On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 11:58:31AM -0600, Bob Sullivan wrote: > Let's try this again with a better breakout on the INTENDED picture > > > We went for some warm weather and sunshine in San Diego, and > took the family to see the animals. > > http://picasaweb.google.com/rf.sullivan/FeedingTheAnimals#5422361187752097474 > > DA60-250/4 - 60mm plus f5.6 @ 1/1250 & ISO 400 > (Did I say I really like this lens...) > > We went on a 'Photo Safari' - 2+ hours riding on the back of a big > truck in the animal enclosures. John Francis's pictures on the pdml > some 10 years ago got us started with this. It used to be more > serious photographers on the back of a stake backed truck. > Now they have cushions on the benches and a canvas top over the 15 or > so riders, and mainly families with point and shoot cameras. ?We took > our daughter-in-law because she had never been, and remembered pix of > feeding the giraffes from the past. I can still recommend the trip > based on the smiles we got. > Regards, ?Bob S.
You must mean this gallery: <http://www.panix.com/~johnf/gallery/sdwap.html> I think they tailor the ride to the audience of the day. While I did find several places that used all of the 600mm lens, two of the shots in that gallery were taken by my wife using her little point-and-shoot. I would expect that the 60-250 would do fairly well on a 1.5x crop DSLR. I'm glad to see there are now several of the Indian rhinos. When we were there they were pretty excited because they'd just had a calf born - I think it may even have been the first one born in the park. (And yes, they *do* look like the Durer print, don't they? :-) -- 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.
