15mm for dummies like me...

[Al Kaplan]

Another consideration re beat up old cameras, dirt impregnated Leica bags, etc. is that allows women at great distance to consider the possibility that you might not have showered for a dozen hours or longer, maybe even an entire day, and are just dripping with pheremones! Women are much more affected by odors than men, while men are mostly visual creatures.

 

[Glenn2]

Al why didn't you do a 15mm shot with this lady of mystery? Too smitten?

Seeing your shots on Pnet with the 15 got me hooked and I had to have one. Made my 21 Super Angulon almost seem like a normal.

Have you ever used the 15mm for photographing wildlife? A fun game is seeing how close you can get, then tripping the shutter at the decisive moment. Will try to attach a seagull shot from the local waterfront.

I call it, flipping the bird..... ;-)

Glenn

 

[Bob Michaels]

Ya know, Bob, next time Al sees you, you better have a few chunks of vulcanite falling off the camera. And a bit of brassing would help too. <snip>

The camera body that Al saw is my backup which has seen little use. In reality, my primary ZI is beginning to look a bit ratty as it has a scratch on the top plate and the vulcanite is beginning to come loose.

 

[Juan Valdenebro]

Closing down a very wide lens too much (maybe already at f/8) you will essentially have diffraction effects that rob you of any max sharpness, no matter where you focus ... So keep it sort of wide, maybe around f/5.6 or so ...

Nope. By f/8 this lens is as closed as any 1.2 lens shot by f/2, no diffraction.

 

[Bob Michaels]

<ship>Come to think of it, was Al by any chance holding your camera when that strange woman was all over him? 😉

I tell you that Al is fast. He sat down, said hello to me (first time we had met face to face) and Ana immediately struck up a conversation with him from the next table. I though they were old friends because things moved so quick.

I must say Ana is quite hot looking. Very friendly and outgoing but carrying a bit of emotional baggage. She is a massage therapist and art film maker. Could anyone pick a more ideal combination? Quite a bizarre lunch we shared. As we parted, she hugged Al and shook my hand.

She is interesting enough visually and emotionally that I would love to spend some time photographing her. But I am 200 miles away and Al lives in her neighborhood plus has other opportunities being single. So it was appropriate to step back.

Too bad there was not enough light for enough DOF to carry both her and Al. In retrospect, I question if I focused on the right person.

 

[Al Kaplan]

Ease up folks! Bob picked the day to come to Miami, he picked the restaurant, he picked the time, he and his son were already seated when l got there, and so was The Lady in Black. 😱

 

[kbg32]

"Cropped area (scanned at 4800 dpi) is 1/6th of frame area......" ?????

You're are way too far away from your subjects if you are cropping that much. Get close, close. closer!

 

[Juan Valdenebro]

"Cropped area (scanned at 4800 dpi) is 1/6th of frame area......" ?????

You're are way too far away from your subjects if you are cropping that much. Get close, close. closer!

kbg32,

I was not far from subjects at all. In fact I was very close. At 50 cms, to be exact, which is the minimal focusing distance, where I placed the first subject: the back of the first motorcycle, "HONDA". The second one was at 2 meters from camera. Then there are, until infinite, lots of subjects at all distances, to check focus at different focusing distances and f-stops...

As the test was on depth of field, it was not necessary to scan more than the center of the image: where all data can be visually read. I scanned in a good resolution just because it's on print, not on screen, where differences can be truly appreciated, and offered it here just in case someone wanted to see the lens instead of having a less precise opinion. For sure, with you I had no success! 🙂