I think that in order to really take full advantage of your lenses and to permit their all but instantaneous use, you should have each mounted on its own K20D. Appears you, also, need an assistant standing by to shove each set up in your hands as called for. My suggestion that we may think we "need" more lenses than we actually do, was with a forcefully tucked tongue in cheek. ;=)
Jack --- On Fri, 12/26/08, Doug Franklin <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Doug Franklin <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: DA*60-250 f/4 > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, December 26, 2008, 11:49 AM > Jack Davis wrote: > > > Do you suppose we really don't NEED all the lenses > we think we do? NAHHHH! > > Depends on what you're shooting. I shoot mostly auto > racing. Even when you have credentials to get onto the > "hot side" of the fences, you still have some > geometries and distances you can't affect. For example, > there's one particular corner at Road Atlanta where > I'll use all of the following focal lengths: 400, 300, > 200, 100, 50. Each gets different aspects of things. The > 400 lets me isolate a driver in a car in one part of the > corner, and just the car's "cab" in a > different part of the corner. The 300 works for most or all > of one car depending on where it is in the corner. The 200 > works for 1.5 to two cars in most of the corner, and three > to four in another part of the corner. The 100 lets me get > "packs" of cars (or parts of packs) as they > navigate the corner in a clump. The 50 lets me show the > cars and the crowd or a bit of the terrain. Each has its > role. However, obviously, motorsports shooting is pretty > specialized and much more constrained than a lot of genres > of photography. > > > > -- Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
