Zoo Photography help with tips

[Don Hoey]

Originally Posted by yelvertoft

The guide Don is referring to is just that, a guide. Some people are better at hand-holding than others. Mrs Y has been known to get acceptably sharp shots with a 200mm lens at 1/15th on an APS-C sensor camera without any anti-shake features. I'm not so fortunate.

Somewhere there is an Andy Bright shot that is super sharp yet taken at a ridiculously slow shutter speed. I remember Foxy commenting on it.

I found when I moved from a 6mp sensor to 12mp I had to add another stop to my safety level, so resorted to using at least monopod when a tripod is not necessary.

If in doubt doing a few tests to establish your own is easy enough.

Don

[Don Hoey]

Somewhere there is probably a thread that refers to program mode and how it selects aperture and shutter speed. I have just found this graphic I drew up in 2007 that may be of interest in this thread.

Don

[Don Hoey]

Originally Posted by Don Hoey

Somewhere there is an Andy Bright shot that is super sharp yet taken at a ridiculously slow shutter speed. I remember Foxy commenting on it.

Don

I knew I would find it sooner or later .
Post #33 in this link
http://www.worldphotographyforum.com...?t=1065&page=4

Don

[newbieman]

Many thanks to everyone that's replied soem great information will be trying some new idea's next time I'm out but please keep the info coming