Target Acquired

Posted by Twelvebit (Victoria, United States) on 22 June 2007 in Animal & Insect.

I was sitting on our patio, camera on tripod, to try out my cheap new Nikon 75-300 mm lens on the backyard bird feeder. My dog, Hamlet, woke up beside me from a nap and nearly knocked over my tripod in his exuberance to do something --I don't know what exactly-- about the squirrel who had slipped up to the feeder while he was sleeping. Of course, Hamlet had no chance of catching this squirrel. As far as the lens goes, the higher the aperture the better, with anything below f8 a non-starter.

NIKON D80
1/100 second
F/5.0
ISO 200
300 mm (35mm equiv.)

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squirrel
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dane