A steadier hand than mine, Gunga Din. <g> Well, a lighter kit, anyway. My D3
with 70-200/2.8 and 1.7 teleconverter weighs in slightly more than an old M-1
Garand. Not quite as much recoil, though. And just because it has a bayonet
mount for the lens cap doesn't mean you can put a real bayonet on it. Oh, well,
thanks be for small things. <g>
--Bob
On Sep 2, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 9/2/2011 7:20 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>> Pretty steady hand, or were you using a monopod or some such?
>
> I do have a pretty steady hand, but it wasn't tested too much for these. The
> 60D is a relatively light DSLR and the non
> IS/VC Tammy 28-300 (which is sharper at the long end than at least my copy of
> the VC version) is relatively light. So
> the package is at that sweet spot, solid enough not to be flighty, light
> enough not to fatigue my hands and arms too easily.
>
> A bright summer day, so mostly 1/1000-1/1250 sec., ISO 400, f8. The old
> formula suggests 1/500 for 480mm eq., I doubled
> that, and all was well, even though many are cropped.
>
> The 60D has a setting called Highlight Tone Priority. What it means is that
> everything is really shot one stop lower on
> the ISO scale (ISO 400 shots are really shot at about 200), then a curve
> pulls up midtones and shadows. Quite useful
> where highlights are an issue; it gives at least as much highlight recovery
> possibility as on the 5D. The price is
> slightly more noise in the shadows, which is a non-issue for these subjects.
>
> It is an issue for darker subjects, as the 60D already has slightly more
> noise than the 5D at low to mid ISOs,
> especially in deep shadow. So I'm finally using a custom setting on a camera.
> "C" is f8, auto ISO 100-800 and Highlight
> Tone Priority OFF. Flip to aperture priority and Highlight Tone Priority is
> ON. That way, I don't have to go into menus
> to change it when out in nature where dynamic range and emphasis on
> highlights or shadows can change from shot to shot.
>
> For example, the slug mating shot I posted was shot at ISO 100, Highlight
> Tone Priority OFF on a tripod, and noise is
> very subtle and easily corrected.
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