Nice. I;'m glad you could get thar shot with out bar lines etc. I lik emy 70-210 F4 but i tend to have focus issues to. Mostly from the way i hold the barrel.
Dave On 2/18/07, Mark Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
