I agree with Bruce Paul, your ability to hand hold at thes FL's is quite amazing. This is a wonderful photo for a hand held shot. Is there any special technique you use to do this or are you just "steady handed" naturally? I've found that I need to use a shutter speed of at least 2x the focal length to assure reasonable sharpness with any physically long lens. Many can do better than this but I can't, it's quite frustrating. Any pointers for us "movers and shakers"?
Don > -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Dayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 2:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: PAW: First Robin of Spring > > > Geez Paul, I can't believe how well you can hand hold. I put that new > 400 on without a converter and it is hard to hold still. I can see > that I have lots of practicing to do. > > -- > Best regards, > Bruce > > > Saturday, February 5, 2005, 3:20:22 PM, you wrote: > > pcn> The temperature reached almost 50 degrees F in Michigan > pcn> today. I went shooting on the banks of the Rouge River and was > pcn> surprised to see a few Robins. It seems a bit early for these > pcn> spring arrivals, but I'm not complaining. Maybe they know > pcn> something we don't. Here's one. Again, this is handheld with the > pcn> *istD, tha A 400/5.6 and the A2XS converter. So the fov is > pcn> equivelant to a 1200 mm lens on a 35mm camera. ISO 800, f 5.6 @ > pcn> 1/1000. > pcn> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3095297&size=lg > > > >
