Cotty wrote:
Yo David, welcome aboard.
Cotty in the UK here. Only been here for a relatively short time myself.
Photography since art college in 1979. Sold lots of Pentax man focus
gear 3 years ago and bought into EOS digi with a D60 and some glass, and
then 1DmII a year ago. It's not the most active list on the planet but
there's a few about who seem fairly knowledgeable and will chip in with help.
Best,
Cheers,
Cotty
G'mornin' Cotty!
Nice website, you have! You've got some fine portraits, and I rather
like your photo essays.
I like your nature shots, too. I also like photograph animals, but only
in the wild.
My latest (shot Thursday) with a (manual focus) 400mm Leitz Telyt w/2x
converter on a Canon 20D are at
http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/Waxwing_2.htm and
http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/Waxwing_3.htm
I'm surprised when you say this is not an active list. I would have
thought Canon was pretty popular! ;-)
In my other life, I am co-owner of the Leica Reflex list. With just
under 200 members we manage from 8 to 10 posts a day. (A lot of guys
there using Leica glass on assorted Canon Digital bodies and one on a
Canon film body!) It's a congenial list that offers a lot of help to
those who need it. We also post our photos somewhere on the net, post
the URL on the list and ask for comments and criticism (always given in
the best way). In this way, a lot of us have managed to improve our
photography immensely. Do the members here not do that sort of thing?
Also, a quick question. Are 'for sale' or 'wanted to buy' ads allowed
here? Restricted to any one day? Verboten? On the LRflex list we
allow them, on
Fridays, from members, but not commercial dealers. What is the rule here?
Lastly, has anybody here had good success with the 17~85mm IS zoom made
for the 20D and 300/350D (EF-S mount)?
I was extremely disappointed with it... it suffers from a HUGE tendency
to flare... lens hood use is a must and it's still bad. And it suffers
an inordinate amount of barrel distortion at the wide end. (This can be
cured, to some extent, with PTLENS during post-processing, but....) Are
all examples of this lens that bad? Or did I get a dud?
Certainly, it does not inspire me to purchase more Canon glass! :-(
Anyway... enough muckraking for now! Time to go and shovel the snow!
Cheers!
--
David Young,
Logan Lake, BC
CANADA.
Personal Web-site at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt
Leica Reflex Forum web-page: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm
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