Looks sharp enough to me. Then again I've been known to have rather low standards in that department. ;-)
Nice pic. Cheers, Frank --- Original Message --- From: "P. J. Alling" <[email protected]> Sent: November 20, 2011 11/20/11 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: PESO -- Chopper On 11/20/2011 7:33 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > 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. As you can tell neither have I... > > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- 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. -- 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.

