-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Can't believe all the hooey about it "not being fast enough for > general use" ... IMO, f/2.8 is just fine even for a lot of low light > shooting, particularly with good, clean ISO 800 available. I remember > doing available light street photography with ASA400 film and a Elmar > 35mm f/3.5 on a Leica IIc body ... no slow shutter speeds or flash > available. Get real.
Agreed. For almost a year, about the time the *istD was introduced, I shot exclusively with an M28/3.5 and Tri-X, indoors or out, and did not use a flash. News photographers have gotten along quite nicely with f2.8 zooms for quite some time. This whole argument reminds me of a photograph by St. Ansel. It's a portrait of a smiling Steiglitz taken with a Contax II and a Tessar lens at 1/10, hand-held, indoors with available light. There's no mention of the film used, but the photo is c.1940, so it couldn't have been terribly fast. The Tessar is an f3.5 lens. You can see the photo in the "Small-Format Cameras" section of "The Camera". With a DSLR it's even easier, since you can adjust sensitivity on the fly. > BTW: I've often found gear available through Amazon.com at the 18th > Street Photo retailer that wasn't available elsewhere. They seem good > folks ... One time, when the only example of a lens they had in stock > had a crushed box, they called to apologize and ask if it was all > right. I decided not to take it, waited for the next one, and the > compensated by giving me an additional discount on another item I was > looking at. Hey, they're only a block over from 17th Street Photo. <g> -- Scott Loveless www.twosixteen.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
