Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey, Doug...bring that baby Thursday night! Nice shot, Dave...I have hummingbirds, too...and sometimes hawks....but little hope of images...binocs just don't do it..even Leicas! t > From: Dave Hillman <dave@hillmanimages.com> > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 23:33:53 -0700 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us, "Roy Zartarian" <rzartarian@snet.net> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Hummingbird > > And here was said Doug Herr on Hawk Hill just a few days later looking for > said hawks. Had I taken any with my M4 would have been the size of > hummingbirds on the frame and probably removed as a dust particle. > > http://www.hillmanimages.com/bw/l27-03.html > > I can only dream of taking pictures of hummingbirds, Roy, although they are > right outside the kitchen window all the time. As above, I just don't have > the right gear. > > On Sunday 07 October 2001 07:40 pm, Roy Zartarian wrote: >> LUGs >> >> At the time a couple of weeks ago when Doug Herr and others >> were speaking of the hawk migration flights, I found myself >> occupied with a bird at the other end of the ornithological size >> spectrum - the ruby throated hummingbird. >> >> One morning I planned to finish a roll of chrome by experimenting >> with 280/2.8 and an extension tube to photograph migrating >> Monarch butterflies as they nectared on one of my butterfly >> bushes. Then I noticed the hummer perched inside the bush. It >> was within the focusing range of the lens setup and remained in >> position for five frames. The most useable is at: >> http://pages.cthome.net/royzartarian/hummer.html >> >> Although I have seen the species in the area, this was the first >> sighting in the yard. >> >> Roy >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html