Believe it or not 1/125 sec. I have plenty of others that are at 1/2 sec or so that are not quite so sharp.
Rick Womer wrote: > These are really nice, Peter. What sorts of shutter speeds were you using? > They're very sharp for hand-held shots. > > Rick > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > > --- On Wed, 7/9/08, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> From: P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: PESO -- Fireworks NY 2008 I >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >> Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 11:38 AM >> I went with a friends to the 4th of July fireworks in NY >> this last week >> and in spite of the rain it was a very good time. I >> carried the Dx with >> an A 24 FA 43 and vacillated between a 55 f1.8 or 85 f2.0 >> and finally >> decided on the real telephoto. I didn't take a tripod, >> was really >> looking to do some crowd/people shooting but I shot quite a >> lot of the >> fireworks anyway. Some of them weren't half bad. >> >> Just a bit of carping, I noticed when I opened almost all >> the fireworks >> files into any raw converter I could get some very subtle >> colors in the >> actual fireworks. However when I loaded them into >> Photoshop (7.0) for >> final editing, when they were converted to the working >> color space many >> of those colors were lost. This image had much more >> vibrant blues and >> reds, which Photoshop just washed out. I tried a number of >> different >> color spaces in the raw converter including sRGB and every >> one did the >> same thing. Oh well, another damned mystery. >> >> http://home.earthlink.net/~morephotos/fireworks/PESO%20--%20fwny2008_01.html >> >> Equipment: Pentax *ist-Ds/smc Pentax M 85mm f2.0 >> >> As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. >> >> >> -- >> You get further with a kind word and a gun, than with a >> kind word alone. >> --Al Capone. >> >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > > -- You get further with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone. --Al Capone. -- 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.
