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Postby Slider on Sun Oct 02, 2005 9:04 pm

Was having a play with Oneputts SB800, Beamer and 80-400 VR on my D70s over the weekend.

Not the best shot (wasn't quite quick enough to frame it right) but I think I need to buy some more toys :lol:

Taken just on dusk from around 15 metres.

250mm
1/160s @ f5.6
Heavily cropped as I only just got the bird in the top left hand side of frame :oops:

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Postby mdboo on Sun Oct 02, 2005 9:41 pm

Wow thats a nice shot...

Too bad it wasent taken in the center :?

I like the wings... :wink:
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Postby Alpha_7 on Mon Oct 03, 2005 5:00 pm

Very interesting affect with the blurred wings. (And we always want more toys) :)
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Postby Slider on Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:17 pm

I was wondering if the effect was caused by the VR lens.

Would have been a nice one for the comp if I had nailed the position :oops: Damn things fly too quickly.
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Postby Alpha_7 on Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:29 pm

 BTW what did you mean by beamer ??
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Postby NikonUser on Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:31 pm

I'm assuming a better beamer?

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/revie ... amer.shtml

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Postby Slider on Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:35 pm

Alpha_7 wrote:BTW what did you mean by beamer ??


It is a device that fits over the SB800 or 600 and magnifies the beam. Great for long shots.

The Kookaburra was about 15m away in very poor light at sunset. I took a couple of shots of the tops of trees with the zoom at 400mm and they were very crisp.
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Postby Alpha_7 on Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:35 pm

Thanks for that,
never seen or heard of one before.

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Postby JordanP on Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:03 am

cool shot! and I love the crop - it is very different and interesting. It has more magic about it if you don't tell us why you did it :)

I think the effect on the wings you are noticing isn't to do with VR but just motion blur based on your shutter speed with a frozen image because of the use of flash.

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