Thursday
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ku # 720 ~ Tiger Swallowtail butterflies
Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 02:38PM 
Tiger Swallowtail butterflies ~ in the Adirondack PARK - Au Sable Forks, NY • click to embiggenYesterday afternoon, quite a few Tiger Swallowtail (?) butterflies visited a large blossom bearing shrub next to our house.
I noticed them as I was heading out to the grocery store. As always, my Olympus E-P1 with 20mm f1.7 Lumix prime/pancake lens was hanging from from my shoulder so I spent about 20 minutes following the little things around and making pictures.
Considering the fact that the E-P1 has a "bad" rap as a slow-focusing POS, I nevertheless was able to make quite a number of very good pictures of the butterflies as they twitched and jerked and fluttered their way in, out and all around the blossoms.
Reader Comments (2)
Considering the fact that the E-P1 has a "bad" rap as a slow-focusing POS
Mark,
And the manual focus ? I guess you tried ?
Kind regards
Nicolas - I have no problem with the E-P1 AF. As these pictures demonstrate, the AF does just fine, thank you very much, even with a subject that jumps and jerks about quite quickly.
For less quick-focus situations - landscapes, still life, portrait, etc. - I use the AF with manual assist setting. The manual focus works just fine.