Eric, Throw the A70-210 lens into your bag and use it if the chance arises. Put the 100mm macro onto the camera tonight and start practicing with the green button. You'll learn plenty and the conscious step of pressing the button to determine speed will be educating. It's really not a problem, don't let it be a barrier to a good lens you need to take along. Now for the other part of your story, an English sister nobody knew about, and Dad was a US airman stationed in the UK. Wow, how does that work out! Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Christine Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Eric, > > I just took a trip this past August to the Canyon/Four corners area. > Our trip was a family vacation, not photo safari, so I wanted to pack > light, too. I brought one lens, a 17-70. Which was fine -- I used > the wide end a good bit of the time -- but there were several times I > wished I'd brought a longer lens. (We saw a mountain lion and a > California condor!) And think about bringing a tripod. We first > entered the park at sunset -- which was SPECTACULAR. I was totally > kicking myself for leaving my lightweight tripod at home... it would > have been great to do some longer exposures at sunset. Oh well. > > I had even thought about getting one of those super-zooms, like > 28-200, but never did. Maybe that's an option if you can really only > bring one? > > Have a great trip... it's an amazing place! > > -c > > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Oct 9, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote: >> >>> You may be surprised what the *sense* of compression from a long lens will >>> do for landscapes like that. There are good, reasonably-priced 100-300 >>> range zooms out there. I have an old Tokina 35-200 that is quite sharp but >>> they sell really cheap, probably because they don't focus close at all. So >>> they're great for distance work, and The Canyon would be a great place to >>> use one. (They often go for <$25 on eBay and have the "A" setting for ease >>> of use.) >> >> Thanks, Colin. As I say, I'm open to suggestions, but you can glean my >> initial thoughts about this from some of my other responses. >> >> I've listed my long lenses in another response. And KEH is right here. I'd >> prefer not to buy a lens for this trip -- in addition to being an amateur >> I'm poor -- but maybe I could pick up something useful in this situation >> cheaply. I'll take a look. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> 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. > -- 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.
