Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Howard, These are with the 70-200 and the 17-55, handheld. They were all around us. Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:50 PM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote: > > Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 15:56:30 +0530 >> From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> >> Subject: [Leica] Lion-tailed Macaque >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> >> My trip to the rainforest was primarily to see the Lion-tailed Macaque, a >> monkey endemic to the rainforests of the Western Ghats mountain range in >> South India, and one of the rarest primates in the world, only an >> estimated >> 3000 or so survive in the wild. Why it ended up being called Lion-tailed >> instead of Lion-maned eludes me, because its silver gray mane is far more >> spectacular than its admittedly lion like tail. Luckily we got close to a >> troop, and they did not seem bothered in the least - this being the >> monsoons, the weather and light was fairly miserable, and most shots are >> at >> ISO 800 and above: >> > > Hi Jayanand, > Wish I could have been along! > Your usual set up? > The D300 and the 200 - 400 zoom with 1.7 Xtender on a bean bag? > However done - they are lovely pictures with eyes in focus and great catch > lights. > Much cropping? > Cheers > Howard > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >