{"id":2308,"date":"2011-10-05T05:48:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T09:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/2011\/10\/05\/1052011-eisenhower-bee\/"},"modified":"2011-10-05T07:09:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T11:09:32","slug":"1052011-eisenhower-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=2308","title":{"rendered":"10\/5\/2011: Eisenhower Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While at Eisenhower Park on Sunday, there were multitudes of bees working the flower borders. They munst know how short the season is now, and must be driven to harvest while the harvest is still here. <\/p>\n

And I was practicing with the new zoom. It has a great close focus, even at the long end. With the Nikon P500 I have been using, I would put the camera in Close Up mode to engage close focus and then be able to zoom out to about 600mm and maintain macro focus. With the Canon, in my experiments so far, macro does not appear to work well above about 2 feet at the tele end (though it focus down to 0 cm at the wide end\u2026you can focus on something that is touching the outer surface of the lens)\u2026but normal close focus at the long end of the zoom is 4.6 feet (and very fast)\u2026which certainly gives you a tele-macro effect. <\/p>\n

This shot was at 840mm equivalent field of view from about 5 feet. Not bad! <\/p>\n

Canon SX40is at 840mm equivalent, f6.3 @ 1\/1250th @ ISO 160. Program.<\/p>\n

Processed in Lightroom for Clarity and Sharpness. <\/p>\n

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