On Mar 28, 2007, at 9:54 AM, Scott Loveless wrote: > 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.
There was a lot of excellent available light photography done with cameras that had slow lenses when ASA 200 was considered extremely fast film. Anything faster than f/4 was considered a fast lens... ! > ... Hey, they're only a block over from 17th Street Photo. <g> LOL ... Yes, thanks for the correction. Typing error. ;-) To add value: http://www.17photo.com/ They seem good folks. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
