Red Squirrel portrait, by David M
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David M hails from Ontario, Canada and his picture we're featuring is a fellow resident of Ontario, a red squirrel. I like the sharpness David has achieved where it matters - on the nose and paws. And the de-focussed areas are also attractive, exhibiting good bokeh. It turns out that David used an 'old' lens from the days of film: "It's the full frame and taken with an Olympus E-3, the legacy OM 350mm f2.8 and the EC-14 teleconverter mounted on a Gitzo tripod with the legs fully spread so it was only few inches off the ground." David had been comparing the performance of the modern EC-14 converter with the original 1.4 converter that was designed for the 350mm OM telephoto at least a couple of decades ago. Whatever, it seems to be doing the job just nicely!
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