I don’t have a flicker acct, couldn’t star/fave directly there… I am always impressed by the technical expertise needed to get the star shots, but the images themselves are usually not my favorite viewing. In this 15-30 set, what really caught my eye was the next-to-last shot, the waterfall (?)… Very nice!
Sent from my iPad > On Mar 28, 2022, at 1:28 AM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > On facebook someone was asking about the 15-30. It turned out that I had > already made an album of some photos I had taken with the 15-30 at night, and > I added a few more stretching the definition of night to duskish. It turns > out that most of my reasons for the 15-30 are more about versatility (zoom, > reasonably fast, reasonably wide, and weather sealing) rather than absolute > technical ability. It doesn’t matter how sharp the lens is if I can’t use it > to take the photo I’m trying for. > > I bought it when I bought my K-1, because to me the main technical advantage > of the K-1 was faster lenses at wider angle of view than I could get with an > APS body. I.e. there wasn’t a 10-20 that was f/2.8 or faster in APS. > > Aside from nerding out about the gear, I think I have gotten a few decent > images with this lens. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157694628847712 > -- > Larry Colen > l...@red4est.com > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
