On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 03:33:56PM -0400, Igor PDML-StR wrote: > > I noticed this TV commercial from Marriott rewards: > https://youtu.be/XMEIq3Y8N2A?t=11s > At 11 s, the photographer is shown with his hand holding to a patio frame, > with the long zoom holding on top of his forearm. > > I can think of an argument that this way of bracing provides him some > stability. > To me that looked rather weird: he cannot control the focus (and zoom if it > is a zoom lens) this way. If you were photographing wild animals, that > sounds very unreasonable (unless you have some limited > functionality/stability in your left hand, or some other physical > limitations). > > What do you think?
I think he's using a camera with a good enough auto-focus system that he doesn't need to worry about having to tinker with the focus (and, for wildlife, he's probably shooting at the long end of the zoom range). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
