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Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM – Review
This is basically a review I wrote in 2009 right after I got this lens, but updated with the now three years of experience using it.
It has a metal mount, the lens is light (at about 600g) and feels very balanced on my 450D (keep in mind all I say is based in a 1.6x crop camera, I don’t know how it behaves in a fullframe).
Placement of the focus ring is after the zoom ring, which I like. I don’t know if it’s a standard in zoom all lenses but I noticed you can also zoom it by push and pull, instead of using the zoom ring.… Continue reading
Larvae living on jelly
A gooey looking transparent insect, when I encontered it last year I thought it could be the larva of a either a fly or a neuroptera, after a bit of research it turns to be the larva of a crane fly, prior tipulid and now placed in it’s own family, Limoniidae.
The majority of species in this family have aquatic larvae, and only three recent papers makes observations of larvae living in terrestrial habitat surrounded by a mass of jelly. These observations were all very similar and on species of the same genus, Geranomyia, in Costa Rica and the Fiji, I believe this one is also Geranomyia.… Continue reading