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Subject: [Leica] Lion-tailed Macaque
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 20:51:42 +0530
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Howard,
These are with the 70-200 and the 17-55, handheld. They were all around us.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:50 PM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:

>
>  Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 15:56:30 +0530
>> From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [Leica] Lion-tailed Macaque
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>
>> My trip to the rainforest was primarily to see the Lion-tailed Macaque, a
>> monkey endemic to the rainforests of the  Western Ghats mountain range  in
>> South India, and one of the rarest primates in the world, only an
>> estimated
>> 3000 or so survive in the wild. Why it ended up being called Lion-tailed
>> instead of Lion-maned eludes me, because its silver gray mane is far more
>> spectacular than its admittedly lion like tail. Luckily we got close to a
>> troop, and they did not seem bothered in the least - this being the
>> monsoons, the weather and light was fairly miserable, and most shots are
>> at
>> ISO 800 and above:
>>
>
> Hi Jayanand,
> Wish I could have been along!
> Your usual set up?
> The D300 and the 200 - 400 zoom with 1.7 Xtender on a bean bag?
> However done - they are lovely pictures with eyes in focus and great catch
> lights.
> Much cropping?
> Cheers
> Howard
>
>
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