My friend Beau and I are the photographers for an Aikido workshop this weekend in Santa Cruz. I'm definitely stretching some of my skills shooting in another new environment. Not trusting my timing or focus, I'm shooting a metric buttload (2.2 US buttloads) of photos. I've been too busy to really look at anything I've taken since Wednesday.
One of the things that I've been doing is setting the K20 up in the high, back corner of the Santa Cruz Civic, on the interval timer, getting a shot every minute, or minute and a half. It shows the room filling up as people come in for class, and the dynamics of the room as people listen to the instructor, or practice technique. It is, however, quite frustrating that I can only shoot 99 frames on the interval timer. To do a stop action movie, I'd much rather shoot them every 10 seconds or so, but if I want it to last a two hour class, I have to pull the time back to 90 seconds. Likewise, for an hour class, I shoot once a minute to get some of the things going on before and after class. I've also found that manually focusing my sigma 20/1.8 at those distances can be subtle and tricky. One thing that I've noticed is that Beau's D700 is hella loud. It makes the K-x seem whisper quiet in comparison. I have also been wishing that my 16-50 were 24-75 and just as fast. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
