Most of the serious panning was done hand-held. I did leave SR enabled while using the 250-600 on a monopod, and it certainly didn't make things any worse.
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 11:50:05PM -0700, Bruce Dayton wrote: > Hello John, > > Were you panning fully handheld or were you using a monopod? > > -- > Bruce > > > Monday, August 6, 2007, 11:33:22 PM, you wrote: > > > JF> I've just used my K10D for a weekend of motorsports photography. > JF> This is the first time I've tried using the shake reduction while > JF> panning, and I was interested to see how it would work. > > JF> The short answer is - very well. According to some technical > JF> reports that I've seen the shake reduction is frequency-limited. > JF> Whether that is the reason or not the camera appears to allow > JF> me to pan without trying to compensate for that, while at the > JF> same time smoothing out any uneveness in the motion. > > JF> One thing that does have a problem, though, is using an AF TC > JF> (such as my 1.4x) with an AF lens. The camera thinks that the > JF> focal length in use is that of the lens, and there's no way to > JF> override it! This guarantees that the shake reduction is going > JF> to under-correct for any problems it detects :-( > > > > > > -- > 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
