Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pretty amazing considering the focal length and your distance to the bee. The 60 does amazingly well considering the age of the design. On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 2:35 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: > After venturing out to get my Senior Flu Shot and pick up a few things, > I needed a few minutes to relax. A thought occurred to me (yes, one > does have thoughts after age 90). Would the 2X extender combine with > the Leica-R 60 mm Macro lens? So I put the pieces together, put a fresh > battery in the Fuji X-T2, and walked outside. (Although the X-T2 allows > one to enter the focal length of manual lenses, I forgot to do it. It > still reports 500mm, not 120mm). > > Insect activity has just about disappeared at my house except for a few > butterflies that pass and wave, but don't touch down. I saw an orange > one and a yellow one that teased me while I was out. I finally spotted > some Carpenter Bees. It wasn't until I was looking at them on the > screen that I realized I had another Eastern Carpenter Bee or > "Green-Eyed Bee". > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20201006-DSCF2155.JPG.html > > -- > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Don don.dory at gmail.com