Book: Examples... by Ansel

2002-06-15 Thread Brentwo1025
I've been reading over this book recently just to get a feel for how a well-known photographer went about his work. Its a pretty good book, although, a lot of the pictures have similarities, making some of the narratives a little repetitive: Most of them were taken only a little ways from his

Q: Metering and B&W filters

2002-06-09 Thread Brentwo1025
After only a few years into photography I've come to get a little bored with color shots, and have realized that I personally find B&W more intrieging and expressive. Recently I have been shooting more with a Yashica-D TLR (fault Tiger Moses for showing me his Yashica-D, while on a Business tri

Ebay: is this for real?

2001-06-25 Thread Brentwo1025
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1249131626 does the lens this guy is describing really existthe description sounds like he's reading off of the lens hood and not the lens. I can't tell what is really there by the picture. Brent

question for the technically inclined

2001-06-25 Thread Brentwo1025
 Reading bits a pieces of the discussion regarding the quite possible development of a CCD back by members of this very list got me thinking of some other useful possibilities. Right now a super program is pretty much what I shoot with about 90% of the time. I don't have a TTL flash, but

Re: Portrait lens wanted

2001-05-31 Thread Brentwo1025
> M100/2.8 - $165  (not rare, but not a common focal length)A100/2.8 - $185   (more > for the same lens in A mount)K105/2.8 - $230+?  (this I would call semi-rare, it's   > old and some folks love it) Thanks. This was the kind of information i was looking for. Several have pointed me towards an

Portrait lens wanted

2001-05-30 Thread Brentwo1025
 I've been hunting for a good portait lens for a while, but E-bay has been awfully slow lately. (unless you are in to belt buckles and endoscopes). What i'm looking for is a K105/2.8 or an M or A 100/2.8 (not macro). I've passed up the M a few times b/c i'm waiting to see an A 100 or K 105

EB: 500/1.8 !?

2001-05-23 Thread Brentwo1025
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1240410494 I'd like to see the picture of this one. It would have to be freaking huge wouldn't it? brent

Re: EB: here's one for Texas

2001-05-23 Thread Brentwo1025
>>I think that someone from Texas should jump all over this one. >> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1239107821 >>Brent from Auburn, AL >Looks like a 'bama item to me, Brent. Shoot naw. We ain't got no use fer dems down hear in the heart of Dixie. No one hear wears axessori

EB: here's one for Texas

2001-05-22 Thread Brentwo1025
I think that someone from Texas should jump all over this one. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1239107821 Brent from Auburn, AL

OT: MAX demonstration on kodak.com

2001-05-22 Thread Brentwo1025
has anyone seen this? Here's url: http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/researchDevelopment/productFeatures/pictures.s html? This is just plain manipulative IMHO. Show someone an underexposed photo, and then one properly exposed. For anyone who can spell ISO and knows the difference between 100 and 4