Mike,
I think 8781 is a great shot. Sorry about the AF problem. Hope you can get
it straightened out promptly.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Mike Lazzari" <watershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "1" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 11:37 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] (OT) High Noon
>I took these two at very nearly high noon sun time today.
>
> <http://www.interisland.net/watershed/mike/WalkDogs/May09/fox8812.jpg>
> 1/125sec -2.0ev
> <http://www.interisland.net/watershed/mike/WalkDogs/May09/fox8781.jpg>
> 1/60sec -1.5ev
>
> High thin overcast and high angle sun made for some pretty even light.
> Made for digital.
> Tam 300mm 2.8. Added the 1.4xa for the second one. ISO100 aperture
> unknown
>
> I'm finding I have to tweak the ev all over the place when using these
> old manual focus lenses. Change the aperture, change the ev. Different
> background, different ev. Nothing linear about it. Just watch for blown
> highlights after the fact. Missed a lot of shots that way. Also kinda
> hard to focus on a moving target, stop down and shoot.A lot of oof shots
> went in the recycle.
>
> I also had my brand new 70~300 crap out on me. I could really use an AF
> lens for these subjects. The AF has gone bonkers. It just racks in and
> out and jumps around. Even when set to MF so the lens is totally
> useless. Newest firmware and it worked for about a week. I got it from
> Henry's which is a pretty good outfit . Just hope I can replace it and
> not have to send it to Olympus. We're leaving for OR in 4 weeks.
>
> Mike
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