Let yourself go, Frank. You may come out the other side in a lower price range demension. 8) They are tiny, fidgety, brightly feathered, difficult targets. In open sun light, their feathers absolutely glow and their small size doesn't always influence even a spot meter. Detail in such fine feathers is elusive. Only way I've gotten decent shots of them (with my max 300mm) has been by using "trap focus."
Jack --- On Thu, 8/12/10, frank theriault <knarftheria...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: frank theriault <knarftheria...@gmail.com> > Subject: PESO - American Goldfinch > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <PDML@pdml.net> > Date: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 4:12 AM > I'm rather obsessed with these little > guys, but they're rather hard to > get. Small, quick, they let me get ~almost~ close > enough to shoot > with 200mm, then take off. In several months, this is > about the best > I've gotten: > > http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/american-goldfinch.html > > I need longer glass, because this just isn't sharp enough > (heavily > cropped). I never thought I'd hear myself say it, but > I need more > mm's. 300, 600, whatever. First I need more > money. To get that I > need a better job. > > I'm getting sucked into the vortex, the black hole. > > AAAAaaaarrrggghhh! > > Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. > > 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.
