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On the way home form PNG we visited New South Wales again. This fellow was kind enopug to pose for us. You can see more of this leg of the trip (Sydney and the Blue Mountains) on the two "Austrailia After PNG pages of our site.

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Stuart,

I don't normally ask those stupid "what f-stop...., etc?" questions (as if any normal human could remember).... but which camera did you use, any close-up lens?

 

Reason for asking is because both of these are pretty remarkable shots! :)

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Arthur - Thank you.

 

Pete - Thank you. It definitely was the R8/DMR (by then it was the only camera with me), and I'm nearly certain it was the 80-200 wide open at a fairly slow shutter speed.

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Stuart,

Thanks, when I said "pretty remarkable" that's because I know that you don't travel with specialist butterfly photographing gear, if you did the big eyes and hairy legs would be much clearer but you would probaly have had a less-rewarding trip. ;)

Nice to see what one can produce with fairly normal gear and the right subjects, not perfect but a good memory filed away :).

 

Was the submerged camera a total loss?

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Ivan - thank you, and I should have an itinerary for you pretty soon.

 

Pete - Thanks. Unfortunately, the "swimmer" was a total loss. Over about a three-month period I finally got a much-reduced price on a replacement FX-07, which is the basis for the C-Lux-2. The only good thing about it taking so long is that the FX-01 was no longer available to Panasonic, so they had to “make do” with the FX-07. The differences? 7.2 mega pixels vs. 5, one can boost the brightness of the LCD on record or playback for use in strong light, and one can set the LCD to show brightly and clearly from well above or well below axis, making it easier to do a low or high camera position shot (trickery in how the liquid crystals are aligned). You can see the results on NYC pages 4 & 5 on our site. Most of the images are from the FX-07, including those Chrysler Building lobby shots, and the 1.3 second handheld church interior.

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