Really good results considering the conditions, Dave! On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:28 PM, David Mann <dmann...@gmail.com> wrote: > We were visited by a grey warbler yesterday, a bird we occasionally hear in > our area but don't often see (they have a very nice song). They're > constantly on the move so very difficult to photograph. Usually I just stand > and watch them but this time I thought I'd get the camera and take my > chances. I think this is the best photo I've managed to get of one so far. > > http://www.multi.net.nz/grey-warbler-2/ > > K10D, FA*400mm f/5.6, 1/500th handheld at f/5.6, ISO 400. It's cropped to > about 50% of the original area. > > The AF on the K10D really doesn't seem to work well with long glass, it kept > annoying me by always starting to focus closer when it needed to go further > away. To make it worse, this lens focuses to 2 metres and doesn't have a > limiter. Probably doesn't help that I was shooting under a canopy so the AF > didn't have much in the way of contrast. > > Cheers, > Dave > > > -- > 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.
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