On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > My friend Beau and I are the photographers for an Aikido workshop this > weekend in Santa Cruz. I'm definitely stretching some of my skills shooting > in another new environment. Not trusting my timing or focus, I'm shooting a > metric buttload (2.2 US buttloads) of photos. I've been too busy to really > look at anything I've taken since Wednesday. > > One of the things that I've been doing is setting the K20 up in the high, > back corner of the Santa Cruz Civic, on the interval timer, getting a shot > every minute, or minute and a half. It shows the room filling up as people > come in for class, and the dynamics of the room as people listen to the > instructor, or practice technique. It is, however, quite frustrating that I > can only shoot 99 frames on the interval timer. To do a stop action movie, > I'd much rather shoot them every 10 seconds or so, but if I want it to last a > two hour class, I have to pull the time back to 90 seconds. Likewise, for an > hour class, I shoot once a minute to get some of the things going on before > and after class.
Try an eBay interval remote. They're cheap, easy to find (K20D takes the same remote as a Canon Rebel) and shouldn't have the 99 shot limitation. > > I've also found that manually focusing my sigma 20/1.8 at those distances can > be subtle and tricky. > > One thing that I've noticed is that Beau's D700 is hella loud. It makes the > K-x seem whisper quiet in comparison. I've yet to see a quiet FF DSLR. A pity since there were some _really_ quiet AF film SLR's (the Canon Elan 7's are ridiculously quiet) > > I have also been wishing that my 16-50 were 24-75 and just as fast. > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est > Tamron makes a great 28-75/2.8 that's reasonably cheap. Sigma makes 2 24-70's, one's cheap and the other is good. -Adam -- 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.
