Tom's Parents' Fox
Here is another picture of our fox. I was getting ready yesterday to take some pictures with a rather long lens when he slowly crossed the back yard about 50 feet away from me. He was in no hurry and not a bit scared. Maybe I am the one who should be scared!
Incidentally, that picture was taken with an old 180mm Leica lens, which is the same lens I used to take my favorite raccoon picture. It fits on the new camera via an adaptor. I hadn't used any of those lenses in five years. No automatic focus, and can use automatic exposure only by using the viewing aperture as the taking aperture. (With single lens reflex cameras, a lens coupled with the camera will allow you to view through the lens to compose a full aperture, then automatically close down to a preset aperture for taking the picture.) With the Leica lenses, I have to view at the "taking aperture", or else compose and shut down to taking aperture just before shooting. But, with using longer lenses, I usually try to shoot close to full aperture anyway, in order to take the picture as the highest possible shutter speed needed for the longer lenses.
The 35mm lenses fit on this camera on a 1.6 ratio, because the sensor is smaller than the 35mm film size. So a 180mm lenses "converts" (really crops) to a 288mm.