I put the Panasonic Leica D Vario-Elmar 14-150mm F3.5-5.6 Asph superzoom on the Olympus E-5 for my walk around the neighborhood but mostly came up empty handed.
I'm still looking for a lens hood for this thing, but they're unobtainium.
With an equivalent maximum focal length of 300mm on the Oly's Four Thirds sensor, I had plenty of reach for squirrel snapping, but I lacked for subjects.
At fifteen years old, the E-5 is starting to show its age, but if you keep the ISO at 400 or lower, it still does just fine.
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Even with those critters pretty strongly back-lit the exposures came out beautifully...nicely done. You also nailed the focus on a subject that didn't have a whole lot of contrast, so either your auto-focus system on that camera/lens pair works really well, or you've got a great eye for manual focus.
My Pentax DSLR's don't have really good focussing screens for manual focus and that can make it difficult with a manual lens. I got very used to the microprism focus screen on my 35mm SP500 (I've been using Pentax since 1966 or so when I was 8 years old). I've thought about changing focus screens but I'm too clutzy to try anything like that...all of the thumbs on my hand get in the way of each other.
In any case, I came over to comment because of the squirrel pictures on the other blog which were just as sharp, well exposed, and nicely composed as these.
That was autofocus from the E-5, which was Oly's last pro DSLR. A criminally underrated camera.
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