On 3/6/2012 1:21 PM, Walt Gilbert wrote:
Quite nice. And, while I've never really used a modern pro lens, I do
have a hard time imagining how I could do much better than my beloved
manual focus 50's.
Quite often, autofocus can work more accurately than manual focus.
Assuming, of course, that it focuses perfectly on the right thing.
Autofocus, is also quite often faster than manual focus.
When I had my long hair cut off, the self portraits with my manual focus
Minolta were quite a challenge. I put the camera on a tripod, leaned a
broom up against a chair where I was going to stand, focused on the
broom. Moved stuff out of the way, put the camera on self timer and then
went to stand where the broom was. Of course, with film, I couldn't
tell if I'd gotten the focus right until after the prints were developed.
http://www.red4est.com/lrc/pix/spgallery_041220/s_port041220-029-13N.jpg
http://www.red4est.com/lrc/pix/spgallery_041220/s_port041220-011-4N.jpg
http://www.red4est.com/lrc/pix/selfport041221b/5513445-r1-042-19aN.jpg
http://www.red4est.com/lrc/pix/selfport041221b/5513445-r1-040-18aN.jpg
(Though, I was quite taken with Larry's 77/1.8 when
he let me use it for a bit.)
I don't know if the 77 counts as a modern lens, as it dates from the
film era. It is, however, quite possibly my favorite piece of glass so far.
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Larry Colen [email protected] (from dos4est)
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