Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] PWIFLI: I am not Doug Herr
From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 18:31:24 +1000
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020903205228.00a12d70@pop.2alpha.net>

>A couple of weekends ago, I came upon this fellow wading in the 
>shallows in Blaine, Washington.  Now, I'm not Doug Herr, and I don't 
>have a 400mm Telybazooka.  But I had to do something.  So I mounted 
>my 90 on the M4-P and tiptoed as close as I could get.
>
>So, one Great Blue Heron in black and white, Delta 100, 90mm 
>Elmarit, probably 1/500 @ f/8.  This is only about half the frame, 
>blown up as big as I dare.
>
>http://www.2alpha.com/~pklein/temp/heron.jpg
>
>I really wish I'd had an SLR and a longer lens for this one.  We're 
>really at the limit of a 2700 dpi scanner.

Peter, I have a lot of bird shots like this one: time to get that 
Telybazooka ;-) for both of us.
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Alastair Firkin

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