Show off! I was wondering there what you'd choose as your crop. ;-/ (Do all the women in Australia have that many freckles?)
Don (Freckle Lover) > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Studdert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 4:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Hand holding long lenses (Was PESO - Coming in for a landing) > > > On 29 Nov 2004 at 23:01, Boris Liberman wrote: > > > 300x2x1.5 = 900 mm of focal length. So you can handhold this... Do > > tell me how. I cannot handhold F 70-210 at 210 mm and 1/250 sec - the > > shake is evident... I know, I know - I haven't been drinking coffee > > ever since that post. And I drink just few cups of tea every day. > > Hi Boris, > > I'm not speaking for Christian but I think that you will find > that practice > helps a lot and from my experience after you have got good hand holding > techniques well practised focus will be your worst enemy. > > I was shooting a lot over the weekend with my FA200/2.8 and 1.7TC > on the *ist D > always hand held and there were very few images which were ruined > by camera > shake particularly those shot at 1/800th or faster. > > The following shot was made using the lens combo above at a > shutter speed of > 1/800 @ f7.1 ISO200 > > http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP8884.jpg FF shot > scaled to 25% > http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP8884crop.jpg 100% crop > > Cheers, > > > Rob Studdert > HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA > Tel +61-2-9554-4110 > UTC(GMT) +10 Hours > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ > Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 >
