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Rob Ernsting
{K:8949} 5/5/2005
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Very good, an SLR and a nice lens. You will see that you go back to wide angle and panorama very soon. I Use my 70-200mm occasionally. Like in the last photo. Regards, Rob.
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Roger Williams
{K:84106} 5/5/2005
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Rob, my first love, and what really brought me back into the hobby, was the wide-angle lens and the stitched panorama. It all started there. But I am finding it is nice to expand my interests (1st a toy "phone" camera, now a tele lens). Tele lenses will never replace my first love, but they CAN be fun. 135mm feels like a loooong tele to me, by the way. I used to say 50mm was my "tele" lens! This Russian lens (US$35!) is quite good, isn't it!
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Chris Spracklen
{K:32552} 5/5/2005
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Super shot, Roger ~ a real eye stretcher!
Best regards, Chris
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Mary Brown
{K:69853} 5/5/2005
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These are wonderful 'real life; shots.
Mary
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andree lerat
{K:17140} 5/7/2005
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Nice, simple, effective capture. The image tells the story in such a wonderful way.
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The Armed Eye
{K:3563} 5/8/2005
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How nice this one is ! The lens looks fine, works well together with the Superia 800.
The RF purists will burn you at the stake for shooting SLR again, you renegate !! :-)
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Linda Bique
{K:73220} 5/8/2005
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I really like this Roger, It's bright and colorful, and tells the whole story. The rich green tree in the background is wonderful because it blocks out everything else and draws the eye to the interesting interaction taking place between the main characters. I like the way you contrasted these opposing activities as well. Each is using his hands in relation to the noise, one to create it and one to subdue it. Neither seems to care about the other, but are concentrating on their own objectives, and yet there is cohesiveness between them because they are sharing that one moment in time...they are a part of it, and apart from it. Separate and yet together....Wonderful image, interesting presentation....all the best, Linda
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Roger Williams
{K:84106} 5/8/2005
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Bertram, my defence is that (a) it's a completely manual SLR, with STOP-DOWN metering. And (b) I use it for telephoto, fisheye and macro work mostly... Not really much competition with RFs, which are still my first love!
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Roger Williams
{K:84106} 5/8/2005
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Thank you, Linda. There is one other contrast between the two figures. The man is stripped to the waist (something you very rarely see away from the beach in Japan) and the little girl is all dressed up with a hat that obscures most of her face. So many things came together for this shot!
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Linda Bique
{K:73220} 5/8/2005
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Wow Yes, another perspective. Thanks for pointing that out Roger...:) I need to get a wide angle lens, can you give me any advice on that....I have a Nikon D100....Thanks Roger, Linda
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Roger Williams
{K:84106} 5/8/2005
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Linda, I know very little about digital cameras, but on the assumption that the D100 can use lenses designed for the smaller sensors (the ones that effectively multiply the focal length by 1.5), the best wide-angle lens I know is the Nikon 10.5. It is a full-frame fisheye, and gives images like those in my "fisheye" folder taken with the 16mm Zenitar. Note that the curvilinear rendering of straight lines near the edges of the images, which can get a bit tiresome, can be eliminated by the software purchasable from Nikon with the lens. In this case the lens becomes the equivalent of about a 20mm rectilinear WA. I'm afraid the learning curve will be quite steep with such a very wide-angle lens, but I cannot think of a better option if you are serious about exploring this distinctive end of the FL "spectrum." It is the first lens I would buy if I went digital!
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Linda Bique
{K:73220} 5/9/2005
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Roger thank you so much for your very detailed answer. I'll check into that...We have some beautiful trees here and I'd like to photograph them...I'll keep you posted. Thanks. :) Linda
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