On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:06 -0500, "John Sessoms" <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > A minor nit ... rotor-craft & prop driven aircraft need a slower shutter > speed so you don't completely stop the motion of the rotor/propeller. > Gives a more pleasing rendition. Most of them need just slightly more > blur to the rotors, especially the third one. > > Learned that the hard way (and hopefully will remember in the heat of > the moment the next time I need it). > > That said, it's a good set. I love the old CH-54. It's good to see > they're still of use to someone.
Thanks, John. My main concern with this set was using a speed that wasn't too slow for hand holding with the DA 55-300 lens. Looking through the full set, the slowest speed I used was 1/125. That gave a reasonably good blur to the rotors at the expense to a little loss of sharpness on the copter itself. I was probably close enough to the action to have used a shorter focal length - maybe next time. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > From: "Brian Walters" > > G'day all > > > > We have a serious bushfire burning a few km to the east of us. It's > > downwind of us so that's good - but not good for those in that > > direction. > > > > As I write another Erikson Air Crane has just flown over the house - we > > have a small lake a couple of hundred metres away and the choppers have > > been using it to fill their water tanks for most of the day. > > > > Of course I took a few photos..... > > > > :-) > > > > > > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/album-firefighting/index.html -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
