You might want to check out a 1,2x eyemushling. I have one, and it improves my MF by a larger factor than 1,2. I could not live without one :-)
Tim Typo ----- Original Message ----- From: "David J Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 8:13 PM Subject: Re: Low light prime > http://picasaweb.google.com/pentkon52/General/photo#5151329114707267538 > > Just grabed a shot that shows more or less the lighting. > > I focused manually on the guitar, but as you can see, the stuff in the > back ground is in perfect focus, using my eye not the focus > confirmation info.. Look at the green guitar. > > I use a Nikon 18-70 inside for my equine shots(flash ) and the > lighting is almost non existent, but get a decent success rate. I > don't know why all of these were off. At first i thought it was just > low shutter speeds and motion blur, but then i noticed all the back > grounds we;re OOF. II shot at f 1.7/2 most of the time so i should > have shallow DOF. > > Dave > > On Jan 3, 2008 1:34 PM, Charles Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Jan 3, 2008, at 11:03, David J Brooks wrote: >> > Any way, last year i wanted to shoot more natural light, as apposed to >> > flash, and that was 1 reason i ordered >> > the 77 lt, but iot came in to late. I used my A 50 f1.7 but for some >> > reason back focused all the shots. I went with what my eye told me was >> > focused, not the beep and AF confirmation light. >> > >> >> Even when I use the AUTO focus on my FA50 f1.7, I find that it does >> not focus accurately at all in dim tungsten lighting. Bleah. So I >> wouldn't be too sure that the confirmation light/beeps would be any >> help. >> >> -Charles >> >> -- >> Charles Robinson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Minneapolis, MN >> http://charles.robinsontwins.org >> >> >> >> -- >> >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > Equine Photography > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > Ontario Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1207 - Release Date: > 02.01.2008 11:29 > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
