Well, I've actually gotten a couple of rolls back, but this is the first one that I thought worth blowing up:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1956319
Scanned from 8x10. When he saw my camera, this fellow asked if I wanted to take a photo of his pennies. I said "sure". He didn't know that with the wide lens, I was getting him in there, too.
We talked for several minutes, I threw him some coins (keeping in mind that unlike Americans, we do have $1 and $2 coins! <g>), and I was off. He seemed to be such a gentle man, I wondered how he came to be in the situation that he was in. Next time I'm in that part of town, I'd like to give him a print of his "art".
This was the first time I've used the 19mm Vivitar for street photography, and it is very different, but fun! You really have to get in their faces with this one. Unfortunately, this lens, while fairly linear, does get soft around the edges - I don't remember the aperture, but it was likely around f8 or f11.
Lemme know what you think, if you're so inclined.
thanks, frank
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
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