I was just in a pissy mood last night, I think.
I know how hard it must be to do what you're doing and nail down the focus of moving animals with the aperture wide open. Actually, I don't know, because I've never tried it. I can imagine it's difficult, though.
As I indicated in my original post, many of the photos I did like, even ones where the focus was off just a tad.
Just ignore me when I get that way.
cheers, frank
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
From: "Herb Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: birds and turtles Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 06:46:51 -0400
manual focus wide open on a long lens. at 50 feet, the DOF is a couple of inches, barely a wiggle on the focus ring and very hard to see in the viewfinder. mostly, the subjects are moving and i can't move the focus ring fast enough to keep up. AF would have caught the right point, if it were available. i'm shooting at longer ranges and smaller subjects. i had about 10 seconds to aim my camera and focus before the beaver dived. i think my percentage would have been higher with AF. 10 seconds is the typical time i have to aim and focus before the subject has moved enough to require moving and refocusing. the swan and turtle pictures are where i could have stopped down to f5.6 and gotten a little more DOF. otherwise, the shutter speeds would have been too low and i would have gotten vibration blur. image stablization is something i am looking forward to.
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