I stand by what I said, the *****FURTHER****** you get away from normal, the less often you need it. Sure, ultrawides and ultrateles have their uses on occasion, but not nearly as often as moderate wides and teles. I didn't mean to imply the normal lens is the best or most useful, its just the further and further you get away from normal, the less often its going be what you need. My post was made in the context of a 600mm lens on digital, while maybe useful for birds, its just going to be too long for nearly everything else. That's a very specialty focal length.
-- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) Home Page - www.jchriso.com Join the Audio CD PLAYER DISCUSSION list - http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Graydon Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 5:57 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: My current prime lens A-Team On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 05:45:08PM -0400, J.C. O'Connell scripsit: > -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Graydon On Sat, Jul 25, > 2009 at 03:33:07PM -0400, J.C. O'Connell scripsit: >> > On Pentax digital, you are most likely going to get a lot more use >> > out of a 135,200, or 300, than the 400. 400mm is just very very >> > long on digital and will rarely be needed. > > > Unless you do birds, in which case 400mm is awfully short. > > well, there are exceptions to every rule I guess, but in general the > further you get away from 50mm ( 33mm on digital ), the less often you > are going to need it. That's why they call normal normal. Normal is normal for taking pictures where you want it to look roughly like what someone would see if they were standing where the camera was when it took that picture. While this is a whole lot of how people take pictures, and even more of where the emotional responses are, it's not *all* of how people take pictures. I find I use "normal" lengths less often than longer -- the FA100 gets as much use as everything shorter combined -- and while this is doubtless a side effect of not being all that interested in taking pictures of people, I don't think it's an indication of doing something wrong. -- Graydon -- 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.
