Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Reflexes of a cheetah! Sweet shot, Mark... On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/070327_193021.jpg.html > or > http://tinyurl.com/cbqlc4k > > Last week I was talking on the LUG about how now with digital we can > capture > action in the dark. I was called out on it. I think my example I wrote > about > was a guy running down the sidewalk in the dark. > Well here's a guy going a million miles an hour by me on speed skates. > It all happened in the blink of an eye. And I got the shot. > And this was not full frame it was taken with a 1.5 crop D200. > With a manual focals 45mm 2.8 P lens from Cosina for Nikon. It says Nikon > on > it. P stands for Pancake. > 1/50 sec at f3.5 and be there at iso 800. > And is due to the wonders of panning. Its the background which is blurring > not the guy. I'm always amazed that's so easy to do. Even in the dark > When I checked the monitor after taking the shot I was not even sure he'd > be > anywhere in the frame. As I missed a few that way. > > -- > Mark Rabiner > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Bob Adler Redwood City, CA http://www.rgaphoto.com