On Jul 11, 2010, at 4:59 AM, Adam Maas wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > Try an eBay interval remote. They're cheap, easy to find (K20D takes > the same remote as a Canon Rebel) and shouldn't have the 99 shot > limitation.
That's a good idea. Unfortunately, my cheep radio remote doesn't do intervals. I'll keep the idea in mind the next time I have some money burning a hole in my pocket, needing to be spent on camera gear. > >> >> 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've yet to see a quiet FF DSLR. A pity since there were some _really_ > quiet AF film SLR's (the Canon Elan 7's are ridiculously quiet) > >> >> I have also been wishing that my 16-50 were 24-75 and just as fast. >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >> > > Tamron makes a great 28-75/2.8 that's reasonably cheap. Sigma makes 2 > 24-70's, one's cheap and the other is good. > > > > -Adam > > -- > 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. -- 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.
