Edinburgh Botanic Gardens

I spent a very pleasant few hours in lovely weather at the Edinburgh botanic gardens today - here are a few of the results (the rest are at http://www.pbase.com/niblue/botanics_291107)



K10D, Meyer Optik Gorlitz Oreston 50mm F1.8



K10D, Meyer Optik Gorlitz Trioplan 100mm F2.8 (the cat was stalking a squirrel and came very close to catching it)



K10D, Cosina 100mm F3.5 macro



K10D, Cosina 100mm F3.5 macro



K10D, Sigma 24mm F2.8

Love the cat.

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Best regards, John

That Cosina 100mm Macro lens of yours looks a gem. Shame the cat is not in focus, it looks like the focus point is a little forward of the cat's location. Maybe lift the foreground shadows a bit in the last one.

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Peter E Smith

My flickr Photostream

It's a very decent lens given how cheap it is (mine was £37 used).


It is - I was playing about with an old M42 manual focus lens at the time and that, combined with having to lie on the ground to get the shot, meant I was a little rushed and slightly missed the focus point. The cat rushed out to attack the squirrel and I only had time to get two shots off before it moved - in both shots the focus point is slightly forward of the cat.