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[Swampy]

Here's a couple I shot this morning. Handheld, Metz 54 flash @ 1/60 and f3.3. Just messing around using my 70-200VR.

[Swampy]

And another one...

Didn't do anything but crop and my USM settings twice.

[Swampy]

Here's another I took today. Handheld on top of a 6 foot ladder (well, second to the last step from the top). Again, 70-200mmVR. 1/60, f5.6, ISO 200

[Swampy]

And here's a partial full frame of the shot above... Remember, handheld @200mm, 1/60th on top of a ladder in the shade! (the only place to be right now - almost 100 degrees right now.) Crazy europeans think this is hot. Sheesh. This is almost an everyday thing in August for us here in CA!

[Swampy]

Thanks Lumens!

The humming birds were shot at about 10 feet and the dragonfly was around 6 or 7 feet.

I'm thinking we should have sticky posts (posts that always stay at the top) in the lens section for various lenses for people to post thier best images in. Or maybe make another forum for it or something. Then people can go to the lens area and actually see what lenses have been tested on the S2 and how the pictures look under different conditions.

[Wichita Wayne]

The bird shot is also great. You must have the patience of Job to get these shots.

[Swampy]

Smunky - My Metz 54-MZ3 was set to Auto/TTL. Still playing around with that Metz. There's two basic auto settings on it, auto/auto and auto/TTL. I'm assuming auto/auto uses the flash solely for all information and auto/TTL uses the flash to determine how much it should flash by taking the readings through the lens. What type of "dark shots" are you looking for? Are you looking for 6 second exposures of some night lights reflecting on water, or what? Let me know and I'll see what I can pull off.

Wayne, No patience necessary. This two shots are of one of a pair of hummers in my back yard. There's a third one that's the bully of the yard. The two in the pair they seem to take turns making the bully chase them while the other comes in to feed. It's hilliarious and you can time it to the minute to when there will be a hummer on that feeder. Somewhere between 12-14 minute intervals and you'll have one of the 3 there. So I can be working in the yard, see one feed, then just go about working for 10 minutes, grab a glass of water or something, sit in a chair and relax, grab my cable release and basically wait for 1 minute to get a shot (10-20 shots even).

Nice to have my own humming bird feeder models 14 hours a day available to me every day. :)

[Swampy]

I'll shoot some stuff tonight for ya and post it in the newly created lens test sub under that lens model. :)

[Swampy]

Smunky - I've hit a creative brick wall. All my inside home stuff isn't very photographic. haha. I can't think of anything to shoot that will be worthwhile I think. Let me think on it for a day or two. Meanwhile, the best I could come up with is putting one my Bearded Dragons on my pool table and had him pose. And I got the DOF way off too. You can look, but don't laugh. haha. Ok, you can.

1/20 f3.3 ISO800 no flash, handheld @97mm

[Wichita Wayne]

My sons bearded dragon. She is quite the lizard.

[Baron]

Hello,everybody! Do you know something about announsed Nikkor 12-24? I use Sigma 15-30 but it has very unsharp image. What about wide angle lenses for N-F (& S2Pro).

[RacerX]

Is that the seem Bearded I gave you way back when ???
If so, he looks pretty good for his age. :)