As for exposure issues: I leave that up to my 4T's as a rule. They're
marvelously accurate and consistently so--the (averaging) spot function is
a godsend. If it's after dark and a tripod's called for then I can always
drag out the Gossen. I didn't buy it for nothing. Meanwhile, the lens can
and must only do so much, and no amount of fretting about that or worrying
over the difference will ultimately affect the picture I end up with down
the road,
I just don't see a lens as the critical link in the chain. I see the
photographer as that. Next, the film. Finally, existing light conditions.
lenses are lenses and while I love Zuiko glass and know it be of excellent
quality as a rule, I doubt if there are many photographers in the world who
could tell the difference in images rendered by Zuiko and the next brand.
Could you? I doubt I could, and I'm not about to worry about this late in
the game.
Tris
At 06:10 AM 7/27/01 -0700, you wrote:
Tris writes:
<< Tests are one thing, work out in the field another. >>
I'm not doing tests anymore. I'm back in the field shooting - a lot.
I'm diversifying my portfolio now that I'll be teaching photography on
the college level. The whole test process helped me cull my working
bag(s) of lenses and know their limitations.
<< When I go to shoot I think a whole lot more about the film I'm taking
vis-a-vis the light I expect to have and whether my subject will be
moving or still than I do about my lenses at all, and peripheral field
of view is something I've never given a serious thought for quarter of a
century. >>
Corner focus ability is important day in and day out. How many times
when in right brain mode do we get a shot framed and set up on a tripod
and forget to have checked the depth of field? It is way easier to
determine the close focus distance (often an object in a corner, in my
compositions) by not moving the camera. There are too many Zuikos in
which the corner image in the viewfinder, on at least a 1 series screen,
is mush. Mush = anytime you have to hunt for correct focus.
The characteristics I included in my tests concern me as a
photographer. "Vignetting" has an impact on metering accuracy and light
fall off in shots including the sky. Distortion is of the utmost
importance in anything we shoot with recognizable straight lines -
including trees! SQF grades help identify those Zuikos which will be
easiest to focus.
In case anyone wonders, I don't carry the SQF results with me on shoots.
I rarely get good shots if I stay left brain dominant during a shoot.
Which is why it's important for me to carry lenses I can trust. Which
are presently: 16, 18, 21/3.5, 24/2.8, 28/2, 35/2, 35-70/3.5~4.5 or
/3.6, 50/1.4, 80-200/2.8 Tamron SP, 90f/2, 135/4.5, 200/4, 300/4.5,
400/5.6 Noflexar, 600/6.5, 1.4x. Truth is that if I had that lens
versatility in medium format, I'd primary shoot MF.
Gary Reese
Las Vegas, NV
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