional dog bites and more than 47,000 extra deaths from rabies, costing $34 billion in economic impact. A vulture's metabolism is a true “dead-end” for pathogens, but dogs and rats become carriers of the pathogens.
Much more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_vulture_crisis

That is really very interesting! Thanks for posting that.