More backyard - fur and flyers

You wouldn't expect a manual-focus lens to work well for action. But plan the picture and you can capture it.

Robins had taken over a neighbor's aspen trees. So I prefocused and waited. Something spooked the whole batch and they all flew. The 400mm Telyt was narrow enough for only one of them, but the bird was far enough away for his former perch to make nice diagonals:
http://www.mountain-and-desert.com/Wildlife/Birds/Perching_BX/DBX-MR0090-56.htm or
http://tinyurl.com/bg2lb

A pair of bold western gray squirrels chased everybody else off, and buried their own nuts:
http://www.mountain-and-desert.com/Wildlife/Mammals/Tree_Squirrels/DML-TS-WG0179-7.htm or
http://tinyurl.com/8hhns

All comments welcome.


One thing you discover with the Telyt on EOS cameras is that Canon's excellent EF1.4X II and EF2X II extenders won't work. The camera sees the extender's information, but doesn't see the lens information with the manual Telyt. The camera gets confused, and too-long exposure times are the result.

This just means you need to:
1. get a Leitz teleconverter, or
2. use stealth distraction techniques to get closer.

I've been sneaking up on distracted wildlife for awhile and don't want to buy a Leica converter for just one lens, so you know what I do...

Mark Bohrer
Precision Copywriting
www.precision-copywriting.com

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