White Admiral

wildscenes · Post by **wildscenes** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:55 pm

Taken in France using a 300mm lens

Wayne · Post by **Wayne** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:08 am

Fantastic shot, 300mm with extension tubes?

wildscenes · Post by **wildscenes** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:44 am

sorry for the delayed reply, not been back here for a while.

No extension tubes. This was taken using the Nikon 300mm f/4 AF-S lens which focusses down to 5ft without any tubes! Combine this with the 1.5x factor of the Nikon chip and you get a 450mm lens at 5ft - awesome for butterflies, moths and flowers! I've just swapped this lens for the Nikon 300mm f/2.8 VR AF-S but I think this only goes down to about 7ft min focus. May need a tube but the files from the D2x are big enough to allow some cropping to make up for the 2ft difference between the lenses.

John

Post by **Pete Eeles** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:22 am

A minor-ish point but, given the title of the post, I think this is a Southern White Admiral (Limenitis reducta) rather than a White Admiral (Limenitis camilla ).

See http://www.leps.it/SpeciesPages/LimenReduc.htm

Excellent photo nonetheless!

Cheers,

- Pete

Cotswold Cockney · Post by **Cotswold Cockney** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:49 pm

Wayne wrote:Fantastic shot, 300mm with extension tubes?

Particularly if hand held. Depth of field particularly impressive.

You now have a Nikon 300mm f/2.8 VR AF-S ~ that's pro-spec stuff. Nice.