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[1948-11-21] first photographs showed the ghost track 
of a bird going off the nest. They 
seemed at first to get more wary of 
the camera and stayed off for periods 
of up to half-an-hour. However the two 
eggs in the nest eventually lured the 
birds back and as they stayed while 
the shutter clicked a total of 18 shots 
of nest and nest and bird were 
obtained. All were taken at a distance 
of 18 inches but the aperture and exposure 
were varied and varying instructive 
results were obtained. Focus was an 
inch or two proximal to the estimated 
focus; bright sunlight in a bush such 
as a rhododendron gives far too strong 
dappling; and a twig comes rather 
too close into the picture for the camera 
should have been further round to the 
right. Those are the things I wanted 
to find out as well as the fact that 
the lens are a very good investment indeed. 
While waiting for the birds to come 
