Totally OT - Chocolate covered jalapenos. Now there's a combination to be marketed! Sounds like a winner combining the 'feel good' chocolate effects and the endorphines produced by the capsaicin burn.
Tom C. >From: "Bob Blakely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Metering Question >Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 14:49:37 -0700 > >No one here says it would be easier. Further, no one cares if you choose to >hand hold because you find it easier. That's your business. > >I question the idea that it's "...almost impossible to frame correctly when >using a tripod." ... and shooting a train was your example. This may be >true >for you and/or with the gear with which you tried it, but a tripod, as in >all tripods, seems pretty broad. > >I have an excellent Gitzo pan head for use with my movie camera. Works >pretty damn good. Control is excellent. I've never put any of my Pentax >gear >on it though. > >Regards, >Bob... >-------------------------------------------------------- >"Life isn't like a box of chocolates . . >it's more like a jar of jalapenos. >What you do today, might burn your butt tomorrow." > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Glen Tortorella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >I have done it many times. It is much easier when holding the camera > > with one's hands. > > > > Glen > > > > On Sep 7, 2007, at 3:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> I have no idea what you're asking. You said the movie folk make it > >> look easy. I tried to explain that while it may look easy in the > >> finished product, it takes a lot of work to get there. Nothing > >> more. Peter attempted to make the same point. When shooting with a > >> camera on tripod with a movie head or any head, you don't get a > >> chance to frame before you shoot -- assuming you haven't hired a > >> train and crew to work with you. You make your best guess and try > >> to keep the train in frame as it roars by. That's easier when > >> you're handholding. Been there, done that. > >> Paul > >> -------------- Original message ---------------------- > >> From: "Bob Blakely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> You keep the train in frame the "frame" of your choice until you > >>> pass the > >>> point of shutter trip. You can know where that point is whether > >>> you hand > >>> hold or use a tripod. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> Bob... > >>> -------------------------------------------------------- > >>> "Life isn't like a box of chocolates . . > >>> it's more like a jar of jalapenos. > >>> What you do today, might burn your butt tomorrow." > >>> > >>> ----- Original Message ----- > >>> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> > >>> > >>>> And the movie folk get as many takes as they want. "Okay, back > >>>> her up and > >>>> do it again." > >>> > >>> And you don't - and the difference between your hand holding and > >>> letting a > >>> movie head hold the weight of the camera and reduce vibration > >>> is... what? > >>> > >>>> Not to mention that they can get their frame and focus with the > >>>> train > >>>> parked. > >>> > >>> And you THINK you can't - and the difference between your hand > >>> holding and > >>> letting a movie head hold the weight of the camera and reduce > >>> vibration > >>> is... what? > >>> > >>>> G[e]nerally, they mark the lens for different focus points along the > >>>> track, and as the train moves with the camera rolling, the camera > >>>> assistant "pulls focus." > >>> > >>> And you don't have this convenience - and the difference between > >>> your hand > >>> holding and letting a movie head hold the weight of the camera and > >>> reduce > >>> vibration is... what? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> 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 > > > > > > -- > > 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
