Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > -- > 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