All, The family went to the zoo this morning, and I brought my *ist-Ds and SMC-A 70-210 F/4 kit with me. I find it really hard to get animal pics at the zoo that aren't obviously zoo pictures. With this one, I finally got lucky and got a clean shot of one of the Sumatran tigers at the zoo:
http://www.westerickson.net/mark/misc/tiger.jpg Photograph notes: Camera at 1/125 and ISO400, lens zoomed all the out to 210 and wide open at F/4. Getting the focus right with the 70-210 is hard! I had several others that were not quite in focus. Fortune smiled on me and the best composition ended up as the sharpest. My focus issues were probably a combination of the slow shutter sped and genuine focus issues. I probably should have shot at ISO800 and 1/250. There are only about 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild, and about 300 in captivity. The pair at the Sacramento zoo just gave birth to three male cubs in November. --Mark -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
