Part of the problem is that it's a mirror telephoto zoom. These lenses
have inherently less contrast which makes focusing difficult, as does
the fact that it has a fixed aperture (which always transmits less light
than a refractory lens would). No excuses I've re-shot the photo and
I'm going to post the new version within the next few days.
Boris Liberman wrote:
Hi!
I took this shot at the same time and location as the biker chick...
http://www.mindspring.com/~webster26/PESO_--_workingboat.html
Technical Information
Pentax *ist-D ISO 1600 1/1500sec
SMCP 400-600mm Zoom @ 400mm
As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored.
Peter, there is one thing that distracts me. This is two poles in the
background. My eyes are led around the boat to its nose and zap - the
poles - what a disappointment to my weary morning eyes :).
May I ask you - how heavy is the lens? Seriously. You see, even if you
set it to 400 mm it is still 600 mm lens by weight :). So your 1/1500
sec speed is good, but it could be that you simply did not hold it
*that much* firm... Unless you used a tripod, but you did not seem to
have mentioned that.
Julia suggested that since the boat is standing on water - there could
be some blur induced by its motion on the waves... She also thinks
that the photograph is quite fine and that I did not wake up properly
today. Well, if you permit, I'd go reboot myself :).
Boris
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