Photo Notes

I shot 20 rolls of film on the two week trip. The animal close-ups were taken with my big white Canon 100-400mm zoom lens. Most of these shots were taken using autofocus and image stabilization. Between using the IS and resting the lens on the Land Rover, I had virtually no shots wasted due to camera shake. The very small, fast moving animals might be out of focus; but most of the animals cooperated by posing nicely. Most of the people and landscape shots on the Tamron lens were manually focused. The A2 did a great job of exposure control. I set the exposure manually on backlit shots and shots with subjects that were either very light or very dark. I used a polarizing filter when there was a significant amount of water or sky in the shot.

Cameras: Canon A2 and EOS Rebel
Lens: Canon 4.5/5.6 100-400 IS and Tamron 2.8 28-135
Film: Kodak Ektachrome 100, Fuji Provia 400, and Fuji Sensia 400 slide film

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