On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Doug Franklin wrote: > > Antishake is pretty clever. I'm hand holding below my old cutoff, 1/45. > Awesome! I can't wait to try it.
I was playing around last night, and while I didn't pull the images off the camera, using an FA28, I was able to handhold to non-blurriness for a 1sec exposure. Now, I couldn't repeat that more than twice out of probably 10 exposures, but I'm not exactly the most stable camera platform out there. :) > Really? Even when the camera is in sequential exposure mode? (Or > whatever they call it) On the *ist D, single exposure mode is shown as > a rectangle in the LCD. Sequential exposure mode is shown as what's to > look like a stack of rectangles, sort of like Yep, although that was the first night I had it. I had to go through a menu to turn on both sequential and the wireless remote, so in hindsight maybe I turned off the ability to use anything but the wireless. I apologize, I haven't gone back down that route since the first night when I was disappointed to find out the wireless didn't work how I wanted it to. > No, but having my 300/4.5 "turn into" a 450/4.5 is pretty handy and > pretty cool. And having my 400/5.6 "turn into" a 600/5.6 is even better > sometimes. Not to mention that since you're only using the center of > the lens' coverage, you typically get better sharpness out to the edges > of the digital image. Then again, I use long lenses far more than short > ones. Different strokes, I preferred shorter over longer. Mater of fact, the only long lens I ever owned was a Sigma 70-300. > I really wish the *ist D showed the ASA/ISO in the viewfinder or on the > top LCD panel. I keep forgetting to reset the darned thing. :-) I just > noticed a minute ago that the photos I added to the "Stuck Filter" > thread a couple of days ago were shot at ASA 1600, a leftover from the > night shots at the Petit le Mans a week ago. I have the ISO set to automagic mode so I don' thave to be bothered learning another thing at this point. > Not for me. When I'm panning fast moving racecars, I've found that the > AF is usually "behind" what I'm seeing in the viewfinder. I think it I think at this point, its mostly a feature that I'm completely out of my element with. I'm used to how my ZX-5n worked, and I've grown to be happy with it. As time moves on, I may find the AF thing to be desireable, or I may just turn it off and lock it to a single AF point in the middle. > They can go into newer Photoshop versions (CS1 and above?) that have > Adobe Camera Raw installed. Oh. Err, free download? I have a copy of CS2 I've been evaluating on my Mac... > That's "technically" known as "chimping". It can cause you to miss > shots and cause you to be ridiculed by your photographic compatriots. > If you do it in the wrong place, like on the Jersey barrier beside a > race track, it can get you killed. :-) I've spent the last three years or so using view cameras almost exclusivly, so my concept of "rapid action" is way different than yours. Heh. > "Hyper" mode is awesome. ...Er.. wait, wozzthat? > The major bummer from my perspective is a buffer small enough to fill > the way I use the camera. On the MZ-S, I've shot as many as fifteen in > quick succession as a big incident on the track unfolded. For me, the > five/six shot buffer on the *ist D is OK 90% of the time, but that other > 10% it's really a pain in the neck waiting on the camera to write the > buffer. Shooting in raw, at the highest res, I notice that I can fill the buffer after like 3 shots, if that. Then again, I didn't realize that the speed of the SD card also functioned into all this, so when I bought memory, I bought on price not performance. Whoops. -- http://www.infotainment.org <-> more fun than a poke in your eye. http://www.eighteenpercent.com <-> photography and portfolio. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
