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I was out on a bicycle ride on the trail system in Beaverton, Oregon, with my Canon T-90. This photo was taken with a Canon 50mm, F-1.4 lens of one of the ponds. I was interested in documenting the cat tails and the growth of aquatic flora that I had not seen before. I liked the patterns and the texture of this image. John

Yes, I realized that after I looked it up, that Canon did not make a FD 58mm lens. But my FL 55mm f-1.2 does have that stop-down feature. I am going to upload a photo from a bicycle ride I took a few weeks back. I took along my Canon T-90, with my FD 70-210mm F-4 lens on it. It's not a top-of-the-line lens, but it's the one I've got. While on the bicyle trail, I found what at first I thought was a very large dog, only to look closer and see it was a very small pony, a Shetland pony that had gotten out of the home's yard and was loose on the open area beneath the powerlines where the bicycle trail also went through. It was a grassy park. The owner, a woman had "lost" two ponies, and had taken the one by the bridle into the yard, and was calling the other. It started running, and I got this shot of it on the move. Shutter speed, I think, was 125th second, and the lens was wide open at F-4. The film was Kodak 100TMAX. John

I have a Canon FL 55mm, f-1.2 lens that has a small ring with "A" (automatic) or "M" (manual) for using the lens independently in stop-down mode. When set to the "M" setting, the lens stops down independent of the camera. This would help with a digital camera incapable of metering an FL lens. Apparently Canon dropped this when they made the FD 58mm, f-1.2 lens. So do you have an FD or FL lens? John

<p>Thanks Ben. At least I got the "S" correct. ;)</p> <p>John</p>

<p>I forgot to say that for my photo of the Northern Pike Minnow, the film was Ectachrome 100, and the lens setting on the 50mm Macro Lens was probably F-8 or F-5.6. The shutter speed was 1/60 second too. </p> <p>John</p>

<p>Okay, here's a shot I took with my Canon F-1N, 50mm Macro lens and an Ikelite strobe in an Ikelite housing. The shot was taken while scuba diving in the Clackamas River at High Rocks, near Gladstone, Oregon. I then scanned the photo and have used it several times. This is a Northern Pike Minnow, <em>Ptychocheilus oregonensis, </em>which had been hooked by a fisherman, but which had tangled the line in a rock on the bottom. The fisherman had broken the line, but the fish was still hooked. So I took its photo, then used my dive knife to release the fish. <br> John<br> <img src="/bboard//i3.photobucket.com/albums/y76/yaquinaguy/Northern%20Pike%20Minnow1_zpsazs0hrnh.jpg" alt="" /></p><div></div>

<p>Mark,<br> The self-timer is located at the top of the camera, under the shutter release button. You will see a little switch for moving the camera from "L," which is "Lock," to "A," which is Automatic. That's the setting for use with most work, and will release the shutter when the top button is pushed. But on that same slide is, on the other side, the notation "S." That is the self-time; I just confirmed that on my camera. The F-1N is so much easier to use than my brand new EOS 70 D, that I should get some film and get some macro photos, using the self-timer, for Sunday's snow storm. <br> John</p><div></div>