[Leica] The Leica M8.2 Experience

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Do you bird guys ever use a blimp?
Zeppelin made a famous one I gust Googled. .

You could put a blimp in your blind.
And call it a.....


Mark William Rabiner



> From: "wildlightphoto at earthlink.net" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:25:48 -0400
> To: <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] The Leica M8.2 Experience
> 
> Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>>>> 
> In the end no one cares how quiet a camera is when you're using it every
> day.
> <<<
> 
> A few days ago I tried photographing some Calidris sandpipers (Western and
> Least), early migrants returing from arctic breeding grounds.  Very active
> little birds, had their heads buried in muddy water most of the time.
> Sitting by the edge of the pond I'd wait for fifteen minutes before a few
> came within range, I catch a moment when the bird's head was up and sort-of
> facing me, one exposure and *POOF* they're gone.
> 
> I don't know if it was the sound of the shutter or the wink of the flipping
> mirror but it spooked the birds.  I could wait another fifteen minutes
> before they came back, then make another exposure (only to find, like the
> previous exposure, that the sandpiper's head spins faster than an R8's
> mirror rises). I tried the R8's stealth mode with marginally better success
> so it may have been the sound after all - OTOH it was a windy day and the
> birds were on edge anyway.
> 
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> 
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