On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 06:39:25 -0700, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for that tip, Frank. > > I didn't mean to poke fun at your focusing skills, but it was such a fine > opportunity I couldn't pass it up. I'm sure you'll "get even" at some > point <LOL>. And I'm sure someone'll jump in and suggest ways to manually > focus AF lenses, too. > > But my jab also had a somewhat more serious side, that being the use of OOF > areas in making photographs. While I piggybacked my sarcastic comment onto > your work, I've noticed a decided lack of people shooting at wider > apertures here. Perhaps it's because most people are making nature shots > or macros, but even with the photos of people lots of depth of field is > evident. maybe that's because of DSLR cameras and the smaller digital > sensor dimensions, but it may also be the result of slower zooms that are > so frequently used along with higher speed films or the higher minimum > speeds that are part of the Pentax DSLR concept. Whatever happened to > shooting @ f1.4, or f2.0 or 2.8? Oh, wait, many of the new lenses don't > seem to have those apertures. Those are wonderful apertures for portraits, > and even for "street" fotographie to soften the backgrounds. > > BTW, I like the Erwitt tag line in your sig .... > > Shel
No offense taken, Shel. I knew you were just joking around. Hell, I'm the first one to realize that much of the time, I'm not the sharpest shooter around. <vbg> You'll be happy to know that just this weekend, I bought a roll of Fuji Acros (iso 100), for the express purpose of opening up the little hole in the lens a bit. <vbg> As far as AF lenses go, yes, one can switch it to manual focus, but that's just another bother to be concerned about. So much easier to have MF all the time... <vbg> -- "It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby." -Eliott Erwitt
