Plena lens for wildlife

[ssheipel]

Shot with the Nikkor Plena (135 1.8 lens), Nikon's latest wildlife lens offering A male and female Green Frog -- note the distinguishing yellow throat and larger-than-the eye tympanic membrane that marks a male; and the black mottling under the chin (that extends under the body) and the about-eye-sized typanic membrane that distinguishes the females. You can also see on both the ridge (called a fold) down the backs -- the appearance of this tells us these are not American Bullfrogs which do not have those ridges. I do not know the species type of the mosquitoes captured in the male frog shot Nicely, as I was packing up the pond frog chorus sang my exit. Love that sound. Oddly but for the call of a few song sparrows singing, this location normally thick with birds including RWB and Grackles, was silent; I was hoping to try a bird shot or two for anybody willing to alight close enough, but I did go specifically for the frogs

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[Hooligans Imagery]

Plena beautiful. Curious how many f stops you tried. Both are excellent Steven.

 

[ChrisSinSeattle]

Steven,
Great capture and good example of the Piena lens use
Chris S.

 

[Larry S.]

Excellent Steven…. I’m seriously thinking of jumping on the Plena bandwagon. It simply delivers in situations where other lenses fall a bit short.

 

[Larry S.]

Shot with the Nikkor Plena (135 1.8 lens), Nikon's latest wildlife lens offering A male and female Green Frog -- note the distinguishing yellow throat and larger-than-the eye tympanic membrane that marks a male; and the black mottling under the chin (that extends under the body) and the about-eye-sized typanic membrane that distinguishes the females. You can also see on both the ridge (called a fold) down the backs -- the appearance of this tells us these are not American Bullfrogs which do not have those ridges. I do not know the species type of the mosquitoes captured in the male frog shot Nicely, as I was packing up the pond frog chorus sang my exit. Love that sound. Oddly but for the call of a few song sparrows singing, this location normally thick with birds including RWB and Grackles, was silent; I was hoping to try a bird shot or two for anybody willing to alight close enough, but I did go specifically for the frogs

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Yup,….going out to shoot is like a “box of chocolates” ya’ just don’t know what you’ll get….nice!

 

[DripDryMcFleye]

Thanks for the very informative write up! It happens that I, just about a week ago, photographed both sexes of the GREEN frog without realizing it. I thought they were BULLFROGS>