Re: 200 or 80 or 40x

On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:52:04 -0400, Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:

been just about the right exposure, judging by the blue sky and
clouds, also reflected in the water. Just wondering, did you use a
CP filter?

If that abbreviation means circular polarizer, then yes I did.

Yes, I thought that you might have used one.


Fortunately(?), I don't have to manually focus much. But when I do,
it's typically night shots where I want the focus set to "infinity",
like trying to get a photo of the moon, or of fireworks.

Granted, the moon I can focus in on as I set up, but moving the camera
back and forth that small amount is a) not an option on a tripod and b)
irrelevant considering the distance involved.

I didn't use a tripod for my 4th of July fireworks shots. I also
didn't use manual focus. Just checking the EXIF data for
confirmation showed that the 18-70mm lens was set with the Focus
Mode set to AF-S. It was pretty dark at about 10:00pm, and the lens
had no problem focusing quickly and accurately as I swung the camera
around to be able to capture nearby bursts (a small percentage
reached my side of the lake) or the rest that were more distant and
scattered randomly all over the sky. The only manual adjusting I
needed to do was change the zoom setting.

I'd have used a tripod and probably manual focusing for the moon,
but the last time I took some moon shots was during this year's
eclipse, more than a month before I got the D50. For that, several
hours after the missing the eclipse (too much cloud cover) I put the
little Fuji on a tripod but didn't use manual focusing, which the
Fuji does only grudgingly. It focused pretty well and produced some
shots that I liked that I wouldn't have gotten had the camera been
focused manually. Depending on my position, some bare tree branches
would occasionally overlay the moon. When it was only a single
branch, the focus was usually on the moon. With more branches, the
branches were in focus, producing a very nice silhouette effect.

.

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