On Apr 19, 2006, at 12:18 AM, David Savage wrote:
FA 100mm f2.8 Macro isn't too shabby:
<http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/GESO/GESO_001/pages/IMGP2152_2.html>
Of course you need friendly birds :-)
Not necessarily, but you'd better be prepared to crop. A lot.
Here's a small section of a slide I just happened to be working on
this evening...
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/swans.html
That's Velvia grain you can see ;) The image is a bit soft because
the 15mm isn't very sharp wide-open, and I was pushing my luck with
the exposure (1/15th handheld with MLU, I think). Oh and it was
misty, which is why I was out shooting in the first place.
Perhaps a slightly better example is this friendly duck I shot at 24mm.
http://pug.komkon.org/01sep/Closeup.html
- Dave (hoping to attempt photographing fantails soon, if they can
stay still long enough)
