Gary wrote:
>
> Stunned, I looked down at the camera's top deck: MANUAL,
> one-fifteenth of a
> second!? How could it be? The shot of a lifetime and I just made it
> hand-holding 560 mm at one-fifteenth of a second? It was
> supposed to be on
> AUTO! An adult bobcat (Lynx rufus), in its springtime prime,
> in good light,
> looking straight at me, at 20 paces and I blew it? Please,
> put me out of my
> misery - who-knows-how-many stops over-exposed, five stops
> too slow to hand
> hold!
>
> For the sad result, see:
>
http://members.home.com/garyetx/bobcat.htm
Well at least you're courageous enough to admit it, I think I would have
binned the slide and tried to forget the whole incident !
Wayne Harridge
Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia
http://www.geocities.com/wayneharridge/
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