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"I knew in a flash it must be Jabarani."
White lions had always intrigued me, but it wasn't until a guide in South Africa
asked me if I wanted to photograph one, that I finally had the opportunity to
encounter the real thing. Naturally, I leapt at the chance.
We set out early the next day, and I was scanning the bush through the viewfinder
of my E-1 when suddenly - thanks to the excellent background defocusing of the
ZUIKO DIGITAL super-telephoto I had mounted - this beauty seemed to float up
out of the underbrush. I knew in a flash it must be Jabarani, a direct descendant
of a white lion first sighted in the wild in the 1970s. Now living on a game
reserve, Jabarani didn't really move around as much as I'd hoped, which made
it extremely difficult to get the right angle.
I generally avoid using a tripod as much as possible, and on this occasion I
was simply shooting out the window of my guide's car. That's one of the things
I love about the Four Thirds System - it opens up a world of 600mm super-telephoto
shooting possibilities with a hand-held camera. And since most wild animals are
active early and late in the day, lens brightness is always the most important
consideration. So for me, the combination of the Four Thirds System and ZUIKO
DIGITAL lenses is truly ideal.
*The Zuiko Digital ED300mm F2.8 is a super-telephoto lens with a focal length
equivalent to 600mm on a 35mm camera.
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