From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 30 Oct 2004 at 16:27, Sam Jost wrote:
Oh, and my first impression of the DA-14: the widest lens I ever owned, I
need to get used to the field of view to really take advantage of it. And I need
to practise metering the light according to what I want to be properly exposed -
the lens is so wide automatic metering seems underexposing too much for my
taste.
Tsk, tsk, that ain't wide, why when I was a boy we had "real" wide lenses and
film and .....
Yeah, my parents kept telling me that in the 'good ol times' if you wanted to make pictures you'd need to buy some kind of license thingy called 'film' that allowed you to make a few fotographs that you only got when you paid the shop where you bought this license even more money to actually been allowed to print - I never understood why they didn't just make pictures without them and they kept telling me about needing these filmthingies - must been some kind of hardware dongle.
Ah well, hard to imagine how that worked and why people didn't revolt against it earlier. But maybe my parents are making it up, they always tell unbelievable stuff about what the past was like.
Seriously you should have a lot of fun with it especially if it's the first
really wide lens you've owned. It's AOV (angle of view) on the *ist D puts it
into the category generally referred to as ultra or super wide, these lenses
can take some getting used to. Just a few hints; make use of the extraordinary
DOF provided by the lens, you can easily include pretty close foreground
elements into your compositions to help balance what could otherwise be a
fairly flat distant looking scape. Get down and funky and use the perspective
distortion when close up to subjects. Don't be scared to experiment, I recently
made a series of successful ultra-close up images by putting a short tube
behind one of my favourite ultra-wide lenses. Most of all enjoy, it should be
great fun tool.
Yep, it is fun, and totally different to normal lenses. The DOF already caught my by surprise, now you mention it I remember the wider the lens the deeper the DOF, but as I looked at my test shots I always wondered why the background was so sharp.
From the roughly 150 pictures I made with the da14 so far most are boring,but it offers some nice views a normal lens just don't, like including a lot of background into a closeup.
I sure will have fun with this one!
Sam
