Hey there,
Thanks for all the advice regarding lenses. Several used and more than used lenses are on the way to me as we speak.
I shot up a couple of rolls of film in Harvard Square the day I got the K 1000 in the mail just to see if I could get anything out of it. I'm pretty pleased with the results, but would definitely love to get suggestions. Some of them are on the dark side, but I'm not sure if it's my monitor. I didn't have prints made up. If they are dark, is there an easy or not so easy photoshop trick to lighten them as a batch?
I've spent a lot of time photographing these breakdancers with my digital camera (canon A70). I really liked using the SLR because it was a lot more responsive and I think that I was able to get the exact shot I was looking for more often. The nice thing about the digital though is that I can shoot 120 pictures and not worry about it, so I tend to get lucky a bit more.
Anyway, here's the breakdancers http://public.fotki.com/paulmac/break_dancing_harva/ shot during the day with FUJI 200 I think.
and here are some more street scenes from harvard. http://public.fotki.com/paulmac/harvard_square/ Shot in the evening with FUJI 400 (I think).
Since I have no clue what I was doing, I was generally setting the shutter speed a little less than as fast as I could get it, with the idea that things were moving quickly and I would get clearer shots that way. Is that basically right or not?
And does anyone have suggestions about an image host? I like this FOKTI alright, but it is a little slow and square. Also I had some problems getting the slide show to work.
Thanks a million Paul
