eric.schmiedl
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I was carrying both the D200 with 17-35/2.8 zoom and the R-D1 with CV 28/1.9 when I covered the Harry Potter celebrations in Harvard Square.
And as it so happens, I used both cameras to shoot just about the same thing from just about the same vantage point. Here are the best photos of that subject from each camera:
(the R-D1)
(the D200)
The R-D1 shot was the first photo I took after I noticed the dancers. From a distance I saw some kind of performance, so I jumped up on a railing and raised the R-D1. Waiit for it... Great. I shot a few more for good measure, and then the guy with the boom box held the boombox over his head -- but he was about ten feet to my right. Then he started moving towards me. The composition was obvious when he stopped right in front of where I was standing. But the 28 was a little long for the composition (if I moved back, I wouldn't be able to see all the dancers through the little window formed by guy and boombox), and the parallax error meant that people's heads were being covered by the guy's arms, the lady's head was in the wrong way... argh. Out came the D200 with the 17mm-35mm f/2.8 lens. Ground glass focus and wide-angle zoom to the rescue!
And as it so happens, I used both cameras to shoot just about the same thing from just about the same vantage point. Here are the best photos of that subject from each camera:
(the R-D1)
(the D200)
The R-D1 shot was the first photo I took after I noticed the dancers. From a distance I saw some kind of performance, so I jumped up on a railing and raised the R-D1. Waiit for it... Great. I shot a few more for good measure, and then the guy with the boom box held the boombox over his head -- but he was about ten feet to my right. Then he started moving towards me. The composition was obvious when he stopped right in front of where I was standing. But the 28 was a little long for the composition (if I moved back, I wouldn't be able to see all the dancers through the little window formed by guy and boombox), and the parallax error meant that people's heads were being covered by the guy's arms, the lady's head was in the wrong way... argh. Out came the D200 with the 17mm-35mm f/2.8 lens. Ground glass focus and wide-angle zoom to the rescue!
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