On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Cesar Matamoros II <[email protected]> wrote: > I attended a car/motorcycle show today. I took my *ist D along with a > couple of LX and my 67. I did not shoot the 67. Due to the bright sunshine > I decided to use my Sekonic L-358 (in incident mode) because I could readily > switch the reading between two ISO settings. I admit to being lazy, I did > not want to estimate how much I needed to underexpose to get a good photo. > I also had my Sekonic Studio Deluxe 398 and Minolta Flash Meter III in the > car. > Due to space constraints I needed a wide angle lens. I used the 31 Limited > on the LX and the M 1:4 20mm on the *ist D. > This shot was at 1/1000 at f/8. > But dealing with the subject line, I have shot with Nikon and Canon lenses > in the past and always had to be aware of where the sun was in the shot. > Not with Pentax. An example is at: > http://cesar_abdul.home.mindspring.com/prfb1965.jpg > This is a Poppy Red 1965 High Performance GT Pony Interior Fastback. I used > to have one that did not have the High Performance engine and had a black > Pony Interior. As you can see there are highlights from the sun. It was > almost too harsh for the naked eye, but the lens had no problem. > > Comments appreciated...
Love those colours! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
