I also took this picture of a koala on my trip to theat wildlife sanctaury

my friend got ot hold one, and they're very adorable

very soft skin, kangaroos have very soft fur too/ they're lovely to touch

i saw this guy striking a cool pose and thought id snap it

taken at 200mm f5.6. couldn't get any closer, wish i could have though

mate i know just how you feel

its those 'once in a lifetime' shots that and you didn't take the photo

i was flying home and saw the most absolutely beautiful site of Melbourne City from the air. you could see the tall buildings and everything, and the whole city scape was really cool

so i whipped out my camera, even though we were landing at the time, but i didn't care. i tore off the lens cap and it flew to the ground

i leant over 2 strangers and pressed my camera to the glass and pressed the shutter

"battery depleted"


and the plane banked to the right and i lost my shot

bloody hell

wow, thats pretty good shot of the wing

ii've got one too if you dont mind me posting

same happened with my camera. right out of the box, tiny black speck in viewfinder

i just opened it up and medieval on the intereior with a blower

and that got rid of it

you can also do what i did, shake the camera aroudn. not violently, but give it a good shake, that helped me dislodge the black thing


but take it from me, when i was tkaing pictures with it, i was very much preocupoised on exposure, composition, DOF, and didn't even notice it there until a couple of weeks later when i realised, "hey, i didn't even notice the speck there"

i was having doubts that my SR function isnt' doing anything, or that it does'nt work at all

maybe i was just pushing it too far

you didn't explain quite well, i assume the first shot was taken without SR and the second with SR right?

if so then, thats pretty conclusive evidence that it does work, and quite well too i might add

cheers for the replies fellas

I know my K100D Super has shake reduction, but does it do anything at all??

i think it does jack all. i've pretty steady hands and my elbows are pressed right up against my body, even when i lean against a wall photos can still come out shaky

what the hell is the Shake Reduction function even doing? is my camera broken or something?

heres a few samples, the first taken in indoors low light at 50mm, and second outdoor nighttime at 200mm. maybe .5s shutter time nothing too long








how much does the Shake Reduction actually reduce camera shake?

i'm getting a tripod soon, but when going on a trip you just can't bring a tripod along

cheers

hi guys,

i was wondering what aperture setting would be adequate for a highly detailed background as well and a clear focused foreground

would f11 do?

i see alot of potraits with blurred backgrounds, but when on holiday you want the whole scene too

at f11 i find the shutter speed is set a little low and the picture suffers from camera shake

on a cloudy and semi-sunny day, what shutter speed would that equate to?

cheers fellas

actually i saw on the photozone review that the 1.4 is sharper than the 1.7

but the difference in sharpess from differenrt apetures varied a bit with the 1.4 getting better and better up to f2 best at f5.6

but the 1.7 didn't have those variations

i think the 1.4 is better actually

i dunno

seems the pictures taken with the 50mm 1.4 are so much better

i dont know, tack sharp is always good in my opinion

but i dont know how a lens can hide the skin imperfections of a subject

but i can fathom that it can make an image "softer"

i suppose ill understnad when i get one

and isn't 50mm a bit to small?

i like doing my mug-shots like the one above

should i go for teh 70mm or the 77 instead

ineven though thy're twice and three itmes as much