Thanks Christian. Yes, it's a bit noisy. I'm usually stuck at ISO 800 with the 2X converter on that 5.6 lens. Here, I might have been able to go to ISO 400. I had the shutter up to 1/800th. I'll keep trying. Paul On Mar 10, 2007, at 10:07 AM, Christian wrote:
> Paul Stenquist wrote: >> I'm taking up way too much bandwidth, but I'm very recently unemployed >> (thank you Ford for going in the toilet) and have nothing else to do. >> (More on that some other time.) Anyway, PESOs are better than silly >> flame wars. Here's another one from the nature center. It's a male >> house finch. I cheated and used a monopod. The flash fired this time >> as >> well (AF 540 FGZ with Kirk Xtender in high speed synch mode). ISO 800, >> f5.6 @ 1/800th. K10D with A-400/5.6 and A2X-S converter. Fun in the >> forest. >> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5700067&size=lg >> >> > > It has a lot of potential, Paul. The composition is great, the bird is > pretty (but house finches are evil imports and all of them should be > destroyed! :-) ). It's a nice pose, the background is good, the perch > is good, but... The noise is too much for me and there is a general > softness overall. Really, though, it is a nice shot. BTW, looks like > there's some dust on your sensor :-) > > -- > > Christian > http://photography.skofteland.net > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
