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Shot this E3 on finals last week. The quality isn't superb but the shutter speed was 1/60th on a grey day and I was using manual focus on a subject about 7 miles away...

Great moment

Nice shot!

I was using manual focus on a subject about 7 miles away

Good effort!

1/60th of a second on a lens long enough to pull in an acceptable image like that......?
What lens did you shoot that with...?
I wonder how close the 7 mile guess is, when I know the general rule of thumb is to shoot with a shutterspeed equal to the mm of focal length, in thousanths of a sec......

Nice shot in any event.........

.....not picking, just making an observation, drawn from over 30 yrs of photography......

Cheers guys

What lens did you shoot that with...?

I shot that with a 300mm F4 with a 1.5x Converter attached and a 2x Converter. Having this many converters attached resulted in the loss of autofocus and a very high aperture meaning the shutter speeds were very slow.

I wonder how close the 7 mile guess is, when I know the general rule of thumb is to shoot with a shutterspeed equal to the mm of focal length, in thousanths of a sec......

I've heard that rule before and to be honest I've never really understood it, doesn't appear to be relevant to me personally.

Y'know, you really ought to stop posting these terrible images... appalling quality, really.  ::)

[quote]Y'know, you really ought to stop posting these terrible images... appalling quality, really.