The 50 has a focal length = 75mm if you were using film (good for faces), and the 28 has a focal length = 42 if you were using film. I think that 43mm is what is considered to be 1:1 with your eye (that is, it is not being magnified nor is it wide angle), so a 28 and a 50 should cover most of your architecture and portrait needs.
Jeffery On Sep 24, 2010, at 10:59 AM, Eric Weir wrote: > > On Sep 24, 2010, at 1:13 AM, Jeffery Smith wrote: > >> What is your chosen genre of photograhy as of this moment? If it is >> buildings or people, a 28 on a digitial with a 1.5x factor is splendid. > > When I bought my K1000 back in 1990 I thought it would be > landscape/wildlifle/nature. I was surprised to find myself interested in > architecture. Not so surprised at people on the street, but it wasn't where I > thought I was headed. At the moment my work brings me into contact with kids > doing sports, e.g., refugee kids playing baseball for the first time in their > lives. And the Olmsted Linear Parks that I mentioned in a recent post are > bugging me. I'd like to learn how to photograph them. > > This weekend I'm headed up to North Georgia for a ForestWatch retreat. Recent > surgery will keep me from getting out in the woods, so I imagine it will be > mostly people there. [Faces interest me, especially interesting faces. [And > who wouldn't be interested in interesting faces??]] But driving back Saturday > evening I might get the opportunity to get in a few landscape shots. Probably > not the best thing to attempt with a 28 or 50 mm lens, but following Stan's > advice, that's what I'll be taking. > > Bottom line? I guess I don't really have a "genre" yet. Any of the above are > starting places. But I'm open. > > Regards, > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > [email protected] > > > > > > -- > 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.
