Nice capture. You sure got his attention - did you wave a steak or small child in front of him?
Kenneth Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: PESO: Sumatran Tiger > 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
