Ask an optometrist, P. J. ;-) J
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 14, 2016, at 2:54 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well I was just driving along minding my own business when I saw this guy out > of the corner of my eye, in a pond not 20 feet from the road. Of course when > I got out to the car to take his portrait, he immediately flew to the > opposite side of the pond, but a little patience was rewarded when he caught > a fat fish. > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20successful.html > > Now the bad part, I shot half the images at really high ISO with an extra > stop of exposure dialed in because I forgot to reset everything after using > the camera yesterday. Even after correcting the ISO issue, I didn't notice > the extra stop of exposure until after I finished shooting, so I blew out all > the whites, (shooting a white bird, go figure). Finally in spite the fact > that not only did the bird appear to be in focus in the viewfinder, and the > center spot AF gave a nice green glow to the hexagonal focus confirmation > spot anytime I placed it squarely on bird, the best focus is still about a > foot in front of the bird. How the heck are you supposed to correct for > front focus in a manual focus lens anyway... > > So I processed the image with a faux Kodachrome 200 look using DXO Filmpack, > because heck, with Kodachrome almost no one managed to not blow out the > whites. > > Equipment: Pentax K5II w/smc Pentax A*300mm f4.0. > > As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. > > -- > I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve > immortality through not dying. > -- Woody Allen > > > -- > 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.
