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Postby Big Red on Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:26 pm

was out pitchatakin with the Sigma 8mm f4 fisheye when i spied a little cove which the waves were rolling into ...
I walked up to the "wet line" and looked down to set the lens ... when i looked up again .... not much i could do but press the shutter button

now i must say that this lens focusses very close so that everything from infinity to 50 mm is in focus !!

i was drenched, the camera got drenched and the camera bag got drenched

i quickly checked the pic and wiped off the water and all seems ok.
i guess it went something like this ...
:D 8) :shock: :roll: :(

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Postby xerubus on Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:29 pm

cracker of a shot.. just a tad more contrast :)

did all the gear survive okay? .. and... how do you find that lens?

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Postby LostDingo on Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:31 pm

hahahah....I have had that happen....you do have to be very midful of the occasional rogue waves.

I do encourage anyone wanting to take seascapes to always keep one eye on the waves

I don't think I have seen the 8mm Siggy...are you pretty pleased with it :?:
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Postby Big Red on Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:51 pm

its not a very sharp lens and vignettes hugely even on a digital but it can take some fun pics and thats what i usually try and take with it.

The other pics i took with it just look too far away even though they were only a few meters away.

heres one straight from the camera and just resized.
the water was about 2 metres away.
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Postby LostDingo on Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:53 pm

Big Red wrote:its not a very sharp lens and vignettes hugely even on a digital but it can take some fun pics and thats what i usually try and take with it.

The other pics i took with it just look too far away even though they were only a few meters away.

heres one straight from the camera and just resized.
the water was about 2 metres away.
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Interesting...thanks for giving some honest opinion on the lens....it does sound fun to have a play with
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Postby BT*ist on Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:54 pm

What a shot!! Hard to deliberately take, I would say. Still, notwithstanding the abject horror you must have felt at your equipment being drenched, afterwards you have a very striking photo- and one that will be forever linked with the emotion you were feeling just as you took it. I hope all the gear is okay and you can laugh at it now?
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Postby gstark on Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:00 pm

LostDingo wrote:I don't think I have seen the 8mm Siggy...are you pretty pleased with it :?:


Paul,

Actually, that's a soggy.
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Postby christiand on Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:00 pm

Hooo Hooo, you've got courage :D

you took the shot :D :lol:

How did you clean the gear ?

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Postby Finch on Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:50 pm

Shane,

Gotta love those 'action' shots, eh? Nicely taken and I'm glad the gear seems alright.

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Postby Slider on Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:58 pm

Top Shot. Possibly a very expensive one though but at least you would have washed off a lot of the dust :lol:
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Postby BBJ on Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:04 pm

Shane, what can i say that this shit is potw material. Well although it is not the best ways to wash your gear but i love the shot with the water heading for camera is just great.
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Postby blacknstormy on Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:04 pm

Shane !!!
Fantastic shot - and of course, even though you will protest to the contrary, was a deliberate and well thought out set up ;) LOL
Glad to hear both you and your gear are ok .....
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Postby Big Red on Wed Jun 21, 2006 12:18 am

there's nothing like looking up and seeing that wave only a split second away from hitting you and knowing that i had no time to even turn or duck ... :cry:

then the photographer section of the brain clicks in and you know you don't have time to lift the camera to your eye so you hold the camera where it is, point it towards the incoming wave, hold it as steady as you can and fire while wondering if the f stop and speed you have it set at to take a long exposure of the gentle rolling swell coming in will work for this shot :lol:
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Postby Oneputt on Wed Jun 21, 2006 6:26 am

Thats a corker Shane :D I would not have told anyone that it was almost by accident :wink:
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Postby DionM on Wed Jun 21, 2006 6:27 am

Great shot but I cringed knowing what happened next :shock:

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Postby LostDingo on Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:16 am

gstark wrote:
LostDingo wrote:I don't think I have seen the 8mm Siggy...are you pretty pleased with it :?:


Paul,

Actually, that's a soggy.


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