Simone in the Dewy Bug Swamp, Paradise Michigan

[RBSinTo]

This was taken about fifteen years ago on one of our Excellent Adventures in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
We were walking through a shallow swamp at sunrise trying to photograph Damsel Flies while they were still inactive from the cold.
I liked the way our friend Simone looked in the early morning light, and grabbed this shot.
motorized Nikon FA
zoom-Nikkor 80~200 2.8 ED AIS manual focus
Ektachrome 100 ISO colour slide
2.8 @ 1/250th

[Bjørn Rørslett]

A good capture and nice light. I used a very long lens last time, what lens is this?

[RBSinTo]

Thanks Bjorn.
The lens was my zoom-Nikkor 80~200 2.8 ED AIS.
Very big and heavy, and uses 95mm filters (!!!!!).
But very sharp.
Robert

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Thanks. I'm familiar with that particular lens, as I have one of them myself

They are rarely seen these days, though.

If memory serves, I might have used the 600/4 for the damselflies (dancing in the last rays of sunlight)

[RBSinTo]

As I recall only about 1,500 of them were made before Nikon started producing the first auto-focus version of the lens.
I got mine on ebay about ten or eleven years ago. I was the only bidder and paid about $500.00 for it.
Robert