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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Old is New Again
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 17:22:13 -0500
References: <8eb02931-ff0d-9eba-8879-f223c4a06d96@lighttube.net>

You have better subject isolation and much less noise.  There is a reason
birder reach for a 600 or longer.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 5:16 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
wrote:

> After dealing with noise in extreme crops of birds from the images
> produced by my 50-200, I decided to try another lens/camera
> combination.  I put a 2X extender on the Leica Telyt-R  250mm and
> adapted that combo to my Olympus E-M1, enabling the digital extender.
> This allowed me to use a magnified image on the rear screen, which
> greatly improved fine focusing.  So, I'm effectively using a 500mm lens,
> with a magnified focusing aid, on my micro 4/3 camera.
>
>  From the usual array of squirrels and birds, I chose this hungry House
> Sparrow as my target.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20200420-P4201081.JPG.html
>
> To me, it looks promising.  This makes manual focusing enjoyable once more.
>
> --
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
>
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Don
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