Very interesting! I never knew... Rick
http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Sat, 4/11/09, Graydon <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Graydon <[email protected]> > Subject: GES0: Mrs. Blackbird > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, April 11, 2009, 3:40 PM > Female red-winged blackbirds spend most of their time > invisible in a > mass of reeds. Yesterday's zoo trip -- hooray!, ponds > with viewing > platforms -- produced, along with about six male blackbirds > crazed with > spring and highly visible, one visible female. > > http://picasaweb.google.com/graydonish/Blackbird#slideshow > > Taking pictures of songbirds generally makes me feel that > f2.8 is very > slow and 800mm is awfully short, but these mostly came out > OK. 800mm/F8 > Rokinon mirror lens, K20D, ISO200, tripod and cable > release. Shutter > speeds between 1/40 and 1/100. > > -- Graydon > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
