Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug I have seen coyotes come a lot closer to me than 40 feet in Yosemite. I was there over a Thanksgiving week to take a rock climbing class, and only had my Nikonos, but the animal filled a good part of the frame. Your two coyote pics show a very well fed animal, not typical of those living down in my canyon. Jerry Doug Herr wrote: > on 2/8/03 11:05 PM, Daniel Ridings at daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.no wrote: > > Re: > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/mammals/coyote1.html > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/mammals/coyote2.html > > > I was just wondering how far away you were. > > Since the f/6.8 lenses don't have distance scales I don't know exactly... > and even if they did have distance scales that's not what I look at when a > carnivore is as close as this one was! I would guess that for coyote2 the > animal was no more than 40 feet away, possibly closer. BTW this is a crop > from horizontal. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html