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[tiger98]

vIZnquest, Thanks for the nice comments! Jim

[tiger98]

Thanks John, Can you say LUCK ! Actually I took a lot of shots that didn't turn out that well but as I said got lucky on some of them, I had never tried catching them in flight before! Jim

[motib]

Great shots. Where in AZ did you shoot these pix?

[tiger98]

Thanks Motib. They were taken in a Wetlands park In Gilbert. Quite a large area! Jim

[Macnite]

You've got to be kidding me Jim(!) capture adragonfly in flight?? 30 feet away?? WOW!!! thats something I haven't seen before! Excellent series by the way!

Jim,, I was looking the pictures of the football game (FZ50), the sharpness is NOT there!!!

Emmanuel

[tiger98]

Thanks Emmanuel ! I got tired of waiting for the Dragonfies to land sooooo the next best thing was to shoot them in the air! Lot of luck involved! :-) Jim

take a look at this link for another sample of no sharpness!

http://www.stevesforums.com/forums/v...mp;forum_id=23

[bayourebel]

Very nice series Jim. You sure give me more confidence in the FZ30 abilities, even if I am not there yet.

Jerry

[tiger98]

Thanks Jerry! Your getting there! Your last shots of the mantis were really good. Jim

[Lens Flare]

Macnite wrote:

You've got to be kidding me Jim(!) capture adragonfly in flight?? 30 feet away?? WOW!!! thats something I haven't seen before!

I bet he's using paid actors for this, probably stunt dragonflies :-). Totally freezing a dragonfly in flight at max zoom is an amazing feat.

[Macnite]

Lens Flare, I never thought of that!......You might be right.