Nothing strange about that trick, Igor. It is particularly reasonable when shooting from a safari car that may even be in motion.

Focus: AF.
Zoom: Max tele. You want to zoom in anyway. If the animal comes closer, the car will stop, you will have time to zoom out and recompose. If you get only a glimpse, full tele is how you want to capture it.

Next level up from jeeps are zodiacs. I'll let you stew in your imagination for that one. :-)

Jostein


Den 16.07.2017 21.33, skrev Igor PDML-StR:

I noticed this TV commercial from Marriott rewards:
https://youtu.be/XMEIq3Y8N2A?t=11s
At 11 s, the photographer is shown with his hand holding to a patio frame, with the long zoom holding on top of his forearm.

I can think of an argument that this way of bracing provides him some stability. To me that looked rather weird: he cannot control the focus (and zoom if it is a zoom lens) this way. If you were photographing wild animals, that sounds very unreasonable (unless you have some limited functionality/stability in your left hand, or some other physical limitations).

What do you think?

Igor




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