Accidental shots of birds that flew past my lens

Clown · 26th February 2004

nickpower · 26th February 2004

wao.. wat lens u use... i used a 70-300mm Sigma. At full 300mm i can onli catch a small plane.....

jimtong · 26th February 2004

Do you use manual focus to infinite?

teowws · 26th February 2004

thats a 50-500 sigma lens if i'm not wrong.

teowws · 26th February 2004

Originally Posted by Clown

Hi Clown, whats your camera mode and shutter speed used to capture this pics?

Clown · 26th February 2004

i use f16 and f11 aperture modes to get the shots.
my keep ratio for this event was 30%.. sheesh.

cWc · 26th February 2004

i would prefer a slower shutter, the airliner looks like a 3d model without any motion blur

Ansel · 26th February 2004

Originally Posted by cWc

i would prefer a slower shutter, the airliner looks like a 3d model without any motion blur

But this kind of situation, the top priority is to get the shot. Slow shutter is too risky, you may end up with blurr shots of a situation that is not repeatable.

Nice sky! Hope tomorrow will be like this too.

dnka · 26th February 2004

Originally Posted by nickpower

wao.. wat lens u use... i used a 70-300mm Sigma. At full 300mm i can onli catch a small plane.....

yeah lor... me oso using the sigma 70-300, could not register as much details and sharpness.

HelmetBox · 26th February 2004

clown using a s2pro?

what a clean ccd!

Twilo · 26th February 2004

The sky colours are very distinctively S2.

lauLEE · 26th February 2004

i didn't know a "clown" can shoot such superb, sharp accidental birds.
really si beh ho images. plse post more.

teowws · 26th February 2004

Originally Posted by Clown

i use f16 and f11 aperture modes to get the shots.
my keep ratio for this event was 30%.. sheesh.

Har...serious! I'm aslo thinking of using my 50-500mm, what do u think, should i or should i not used the 50-500mm , i only have an 80-200mm lens which may not make it even after 1.5X of my DSLR.

KNIGHT ONG · 26th February 2004

Cannot tahan all the birds here liao ...

This Sunday going to shoot shoot shoot ..... seem likes bring my travel lens 24-200mm will be good enough to cover most areas in the exhibition halls.

My friends say got 4 tickets for me ...... shiok xia ...

Clown · 26th February 2004

thanks for the comments guys. =)

if got 50 500mm bring lah. normal lenses need to crop a lot more.

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