Hey Dave
‘Twas nice to be missed! Not too sure if I am being watched over, or “watched over” a la George Orwell!
Managed to grab a few piccies but didn’t take the tripod so most long shots suffered from a combination of hand shake, mirror slap vibes and poor lens performance at the wide open end of the Pentax kit lenses.
Not to mention operator errors! It was very tricky shooting in Underwater World – dark, through scratched glass and heaps of reflections to contend with. The Giant Squid measure 7 metres from tip of tentacles to end of body – yikes!
It was frozen in a slowly thawing 3 ton block of ice after being caught in NZ.
My experience has got me thinking more seriously about investing in better quality glass, maybe with the IS or VR of the Canon & Nikon lenses respectively. I saw one guy with a K10D and his LCD put my piddly *ist DS 1.8” to shame…
Cheers
Dennis