[Leica] IMG: Another Oldie Revisited

[Douglas Barry]

I see that it's a "Union" Purple Finch, Jim, as the lichen clearly shows 
it's on the northern side of your bird feeder not on the confederate 
side :-) You must have a very unpolluted environment to warrant such 
profuse lichen growth.

Douglas
who spent a lot of time orienteering in his youth

On 24/07/2021 20:38, Jim Nichols wrote:
> I took out another manual focus lens today on my Fuji X-T2.  It is a 
> Pentax Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 200/4, from the 1970s.  It's biggest 
> shortcoming is that its closest focus distance is 2.5 meters (8.2 
> ft.)  Insects were not cooperative, so I moved toward the bird feeder 
> support post, where this male Purple Finch was giving me the message 
> that I was disturbing his snack.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210724-DSCF2498-Enhanced.JPG.html 
>
>
> The lesson learned was that old guys best stick to autofocus.
>