I dunno. When I was shooting today (got a juvenile red winged blackboard - kinda cool) I took a look at the scale on the focus ring and I got to about 8 feet. Sometimes I'll get closer: my barn swallow was very near the closest I can focus on my M200mm f4.0, about 6.5 feet, but that's unusually close:
http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2013/06/barn-swallow.html?m=1 With such a short lens (for this sort of stuff) I have no choice but get as close as possible. I try to lift the camera to eye early as that motion does tend to spook them. Then I take teeny steps, shooting a few frames each step until we're done (meaning "the bird flies away"). Thanks for the comment. Thanks to everyone else who commented and looked. Glad you enjoyed. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: "P.J. Alling" <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> Sent: June 28, 2013 6/28/13 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> Subject: Re: PESO - Red Winged Blackbird (male) Damn, how close are you getting to these birds? Every time I raise my camera to my eye at a distance where a reasonable focal length lens is effective, they panic and think I'm going to shoot the based on how fast they disappear. On 6/28/2013 11:25 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: > I read that the red winged blackbird may be the most common bird in North > America. Apparently they're ~everywhere~, including New Toronto. The other > day was a (not so black) female, today the male: > > http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2013/06/red-wing-blackbird-male.html?m=1 > > Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. > > Cheers, > frank > > "For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and > spontaneity." -- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- There are two kinds of computer users those who've experienced a hard drive failure, and those that will. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
