That is a nice shot, especially for a zoo. Nice work. -- Bruce
Sunday, February 18, 2007, 12:52:30 PM, you wrote: ME> All, ME> The family went to the zoo this morning, and I brought my *ist-Ds and SMC-A ME> 70-210 F/4 kit with me. I find it really hard to get animal pics at the zoo ME> that aren't obviously zoo pictures. With this one, I finally got lucky and ME> got a clean shot of one of the Sumatran tigers at the zoo: ME> http://www.westerickson.net/mark/misc/tiger.jpg ME> Photograph notes: Camera at 1/125 and ISO400, lens zoomed all the out to ME> 210 and wide open at F/4. ME> Getting the focus right with the 70-210 is hard! I had several others that ME> were not quite in focus. Fortune smiled on me and the best composition ME> ended up as the sharpest. My focus issues were probably a combination of ME> the slow shutter sped and genuine focus issues. I probably should have shot ME> at ISO800 and 1/250. ME> There are only about 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild, and about 300 in ME> captivity. The pair at the Sacramento zoo just gave birth to three male ME> cubs in November. ME> --Mark -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
