Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 8/28/03 5:49 PM, P2CON@aol.com at P2CON@aol.com wrote: > I am inclined to think it may have been one of those 1 in 10,000 shots that we > get every now and then. It is quite possible that the mayfly shown rising out > of the water was not the kingfisher's intended target. Perhaps the kingfisher > had just completed an unsuccessful head-first, wings folded dive to pluck an > emerging mayfly off the water, and missed. Then, as it came back out of the > water, and in it's first several wing-beats just a few inches off the surface, > and a foot or two from the original dive point, it sees another mayfly > emerging. He turns his head to look, opens his mouth to say Hot-Damn there's > another one, and the cameraman, with his human reaction time and the camera > with it's lag time and mirror flip time gets the shot. Remember, the Canon 1V > has that amazing auto-follow-focus capability. > The water wouldn't have been that still. Even if the bird dove in to the water a few feet away there would have been some ripples. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html