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Subject: [Leica] Hummingbird inspiration
From: cummer at netvigator.com (H&E Cummer)
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 14:52:38 -0700
References: <mailman.1854.1310236854.1103.lug@leica-users.org>

Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 11:38:00 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
From: Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>
Subject: [Leica] Hummingbird inspiration
To: "lug at leica-users.org" <lug at leica-users.org>

Lawrence Beck's hummingbirds of the Andes:

http://lawrencebeck.com/lawrencebeck.com/Portfolios/Pages/Hummingbirds.html

Surprisingly, on-topic: he's using a DMR and pre-Modular 400mm f/2.8 
APO-Telyt-R and lots of lighting.

Doug Herr

Hi Doug,
Thanks for posting the link. Mr. Beck's photos are inspirational and 
certainly set a standard to aim for!
When he takes a picture with the wings frozen and sharp I expect he must be 
using strobe flash. As you
mentioned in an earlier post - even 1/3000 isn't fast enough to still the 
wings. I did some research earlier
on the net and one of the hummingbird setups involved strobe flashes firing 
at 1/20000 of a second to
freeze the birds' motion.
Cheers
Howard