Mike Johnson's liteny of lenses <g>

[Jeroen]

Something else I find funny is everybody's flipping about the importance of burst modes and so-and-so-many-frames-per-second on digital cameras. I never heard pros (or amateurs) complaining about the one shot per second they got with their Leica (or other film camera)...

 

[TPPhotog]

Good point of the fps! I find that I get better action shots with single shot RFs and SLRs as I concentrate on the movement and nailing the shot more than I do with a motor-wind camera. I think single shot focuses the brain (excuse the pun) 😀

 

[DougK]

I've never paid any attention to the fps spec, myself. Trees, rocks, and buildings just don't normally move all that quickly and if they do, I'm certainly not going to be standing around taking pictures of them.

 

[Little Prince]

I love this piece on the lenses. Thanks for bringing to my attention again. Had read it before but reading it again reinforces some viewpoints. Very sarcastic and enjoyable. This reminds me that I received the new issue of the 37th frame a couple of days back but just haven't read it. Gotta go do that today. Did I mention before I love sarcasm 🙂?

 

[doubs43]

In the '80s and early '90s, the 500 mirror lenses were very common with photojournalists and the awards photos were filled with "donut-ring" bokeh. I suspect the lenses fell out of favor with digital SLRs and the 1.5 crop factor.

Here's a shot I took of a water tower late one Summer evening using the MTO-1000mm f/10. The distance is over a mile. Only the bushes in the foreground show any indication of "donutting" and then very little. I need to do more experimenting but it seems to me that the more OOF something is, the greater the donut effect. Shots I've taken at 200 meters with a background filling the picture and not being far behind the subject show no donutting at all.

Walker

 

[Kin Lau]

Something else I find funny is everybody's flipping about the importance of burst modes and so-and-so-many-frames-per-second on digital cameras. I never heard pros (or amateurs) complaining about the one shot per second they got with their Leica (or other film camera)...

If you shoot Nature or Sports, then you need the fps. The fastest camera's from Canon & Nikon are in the 10fps range and are _film_ camera's, not digital, so this is not a "digital" problem. You're not slagging digital, just slr's in general.

Many nature shooters, especially bird shooters recommend shooting in bursts of 3 or 4 shots, and have been doing so _long_ before digital arrived. If you think you have reaction times faster than a bird or even a squirrel... good luck 🙂

Of course, RF & FPS just don't belong in the same sentence 🙂.

 

[kiev4a]

His analysis is as funny as it is true. I get tired of the folks on the P.net Nikon forum who act like anyone who doesn't own the 70-210 f2.8 Nikkor should be allowed to participate in discussions.

 

[Will]

Normal/standard (50mm): Useful for taking photographs, if you have a thick skin. When used exclusively, classic “hair shirt” lens for disciplining oneself needlessly. Strangely, when in skilled hands, can mimic moderate wide angles as well as short telephotos. According to one far Eastern expert, lower yield of usable shots than 35mm lens, but higher yield of great shots. Second best focal length for a Leica.

Agree, my sucess rate is not high, but usually have my best one by normal lens(50mm in 135, & 80mm in 6x6)

 

[RML]

His analysis is as funny as it is true. I get tired of the folks on the P.net Nikon forum who act like anyone who doesn't own the 70-210 f2.8 Nikkor should be allowed to participate in discussions.

I don't even own anything Nikon. Is perhaps also the reason why I don't participate in the Nikon forum. 🙂