Thanks, Steve. Will bring 16-45 mounted on body w/ 12-24 for inside the museums. Maybe I can squeeze a longer lens in somewhere.
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Desjardins, Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > I went to the American History Museum and the Air and Space Museum last > month. I was using an e-p1 with 14-42 lens, f3.5-5.6, which has a 2x crop > factor. Most of my shots were at 14-18 in both museums, and the longest FL > was 30. Thank heavens for the IS, however. A max aperture of 2.8 would be > much better. A monopod would have been very helpful, but I have no idea how > museum security would feel about that. No restrictions on picture taking, > however, except in those areas where a flash would spoil the effect. No > flash, no problem. Just shot in RAW so you can adjust the white balance > later or fiddle with the white balance as you go with JPG. I would lean a > little toward the 16-45 over the 12-24, although bringing both would be the > way to go. Leave the 50-whatevers for walking around outside. > > Great place for photos, especially Air and Space which is bit brighter than > the AHM. Natural History is similar to American History in terms of lighting. -- 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.
