On Dec 4, 2010, at 10:12 AM, John Sessoms wrote: > From: "Peter Loveday" > >>>> Ken Waller and his 600mm is always gonna beat you and your 300mm w/TC. >>> > Thanks for the confidence Bob, but equipment will only take you so far... >>> > ;+} >> Indeed. It's not about the equipment. A *great* photographer can make a >> 10mm fisheye look like a 600mm tele :) >> > > But, when would he do that? > > One of the characteristic skills that make a photographer *great* is knowing > & using the most suitable lens for the situation. Or conversely, creating > photos that make the best use of the available lens. > > I make no claim to greatness, although I have aspirations, but if I'm using a > 10mm fish-eye, I don't want photos that look like they were taken with a > 600mm tele.
It was obviously a joke. We're all with you on this. Loosen the cincture:-). Paul > > The long tele-photo prime without tele-converter is always going to trump the > medium tele-photo prime with tele-converter. And both of them will give > sharper images without the TC than a long zoom with the TC will. > > All other things being equal, my 300mm with a 2x tele-converter will not give > me as sharp an image as I could get with the 600mm. Without the > tele-converter my 300 is just as sharp as the 600, but doesn't get in as > close. > > And the 600 with a tele-converter would suffer just as much loss of sharpness > as the 300 does. But it would still get in a hell of a lot closer. > > I have the 300. I don't have the 600. > > To me, the path to greatness is to make the best images I can make with the > 300 I have and not worry about what the 600 can do for me until the day ever > comes that I can afford to buy one & hire the necessary Sherpa to carry it > around for me. > > The same applies to making photographs using a tele-converter. You make the > best image you can given the characteristic limits imposed by the equipment. > And accept that sometimes the limits imposed by the equipment are going to > keep you from getting the image you really want. > > I apologize for the rant. I *did* see the smiley. > > Don't even know why. > > While I've been in school, I've hardly had occasion to use the 300 other than > for baseball last summer, and for that the 300 was almost too long ... got > more utility from my 80-200. > > Most everything I've done in school this year has been at 70mm or shorter. > > -- > 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.
