Larry, those are great. I especially like nos. 88 and 94. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW
----- Original Message ----- From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, January 1, 2012 8:04 AM Subject: Re: The problem with modern camera design On Jan 1, 2012, at 1:07 AM, John Celio wrote: > Earlier tonight I was having some fun photographing holiday lights when I > realized something: now that pretty much all cameras have a much smaller left > shoulder than film cameras of old, the lens is no longer in the center of the > body. This means that if you rotate your camera as if you were turning a > steering wheel, the lens moves in a circle rather than rotating in one spot. > > I realize this doesn't affect many people, but when I was rotating my camera > while taking long exposures of light strands, I could never get the lens to > be at the center of rotation, and that was frustrating. > > So I came home and took a few dozen photos of my cats. Welcome to 2012. Shortly after reading this post, I was walking down the street and saw some holiday lights. This set is your fault: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157628662345135/ Taken with the FA31, I was too lazy to pull a zoom lens out of my pack. > -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
