Yes, it's a little grainy. I misspoke below. It was actually ISO 800 and cropped. The feeder this shaded by a tree. Not a lot of light. I needed 800 just to get 1/90th shutter. Since I'm using the A2XS converter, the working stop is f11 wide open on my A 400 5.6. Paul On Jun 17, 2006, at 9:28 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
> You may recall I put up a trap focus "frozen finch" image several > months back. Same shape feeder used, but made of screen wire rather > than what appears to be plastic. Thistle seeds pulled through the > screen at a surprising rate. Have counted up to 10 finches on the > feeder at the same time. > Interesting "pose". Soft somewhat grainy texture..a matter of style. > > Jack > > --- Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> A friend gave me a goldfinch feeder and a bag of thistle seed. The >> feeder requires the birds to eat hanging upside down. Apparently, >> goldfinches are among the few species that can do this. After a few >> weeks, I now have a flock of goldfinches that visits on a regular >> basis. They're very small and easily spooked. They don't seem to >> alight >> on branches near the feeder, so "natural" shots are not likely. So >> today I set up the *istD with the A400/5.6 and the A2XS converter. I >> attached a remote shutter release, so I could shoot down to 1/90th or >> >> so. I think this was at 5.6 @ 1/90th, ISO 400. It's cropped to about >> half the frame. On the tripod of course. >> >> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4575075 >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
