Moose thus swam to the island:
>You haven't smashed any 5Ds yet, have you?
Uh, no.
>You want a poor viewfinder, check out some vintage folders. Oh yeah, and
>pre penta prism 35mm SLRs. My dad's old Praktiflex is just impossible.
>The optics and mirror are clean, but I can hardly see to frame, let
>alone focus.
You are absolutely correct. Not all old cameras evolved to higher
lifeforms. The Nikons, Canons, Olympus and Leicas are examples which
reincarnated to something greater.
>As usual, you exaggerate a bit for effect. I don't see that kind of
>churn on the list.
You mean somebody other than Andrew? ;)
Actually, I'm not exaggerating too much. My past history with technology
(pre marriage) made me a posterchild of planned obsolescence--as much as my
finances ever allowed.
When I got the E-1, I honestly didn't plan on using it longer than 18
months. In fact, as many of you will remember, I didn't even want to get
the E-1, but was going to bail altogether from Olympus. You can thank Mr.
Bill Barber (NSURIT) for keeping me in the fold. So, I buy this refurb from
Cameta for $1025 which included the 14-54 lens. That was pretty close to
the cost of the appliances which I also had to buy my wife in exchange for
permission to get the camera. That was what? 3 1/2 years ago? My problem
is that I get too attached to my cameras. How could I ever get rid of a
camera that survived a rockslide and yeilded one of the best pictures I've
ever taken? How could I part with the OM-2S which travelled with me for the
past 22 years and has over 100,000 exposures on it? I'm just a big softie.
>No, but I don't fish, so this is one way of watching a big one rise to
>the bait. ;-)
Yeah, I'm pretty transparant when it comes to that. Like a rainbow trout
gobbling up mayflies.
>I know I "should" use spot metering all the time to prove what a
>serious, macho photographer I am, but I mostly don't except in really
>tough lighting.
Ahem, don't tell anybody, but almost all of the photographs I've taken with
the OM-4T so far have been in Auto mode using the center-weighted averaging
meter. Sick, isn't it? But, hey, when I look at the lighting conditions, I
know, through experience, when I can and when I can't trust the auto
metering system. Multi-spot is there when I need it and want it.
>Simple enough with an old. MF prime, where infinity focus it where it
>stops at the end. :-)
Oh how I wish this was true. Almost all telephotos focus slightly past
infinity.
>That's tough to get right. I remember the photog at my first wedding
>almost duckwalking backward in front of my bride and I, firing away with
>Rollei and potato masher flash. He got the shots, though. I don't have
>the wife anymore, but still have the album.
LOL, the duckwalk is an acquired skill. My knees can't take it anymore so
I've altered my working method by using zooms. Zoom lenses and auto-flash
make the duckwalk less necessary. However, when I'm shooting two cameras, I
have to fire the manual camera first (trap focus) and then use the AF camera
to get whatever I can get. For the processional, I plant myself at the
aisle just in front of the first pew. I place both cameras on the floor,
pick up the first one which is prefocused on a pew and take the picture when
they reach that pew, set that camera down, pick up the other which has a
wider focal-length, frame and shoot, set it down, pick up the first one
again for the next couple. I shoot from the center of the aisle, but just
slide out of the way when the couple reaches me. As I'm down on my knees I'm
not visually interrupting the wedding. Unfortunately, without the duckwalk,
I don't always get the best possible facial expression as I take the picture
when I have to, not when I want to. Such is life.
There is one wedding picture I want to get someday, but neither have the
proper equipment nor the "access". I want a wide-angle shot of the
bride/father coming down the aisle from high above the alter. I've seen it
done only once and it is such a cool shot. Unfortunately, most churches
have no possible location where I can mount a camera 20 feet up in the air.
>I haven't heard any loan offers - yet. :-)
Slackers.
AG
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