On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:57 -0400, "Eric Weir" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been back in Atlanta since Monday [10/25]. I did a lot of shooting, > especially, of course, in the Grand Canyon. We were there only one day. > Most of the day it was overcast with occasional light rain. Which made it > possible to shoot mid-day. While we were in Phoenix my English brother > in-law and a nephew took in the Pima Air Museum, where there was an > entire exhibit devoted to the Eighth Air Force and the B-17, and the Casa > Grande Air Show, where we got to walk through a B-17 and coiuld've gone > up for a ride if we'd been willing to shell out $425 each. Got some > interesting shots at both. > > I used the 28mm lens almost exclusively. The one time when I coulda used > the 135mm, at the air show, I left it at home. After the fact I regret > not giving it more of a try at the Canyon. I was disappointed in the > results, at least as far as focus goes. They might've been better if I'd > heeded the advice to take a tripod, though I'm not at all certain of > that. Compositionally there are a few good ones. And I think I'm on the > road to getting better at getting exposure right. I've also gotten used > to having the camera with me and doing a lot of shooting. I'll need to > keep it up, though, to make it more of a habit. Hopefully it will become > natural. > > With my tentative grasp of Lightroom it's going to be a few days before I > get some of the better shots up on the web. Given the sharpness I > routinely see in the photos you guys share here, I'm almost ashamed to > show anything, but perhaps you'll be able to give me some pointers. > [There is hope: On the way back from KEH the day I bought the 135mm, > before leaving for Arizona, I stopped at the site of a former City of > Atlanta incinerator, which is apparently now being used to convert > leaves, tree branches, and other organic stuff into mulch and/or compost. > I took a bunch of pictures, and at least a few of them are pretty sharp, > at least by my standards. Or maybe that was the lens [smc m 135/3.5].] > > I could use some advice: I plan to start experimenting with a tripod. I'd > like to get a remote. Bid on a couple of Pentax Fs on eBay but lost out > due to inattentiveness. Fs seem not to show up there very often, but > there are tons of aftermarket remotes at ridiculously low prices [$3.99]. > New ones can be had for $20 or so on Amazon and elsewhere. Not knowing > any better, I'd prefer the original Pentax. Anybody have any > recommendations? >
If it's a wireless remote you're after, a cheap option is to pick up one of the old Pentax 'point and shoot' film cameras on EBay. They often go for less than $5. The remotes that came with them work fine with the DSLRs. Just make sure that the one you get is one of the ones that came with a remote (not all did). I have no experience with third party wireless remotes but I've had a couple of the Chinese wired remotes over the years. They work fine and I would expect the wireless ones to do likewise. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different... -- 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.
