The Lapwing...

(Vanellus vanellus).

On Texel,  but around my own village too, there are massive amounts of lapwings. This makes it easy to view them and study their behaviour too.

Quite interesting to see that they defend their eggs and newlings with great determination!

 

27 april 2008, field at "de Grensweg", in "de Dennen".

D70 & Maksutov 1000mm + 2x converter

D70 & Maksutov 1000mm + 2x converter

D70 & Maksutov 1000mm + 2x converter

It seemes that I have progessed over the year with my  "Long lens" - technique, and now it turns out, that my good old Maksutov 1000mm has even the power to bear a 1,7x and a 2x converter before it.

At home, during the image processing, I was amazed by the remaining sharpness! Of course this is only possible with bright day light conditions, but now I could see the hatchlings without disturbing them!

An additional bonus is the diminishing of the typical  "donuts"- effect. So this page turns out to be an little hommage to a very underestimated lens.

Meet the Maksutov 1000mm mirror again!

 

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