Shooting on the ocean

Brendan Pyatt · March 2nd, 2008, 01:36 PM

haha its funny how one assumes things!!

I thought you were shooting off a ski and I was SO surprised when you said you were using a kata rain cover. I have shot off the back off a jetski and I thought you were totally crazy but also very talented to be able to do this!!

Also I am a trained stills shooter with most of my work doing water sports and I have relied heavily on autofocus over the years. I am finding it hard going to adjust to the manual focus that video requires:

long lenses + manual focus + moving subject = hard

Randy Strome · March 2nd, 2008, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Brendan Pyatt

haha its funny how one assumes things!!
long lenses + manual focus + moving subject = hard

Especially true because defraction seems to set in pretty early with this lens in bright sunlight. So modify the equation to long lenses + manual focus + moving subject + wide Iris = hard

Dean Sensui · March 3rd, 2008, 01:00 AM

If this job were easy there would be cavemen doing it.

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March 2nd, 2008, 01:36 PM	#31
Brendan Pyatt Regular Crew Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Southampton UK Posts: 165	haha its funny how one assumes things!! I thought you were shooting off a ski and I was SO surprised when you said you were using a kata rain cover. I have shot off the back off a jetski and I thought you were totally crazy but also very talented to be able to do this!! Also I am a trained stills shooter with most of my work doing water sports and I have relied heavily on autofocus over the years. I am finding it hard going to adjust to the manual focus that video requires: long lenses + manual focus + moving subject = hard