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Subject: [Leica] Landing Vultures
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 06:43:22 +0200
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The second one, for sure--give much more of the full picture (no pun 
intended) ;-)

Cheers,
Nathan

On 31 Mar 2014, at 18:44, H&E Cummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:

> Hello again Luggers,
> Esther and I shared the jeep with Alastair and Helen when those disgusting 
> pictures of the vultures eating the zebra were made.
> I am not going to post my set of gourmet dining pictures - Alastair's more 
> than adequately tell the story - but I am posting a couple of
> pictures of the vultures coming in to land. The zebra feast was like a 
> busy airport with the birds lining up to land like big jets coming
> into a major airport. One curiosity for me was the way the vultures 
> lowered their heads on final approach - like the old Concorde dipping
> its nose as it came into land.
> 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Tanza2014/LandVulturew.jpg.html>
> 
> and closer to touch down - you can see the eating action on the zebra in 
> the right side of the picture.
> 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Tanza2014/LndVult2w.jpg.html>
> 
> This exercise was a bit of a test of the follow focus capabilities of the 
> XT 1 equipped with the 55 - 200 zoom.
> It did pretty well but there was some wandering in and out of focus as I 
> tracked the birds down. Still,
> when focus was hit - it was very sharp.
> 
> Please look large - C& C always welcome
> 
> Howard
> 
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