Pirate Palooza!

... And of course there is a very intoxicated Jack Sparrow, fresh off an attempt at trying to "Drink around the World" in Epcot.



~Joanie
 
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"Tim" said:
Very nice. ; What lens?
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That was with the rented Nikon 70-200mm. The thing that really surprised me about that lens was how fast it was able to focus on the dark rides. That big hunk of lens really did a great job under the challenging conditions of the dark rides. The Nikon D4 has a really great focusing system but sometimes in certain spots on a dark ride it's just too dark to find suitable focus targets.

I wear bifocals so my days of manually focusing and hoping I'm focused in the right zone on a dark ride are long gone. Even if I had a focusing screen installed in the camera I doubt with today's DSLRs you could manually focus successfully under those challenging conditions. Those rides move at a deceptively fast clip so there is just no time to focus manually. I also think that the depth of field is a lot thinner with these modern lenses so the camera really is the best at deciding the focus.

With all that under consideration I never would have thought the 70-200 would come close to matching the dark ride focusing performance of my 24-70 lens. I was very pleasantly surprised!

~Joanie
 
Oh, Joanie....you have to remove the Width and Height tags in the photo links. One of the little quarks in the migration process to these boards.
 
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