[Leica] new photo, a napping great gray owl

[Lee K Hermann]

Good day, LUG.

It has been so long since I read the LUG and sent photos to be seen that I have forgotten how it is done.   This must be one of the problems of getting old.  Lately I have been reading the list.  This is in part that I developed an interest in the Leica SL but it is unused as I have abandoned film and it and my M’s and screw mount cameras sit holding down the floor of shelf.  So far I love it even if it seems to have more controls and menus than any of my old SLRs.  I have no SL lenses and have been using my M and R lenses.  These lenses seem to work very well, but someday I shall buy a new lens.  

I have added a photograph to my gallery, Lee Hermann.   

This photo was taken with the SL and a 400 mm f6.8 Telyt R, ISO 1600, using a monopod.   The bird, a great gray owl, was seen as we were counting migratory birds.  He seemed quite sleepy. I got to within 30 to 50 feet of him.  He did not seem to want to open his eyes, which are large and yellow.  After the snaps, I left him to his nap.

The old 400mm lens seems to have worked pretty well, made in 1971.  I hope that you will be able to find the photo in the gallery.

Lee