M8 in Paris

[dfoo]

Thats a great shot. Many of your shots seem to me to be framed a bit tight. Do you think its the crop factor influencing your minds learned lens eye?

 

[robklurfield]

Interesting that you think my shots are framed tight. I was worried someone would say they weren't framed tight enough. In the case of the dogs, you are absolutely right, but it was such a quick sequence of events that I was happy to get any shot. I got a bunch of others in a rapid burst, but this one capture the dogs best. My others were framed nicely on the people, but I felt this one captured that little guy's eyes just right.

I try to react to what my eyes see without letting my brain get in the way too much, so in my case the crop factor can easily become the CRAP factor (ie, some bad shots). Sometimes life just happens and you're lucky enough to have camera in had. Not being Carrtier-Bresson, I'm just happy to have a record of what I saw.

That plus, after the age of 40 it seems the old eyesight goes steadily downhill.

 

[dfoo]

Take the shot of the kid on the scooter a couple of posts up. To me the shot would be better if the camera was tilted down slightly (ie: less building, more scooter).

 

[robklurfield]

dfoo, I wanted to frame this one much tighter, but the guy with the mattress was moving so fast, I just about missed him disappearing into the building. This kind of thing drives me crazy.

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[robklurfield]

 

[robklurfield]

dfoo, I agree 100% with you.

 

[robklurfield]

of course, I could crop these in photoshop, but that would cheating, wouldn't it??? If I were going to print these, I'm sure I would crop them just as dfoo suggests.

 

[dfoo]

Yeah, it could probably have been framed a bit tighter. You could always crop, but you cannot add stuff to the edges of the frame. 🙂 I'm interested in an M8, but I always wonder how much the crop factor would drive me nuts. I certainly did in Canon DSLRs.

 

[robklurfield]

dfoo, I doubt the crop factor would be an issue from a shooting standpoint. After all, you're framing what you see. It would be no different than switching from a .85 magnification on your MP to .72 or .58. Your brain will make the adjustment. Perhaps I'm wrong. Muscle memory and visual memory may play more of role than I know. To me though, it is like riding a bicycle. Once you learn, you never forget how to ride (or is it really, once you learn you never forget how to fall off)... what I mean, is you can switch bikes, and it may take a little bit of adjustment, but pretty quicky everything works out even if the position is slightly adjusted. Of course, I have no idea what the crop factor means for printing M8 images yet, as I've only had the camera three weeks now. My best advice is to borrow one and shoot with it. I would guess my framing was no better on my earlier M's (m4 and m6 .72 classic). In other words, it's likelier to be me and not the camera.

 

[robklurfield]

"Eiffel Tower Wedding: I've got the Ferrari, I've got the girl, what more could a man want?"

Walking towards the Eiffel Tower, I happened along this fellow who was, probably with ample justification on that day, feeling quite superior to everyone else on the boulevard. I must admit, they were certainly traveling in style (even if it turns out, as I suspect, to have been a rental).

 

[robklurfield]

Rue St. Didier at night. 2.8 28mm wide open at 4 sec and 1250 iso. Panned to follow guy crossing street.

 

[robklurfield]

Trocadero Wheelie

 

[robklurfield]

Scooting at Trocadero

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[capitalK]

1700 shots is a lot, but if you break it down that's 47 rolls of 36 exposures... less than 7 rolls a day. That's a lot, but not unheard of.

 

[robklurfield]

I guess it was more like 1200 or fewer unique shots after accounting for duplicates (saved all the color ones as BOTH DNG and JPG... so many of them are double counted; after reading a tip by JAAPY I only save B&W as fine JPGs). I am not normally that trigger-happy, but then again, I'm also don't normally find myself in Paris for a week.

 

[capitalK]

Yeah, so at 1200 shots that is less than 5 rolls of 36 a day. That is totally reasonable, I don't know why people are giving you a hard time.

 

[martin s]

Trocadero Wheelie

Have you been to the Koxx Days or did you just meet those guys?

martin

 

[robklurfield]

Martin, what is Koxx Days? Never met these two guys. I was walking across the park with my wife and daughter and came upon these two doing all sort of tricks.