On 1 Mar 2006 at 21:01, Aaron Reynolds wrote: > Isn't that what they're doing now with these oddball pancake lenses and > such? Trying to sell on design concept rather than numbers?
I think it's more that they are selling small and cute at the moment to my mind and listening to user comments on various forums, Cosina are selling new age retro: http://www.cameraquest.com/Voigt%20SL.htm >> > But still -- I'm working on 600mb files of scenic Italy right now, > generated by a Pentax 67 and Velvia 100F. Whenever I hear any chatter > about digital stuff and bigger files and more resolution, I just think > of what I can already produce here and shrug. Shooting digital is > cheaper in terms of material consumption and quicker in terms of > turnaround, and sometimes I need that. I certainly need it for > baseball. I'm still running 67 (Mamiya 7II) and an LS-8000 so I know where you are coming from but having to deal with film give me the heebie jeebies, it costs a fortune for me to buy film and good processing and I so hate scanning. > But getting even close to 67 is still so very far away at a level that > allows shooting from the hip in the way that you can with a 67. I've recently been shooting pano sequences using my *istD both on and off tripod and even off tripod a pretty sloppy quickly shot sequence of images can be flawlessly strung together to produce quite a large file size. Granted it's not a one frame capture but it's serving me for 2/3 of the types of images that were 67 only territory for me in days gone by. > It'll be a big test for me this weekend, as I'm going to go on a little > roadtrip and NOT bring my 67, just the DS2. We'll see if I regret it. > I do need to be more comfortable with it before April. Don't forget to shoot some sequences if you need a wider AOV or higher res. If shooting hand held just try to approximately pivot around the lens, fix the exposure and provide 30-50% overlap between frames. :-) Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
