Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] suitability of M for wildlife photography
From: ternahan <ternahan@sonic.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 23:41:07 -0800

Doug, do you have pix from '68?
trish

> From: Doug Herr <telyt@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 19:10:09 -0800
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] suitability of M for wildlife photography
> 
> on 12/19/01 3:35 PM, Tom Finnegan at TomF@piengr.com wrote:
> 
>> some poor confused soul suggested:
>> 
>> ok, this is going to hurt....
>> 
>> EOS-3 + > 400 mm
>> *****************************
>> 
>> Wasn't it Robert Capa that said something along the lines of, 'if the
>> picture isn't any good, you are not close enough'. So much of wildlife
>> photography is static stale pictures of animals taken from a long ways away
>> with some monster lens. Can you imagine doing street photography with a 400
>> mm lens? Certainly not! So why wildlife photography? All sense of intimacy
>> and involvement is lost.
>> 
> 
> I've used lenses as short as 24mm for wildlife photos, though I must say the
> most likely use for a lens shorter than 200mm or so is when the critter is
> attacking me.  I avoid these situations.
> 
> When not under attack, my goal is to use the shortest possible lens,
> typically as short as 250mm.  An easy way to do this is to hang around in
> one place for a few hours... eventually I become part of the scenery and I
> can move around and photograph at will.
> 
>> 
>> hmmmmm......., now that I think about it, street photography with the
>> 560/6.8 telyt and shoulder stock could be interesting. I might just have to
>> try that one out.
>> 
> 
> Not quite street photography but DDD at the '68 democratic convention comes
> to mind....  I've also used the 400 for candid photos of the kids in my
> daughter's class after they're on to my "21mm shot from the hip" technique.
> 
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> www.wildlightphoto.com
> 
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