The trick is to shoot at a rate wherein the buffer is filled with images of the proper pixel weight to offset the diminishing battery power.
Jack --- Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's the same principle for your camera having slightly more mass > after > installing a fresh set of batteries. If you pay close attention > you'll > notice your camera feels lighter and lighter as the electrons are > depleted. > > I guess it's a good thing because on a long photo-shoot the camera is > easier > to hold as time goes on. Of course if you have a filter on the lens > that is > collecting the photonic residue, you'll be offsetting that reduced > mass by > some amount. > > Tom C. > > > >From: Jack Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> > >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> > >Subject: Re: Protection glass / filters, especially consumer glass > >Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:24:24 -0700 (PDT) > > > >All right!! That's got to be the answer and explains why some images > >are more prone to this phenomenon than others. I think maybe cat fur > >may be the worst offender. Photo fur balls. > > > >Jack > >--- John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > That looks like the sort of explanation Calvin's dad would > provide > > > :-) > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:01:05PM +0100, Bob W wrote: > > > > It's photon residue, popularly known as 'light lint'. It's > > > scientific > > > > Latin name is 'Floccus lucis'. > > > > > > > > The stuff that the filter stops from going into the lens has to > go > > > > somewhere, and so it gets trapped between the filter and the > front > > > > element. It's the light equivalent of all that fluff that > > > accumulates > > > > in the filter of your clothes dryer and which is so satisfying > to > > > > remove. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Bob > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > > > > Behalf Of Shel Belinkoff > > > > > Sent: 23 April 2007 21:00 > > > > > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > > > > Subject: Re: Protection glass / filters, especially consumer > > > glass > > > > > > > > > > In my case it was more than dust, but something more akin to > > > > > a haze or a > > > > > film. Yeah, there was a little dust in there as well. > > > > > > > > > > Apart from the dust, my theory about the haze is that there > may > > > be > > > > > something in the lens, like lubricants, that emit some gas or > > > > > evaporate > > > > > slightly (we've all experienced the lubricant getting dry at > > > > > one time or > > > > > another), and that the filter over the lens element prevents > the > > > > > evaporation from just dissipating into the atmosphere. > > > > > > > > > > Dust, like rust, never sleeps! > > > > > > > > > > Shel > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Original Message] > > > > > > From: William Robb > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > > From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi" > > > > > > > > > > > > Subject: Re: Protection glass / filters, especially > consumer > > > glass > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Apr 23, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Jack Davis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> BTW, in my world dust cannot > > > > > > > > migrate to the area between the filter > > > > > > >> and the lens unless the filter is removed. :) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > lol ... Do you have them sealed somehow? ;-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I always thought that too, which is why I found the > > > > > consistent build > > > > > > > up of dusty film between the two quite curious. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I could never figure that out either. I had a filter on my > > > > > Nikkor 50/1.4 > > > > > > from the time I bought it. I was pretty good about cleaning > > > > > the front > > > > > > surface, but ignored the inside surfaces. It was quite > > > > > amazing how much > > > > > dust > > > > > > was in there after a year or so. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > > > > PDML@pdml.net > > > > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > > > PDML@pdml.net > > > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > -- > > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > > PDML@pdml.net > > > 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 > >PDML@pdml.net > >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
