Who are you and what did you do with Frank? If he is gone, how am I going to get my fix on subway and street-scenes?
But whoever you are, nicely shot, nicely cropped! stan On Jul 5, 2010, at 7:28 PM, frank theriault wrote: > Yet another flying swan pic, this one from yesterday. I was getting > tired of carting around long zooms; they're so big and heavy and > fiddly. So my kit was the *istD, the Pentax M 200mm f4.0 and the > Tamron SP 90mm f2.5 Macro. Both nice light, easy to carry lenses. > > I'm quite impressed with the M 200mm. It's noticeably sharper than > either zoom I use. This photo is about a 25% crop (is that right? I > mean to say I cropped out about 75% of the original frame). Given > that amount cropped, plus I was shooting manual focus and panning, I'm > pretty happy with how sharp this is: > > http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/synchronized.html > > I'm happier with this than the flying swan pic from the other day > taken with the heavy Tokina 80-200mm f2.8 zoom: > > http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/swans-on-wing.html > > Anyway, hope you like. Comment if you will. > > cheers, > frank > > > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > 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. -- 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.