Hi, as it 'appens, guys & gals, I have a book called "Visual Anthropology" by John Collier, who worked for the FSA in the 1940s and has taught and published widely on this very subject. The book was first published in 1967 but mine is a 1992 edition, so it's not particularly out of date.
He likes 28mm, 50mm and 85-100mm and seems to prefer speed over zooms. Zooms in the 28-100mm range are his recommendation. This matches my own experience. Although I'm not an anthropologist by any means I am interested in that general field and when I go abroad I'm interested in photographing people and their culture, so I try to take a sort-of very amateurish anthropological approach to what I'm doing. I could easily get by with a 35/1.4 and an 85/1.4 or similar. I would take a small flash and a winder, but use the flash only when absolutely, absolutely necessary. Collier recommends bounced flash for its modelling effects. He also suggests using the open flash technique if you're not sure that the flash or camera is reliable - presumably a consideration after some time in the field. This technique means open the shutter on 'B', fire the flash, close the shutter. I've used this technique successfully myself, but with the LX and I let it decide when to close the shutter. If you're not afraid of looking at other people's photos before you go, I can recommend "A Greek Portfolio" by Costa Manos. http://www.magnumphotos.com/Manos.html --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 4:20:42 PM, you wrote: > Let's suppose you were preparing for an anthropological field trip to > Greece. Besides observations and interviews you'd also like to do some > photo-documentation (people, houses, interiors, decorations, landscapes) > but travel really light at the same time. You're taking an LX and a tripod. > The question is what lenses would you take. 1) a "classic" set of old > primes (24/2.8; 50/ 1.4 M; 85/2.0 M and maybe 135/3.5 M) or 2) the one zoom > you own (35-105/3.5 A) or 3) some other combination from the previous? > Flash or winder? - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
