Stellers Jay – the back side

As recently promised in comments, the backside of the stellers jay.

I’ve been playing with a new lens, canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM. We’ve had frigid temperatures, but I got a few stellers jays to come out and play. The lens is working well so far and I’m hoping for a chance to use it a bit more this week. The zoom is operated push, pull instead of twist. I have to get used to that. I love the full time manual focus; you can use the auto focus first and then fine tune manually without turning off the auto focus. I have one other lens that has full time manual focus and wish they were all FTM.

The stellers jay image: 1/250 second, f5.6, 340mm, ISO 250

More to come with this lens… I’m hoping for some big furry mammals to wander by, deer, elk, or a bear at a distance.

2 thoughts on “Stellers Jay – the back side

  1. Wren

    Big furry mammals, little furry mammals … any excuse to play with new toys.

    I have one lens that zooms in and out with a push-pull mechanism, too. I find it is a bit stiff and awkward at times, but works well enough if you aren’t changing too much too often.

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