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Subject: [Leica] New 300mm Lens
From: cartersxrd at gmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 18:39:20 -0400
References: <PH7PR84MB31843D78B15E159E67D30F44B807A@PH7PR84MB3184.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

Looks like you?re taking right to it!

I can see already, you?re going to have a lot of fun.

Ric

(You may also think about some extension tubes to get you a closer working 
distance. Looks like a good bugging rig.)

> On Sep 1, 2025, at 12:40?PM, Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at 
> leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> I have finally gotten out to shoot something other than the hillside by my 
> house to try out my new Nikon 300/4 PF lens.  I have a lot to learn.  I 
> have never shot with anything over 200 and then rarely so.  I shot 60 
> shots with maybe 5 with the focus being nailed on what I wanted.  
> Admittedly they are all up very close with a very shallow DOF and all hand 
> held, so any small waver will through the focus plane off, but they were 
> almost all off in the same way.  I did not think you had to fine tune the 
> focus on a mirrorless camera, but maybe I do.
> 
> Anyway, here are some shots of an 8 Spotted Skimmer by a pond.
> 
> Arboretum Dragonfly 8 Spotted Skimmer-0358 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/nl/Arboretum+Dragonfly+8+Spotted+Skimmer-0358.jpg.html>
> 
> Arboretum Dragonfly 8 Spotted Skimmer-0356 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/nl/Arboretum+Dragonfly+8+Spotted+Skimmer-0356.jpg.html>
> 
> Arboretum Dragonfly 8 Spotted Skimmer-0352 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/nl/Arboretum+Dragonfly+8+Spotted+Skimmer-0352.jpg.html>
> 
> And a Spreadwing Damselfly, not sure which one.
> 
> Arboretum Dragonfly 8 Spotted Skimmer-0352 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/nl/Arboretum+Dragonfly+8+Spotted+Skimmer-0352.jpg.html>
> 
> All are cropped about 50%.  I have ordered a 1.4x Converter that is due 
> next week.
> 
> Comments welcome
> 
> Aram
> 
> 
> -- 
> Aram Langhans
> (Semi) Retired Science Teacher
> & Unemployed photographer
> ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself 
> would ever have dared dream.?   James D. Watson
> 
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