A near miss
Comments(4) Yesterday was one of those days when I really wished I had a faster camera (like 1D mk3).
The reason… one of those near misses that are entirely down to the camera:
Note how only the toes on her hind legs start to come into focus (though the real focusing point is actually still further back). I know the Sigma 70-200/2.8 can handle the speed but the 20D usually lets me down in such situations. Other than faster focusing I also wish 20D had focusing points organised in groups rather than single/all selection given. It would really help with composition in high speed movement shots since as it is, you can only rely on the center point. Others are rarely helpful.
The fact that her left hind leg and a part of the frisbee got cropped irritates me much less than this…
I did get some good ones but nothing I’m be terribly proud of. Take a peek in the gallery.
For the record… that’s an Aerobie Superdisc she’s catching. By far the best frisbee for dogs. It floats extremely well (though it might be slightly too fast for smaller dogs) and it has a soft rubber edge so they don’t injure themselves when they bite down. They start bleeding really fast with other frisbees, believe me. It’s also highly resistant to chewing. We’ve had one for about a year now and it’s still in great shape. Most others get destroyed in a day or two.
We have one Dogobie on standby but it’s too soft, doesn’t have a straight & stable flight and it’s also not that resistant to chewing as they’d like you to believe. Sure, they can’t tear it up completely but it does get punctured relatively fast. But having said that… ours is still flight worthy after a year of rather heavy use. We just preffer the Superdisc. It might be better suited for occasional play.
Where can you get the Superdisc in Slovenia? Like you, I wasn’t impressed with the Dogobie. I have various Hyperflite models–Competition Ctandard, Fastback, Dog Eat Disc, etc.- but the only one that was successful was the Jawz–the others get bite marks very quickly and the edges are abrasive, and gave both my dogs bloody mouths, especially the younger one. Jawz is much kinder. My only criticism is that it’s kind of heavy and doesn’t have lot of loft for long hangtimes.
More dog frisbee reviews here, pictures of us in action here .
Oops, sorry about the double post.
Hey, did we meet? Did you go Komen (without your dog) and we talked about frisbees there? Or was that someone else?
yup, akismet spamfilter is pretty strict when there’s more than one link in a comment, sorry about that. I’ll delete the double posting.
We got the first one in interspar (Vic) toy department and the other in some toy store on the right bank of ljubljanica, between karlovski and sustarski most (so I’m told, I haven’t been there myself). I also remember seeing them in a pet store between Rutar and E.Leclerc stores. Hope this helps. I should point out that it’s not immune to byte “dents” but she can’t byte through it or destroy it completely.
Must have been someone else in Komen but my brother informs me that you met on the walk around Ljubljana. He was manning the checkpoint at Dolgi most.