Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]==On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:36 PM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote: > Hi Luggers, > > I marched over to the Aviary in the Hong Kong Botanical gardens yesterday > afternoon with the D700 and tripod - using only one leg extended as a > monopod - the 400 telyt and the 300 nikkor. It was sunny and the birds were > frisky and the place was crawling with photographers most with huge > autofocus lenses. I don't think I've ever seen as many active enthusiastic photographers at one time in one place as I did in Hong Kong. Everywhere. > Here's a black capped Lory taken with the 400. Even at f6.3 a 400mm lens > has > such a shallow depth of field that it is hard to get the bird's eyes in > focus and have the front feathers in focus. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Nikkor300/Black-Capped-Lory-400-w.jpg.html > http://tinyurl.com/y9oza57 > > Here's the Bali Mynah - its blue eye ring makes it easier to focus the eyes > sharply. I used the 300 Nikkor for this picture and it shows the benefit of > having auto aperture stop down for increasing the depth of field. And, of > course, a 300mm lens has slightly more depth of field than a 400mm one. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Nikkor300/BaliMynaw.jpg.html > http://tinyurl.com/yc4j3hz > > Wow. --Bob