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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Another Green-Eyed Bee
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 14:44:43 -0500
References: <547e0c8e-8e66-5fb4-2dbe-aa2af74e21d9@lighttube.net>

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
>
>
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-- 
Don
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