Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The 60 does deliver more detail. Your tattered butterfly looks like the swallowtails I captured in Mississippi in the very late 50's. On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 3:16 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: > When I want to get serious about close-up shots, I get out the Leica-R > 60mm Macro-Elmarit lens. I got two interesting images with it today. > The first is a sharp image of our common Carpenter Bee on a Buddleia bloom. > > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210909-DSCF2880-Enhanced.JPG.html > > The second is interesting because the subject, a rather tattered dark > butterfly, is one I have not seen before. The orange/red wing tip spots > indicate that it is probably a Red Spotted Purple. If anyone has a > different opinion, I would be open to their suggestion. > > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210909-DSCF2904-Enhanced.JPG.html > > Ignore the lens information shown in the camera data. I didn't bother > to update the manual data input. > > -- > 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