Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Forty feet seems too close to ask for a wildlife guy I can only guess. That could be way over a Junco's personal space line. I know that Great Blue Heron's get nervous at 250 yards and by 150 yarns fly away. That was my only bird job experience it was in Portland Oregon in a big golf course by Jantzen beach. A known hang out for that Great Blue Heron which had just been named Portland's official bird by mayor Bud Clark. Who sounded like a bird himself. My longest optic a 200 was a joke for the job as they can certainly see you coming up the fairway. I ended up getting the shot in Oaks Park and cropping like a son of a gun as I never got close enough and the image appeared on tee-shirts a childhood friend of mine in the rag biz made. The grain was not an issue on the cloth. It was Tri X. I had to wake up at 4 am. ...which was at Oaks park hangout #2 for the Oregon Great Blue Heron. Those I didn't make fly away before I clicked a few. It may have been from a great distance they heard the click and that spooked them. ... On a Nikon FE2. As a kid I played the Cello and my Dad would ask: "can you play Far Far Away?" never found that one in the Face Book. On 9/17/13 10:30 AM, "Doug Herr" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: > Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> >> Doug I really think if you did that you'd have an edge the other >> photographers did not have. >> As you are shooting medium format with all or most of the quickness of >> 35mm! >> They would have to all pack up their blinds and go home. >> >> An edge over the ones shooting full frame 24x36 Canon Nikon and and edge >> on >> whatever photographers shoot the much clunkier than Leica S Hasselblad >> medium format digital. >> > > I'd like to think that my primary edge is my relationship with my subjects, > but I'm all for a technical edge as well. > >> This glass you are mentioning all sounds like my dream glass or close to >> it >> but I'd thought that some of the classic long Leica glass you were >> already >> using would cover to the edges of the S digital medium format. > > My long lens kit now consists of the 280mm f/4 APO and extenders. An > adapter > to use R lense on S bodies is available, sacrificing infinity focus. For > the > 280mm lenses the maximum focus distance is 40'. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/