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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Unknown Flying Insect
From: amagayneroshak at gmail.com (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 18:45:23 -0500

 On Fri, 23 Jul 2021 Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>wrote:


>I checked the Buddleia this morning, carrying my Fuji X-T2 and a
>Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 135/3.5 lens plus an Olympus 40cm closeup
>converter lens. I got one image that pleased me, but, after examining
>1000 online images, I have not identified the winged subject.? Perhaps
>someone will recognize it.

>http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210723-DSCF2442-Enhanced.JPG.html
<http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210723-DSCF2442-Enhanced.JPG.html>


>My keeper percentage using manual focus is disappointing.

-- 
>Jim Nichols
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Maybe it's a syrphid, or hover fly:

<https://www.bing.com/search?form=MOZLBR&pc=MOZI&q=Syrphid+Fly>

-- 
Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
(Retired)
UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
amagayneroshak at gmail.com
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/>

"All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
 for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt


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