On Sunday, November 20, 2011 11:20 AM, "P. J. Alling" <[email protected]> wrote: > From yesterday, the crowd was buzzed by an angry giant dragonfly... > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20chopper.html > > Notes: Not quite as sharp as I'd have liked it to be, could be due to > the fact that I forgot to enter the correct focal length. The AS system > thought that this was shot a 70mm while the actual focal length was more > like 350mm. > > Equipment: Pentax K20D w/smc Pentax F 70-210 f4.0~5.6 w/smc Pentax F > 1.7x AF adapter.
I was expecting something like this: http://www.moviecritic.com.au/images/chopper-eric-bana.jpg Helicopters are difficult (for me anyway). Trying to get a shutter speed slow enough to give the blades a nice blur but fast enough to get a sharp fuselage while panning is something I haven't mastered. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web -- 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.
