Graydon, Couldn't that be the 60-250mm set at 196mm? As for needing something longer for birds, I learned with film that I couldn't afford it. Mirror lenses have those annoying rings, and anything bigger/faster than A400/5.6 is $$$$$. For birds, you need to set-up in a hide. My current alligator farm photos used A300mm f4, A300mm with a AF1.7, or a AF70-200/2.8. The situation was very favorable, but that's what you need. Regards, Bob S.
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Graydon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 03:13:39PM -0600, William Robb scripsit: >> From: "Margus M?nnik" >> > Random tourist (Tallinn Old City is full of 'em) shot at f/5.6. I >> > was going to shoot a church tower in background and she simply >> > walked into the frame... >> > http://nagi.ee/photos/photo_sizes.php?id=10408771&size=o&album_id=148643 >> > (full size, untouched jpeg from camera) >> > >> > So, boys and girls, we're doomed. There's nothing to whine about >> > Pentax (long zoom) lenses quality any more - all those hundreds and >> > thousands of crappy pictures will be our own fault. >> >> Damn. This kind of things might make me change my plans.... > > It's a gorgeous picture, but I do wonder about a couple bits of the > EXIF, particularly > > SR Result : Stabilized > Shake Reduction : Unknown (15) > SR Half Press Time : 4.25 s or longer > SR Focal Length : 196 mm > > That would seem to indicate that SR was on, that the lens is unknown to > the firmware, and that the actual focal length is less than 200mm > despite the lens being set at 250mm. (Which I understand is a plausible > result of distance-to-subject in some designs.) > > I would be curious as to anyone else's interpretation of that EXIF > information. > > -- Graydon > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
