[pim]

Lippy, on Feb 4 2007, 12:44 PM, said:

I still love my camera, but I was it had image stabilization and an 28mm wide angle equivalent at the low end of the zoom. My next one will.

If you are looking for a camera with zoom, don't be fooled by the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7. Even with the Leica lens, that camera does horribly in low light -apparently the long zoom in this case meant a tiny light receptor. A friend of mine in Paris has one, and she's not happy with it at all. She had to buy another camera just to use in lower light settings, in fact.

[Robert Schonfeld]

Melonious Thunk, on Feb 6 2007, 12:03 PM, said:

Robert Schonfeld, on Feb 6 2007, 10:08 AM, said:

Robert Capa (one "p"), one of my heroes, used Leica, Contax and Nikon. The Rollei, a terrific camera (I had one just like yours) would have been ungainly for his line of work.

I stand corrected on both counts. Who was the guy I recall with the Rollei? I have this image of a rugged looking guy with dark curly hair and intense eyes, in his late 30s early 40s, cigarette hanging from the side of his mouth, taking pictures in action situations with a Rollei. I thought I saw that on the Capa biography that was shown on WNET recently.

Oh well, fantasies don't have to be historically accurate, do they?

That could be the great police photographer and chronicler of the New York scene, Weegee, aka Arthur Fellig.

[Melonious Thunk]

Robert Schonfeld, on Feb 6 2007, 05:51 PM, said:

Melonious Thunk, on Feb 6 2007, 12:03 PM, said:

Robert Schonfeld, on Feb 6 2007, 10:08 AM, said:

Robert Capa (one "p"), one of my heroes, used Leica, Contax and Nikon. The Rollei, a terrific camera (I had one just like yours) would have been ungainly for his line of work.

I stand corrected on both counts. Who was the guy I recall with the Rollei? I have this image of a rugged looking guy with dark curly hair and intense eyes, in his late 30s early 40s, cigarette hanging from the side of his mouth, taking pictures in action situations with a Rollei. I thought I saw that on the Capa biography that was shown on WNET recently.

Oh well, fantasies don't have to be historically accurate, do they?

That could be the great police photographer and chronicler of the New York scene, Weegee, aka Arthur Fellig.

According to Wikipedia "Most of his notable photographs were taken with very basic press photographer equipment and methods of the era, a 4x5 Speed Graphic camera preset at f/16, @ 1/200 of a second with flashbulbs and a set focal length of ten feet."

I'll keep the Capa image. After all, he was making it with Ingrid Bergman.

[Stone]

It ain't the arrow. It's the indian.

[pim]

Continuing to explore my Leica, here's a shot with the Night Scenery mode, from the walk 'home' just now. Very low lighting, and, of coures, no tripod.



Not awful.

[cristina]

Rebecca, on Feb 6 2007, 12:31 PM, said:

cristina, on Feb 6 2007, 06:36 AM, said:

This Sony A100 DSLR is a dream in low light, too.

These pictures are stunning. I want a camera like yours. Oh, fairy Godmother, please! The B&H catalog has several Sony A100 versions with and without flash etc., from $699 to $1200. Cristina, again, which to pick?

This is the one I have:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller...u=438940&is=REG

They gave me a 1gig card with it.

[tanabutler]

You can get pretty good package deals on eBay for camera kits. That's where I got my D200. I chose J & K Camera because they had, at the time, 100% positive feedback on thousands of sales. (It's still 99.9%, which is darned good.) I did have a service issue that wasn't exactly anyone's fault, but they worked with me to make me happy.

They've got some REALLY good deals now.

J & K Camera store at eBay

J & K deals on Cristina's camera

[Robert Schonfeld]

Melonious Thunk, on Feb 6 2007, 06:28 PM, said:

According to Wikipedia "Most of his notable photographs were taken with very basic press photographer equipment and methods of the era, a 4x5 Speed Graphic camera preset at f/16, @ 1/200 of a second with flashbulbs and a set focal length of ten feet."

I'll keep the Capa image. After all, he was making it with Ingrid Bergman.

I actually knew that, and I thought about it as i was posting (there are famous pictures of Weegee with his Speed Graphic), but I thought he might have used a Rollei as his "small" camera. I wonder who it is you were remembering?

I had a Speed Graphic, in its original case, with all the extras, until I lost it in in a flood at our warehouse a few years ago. Now I am without it, the Rollei, the Brownie Starflash that was my first camera, the Kodak Retina Reflex that preceded my love affair with Nikon. I have all my Nikons, though. Even though I don't use them anymore, I'll never let them go, nor my Hasselblads.

[FaustianBargain]

tanabutler, on Feb 6 2007, 10:02 PM, said:

Don't get a Canon.
[..]
I'm a solid Nikon girl now.

of all the things you have ever uttered, these words are the most cruel...

its always sad to lose to the devil.

eta: fyi, my canon g1 is still functional(went twice to MACK for servicing) and sometimes i'd rather go back to it's hefty comfort than all the nifty new cameras they sell these days...

[tanabutler]

FaustianBargain, on Feb 6 2007, 11:27 PM, said:

tanabutler, on Feb 6 2007, 10:02 PM, said:

Don't get a Canon.
[..]
I'm a solid Nikon girl now.

of all the things you have ever uttered, these words are the most cruel...

its always sad to lose to the devil.

eta: fyi, my canon g1 is still functional(went twice to MACK for servicing) and sometimes i'd rather go back to it's hefty comfort than all the nifty new cameras they sell these days...

I had that Canon G1 Powershot. Loved it, loved it—it really became an extension of me, which is a point I'm not yet at with my Nikon D200, and which I never reached with the Powershot Pro1. I gave the G1 to an amazing young woman (a girl, actually, a junior in high school) thatl I met at the farmers market, in hopes of making her own dreams come true.

She wants to be a doctor (or maybe vet) and maybe a photographer, too.

It felt good to give it to her—the return on my investment is far greater than what I would have gotten (a pittance) had I sold it on Craig's List.

We still own an A85 and my semi-functional Powershot Pro1, which I also couldn't sell because of its multiple defects. The guy at the camera store enlightened me: "The Pro1 was Canon's Edsel." If only I knew that before I shelled out over a thousand dollars for it.

This is the young lady who got the G1. Isn't she great?

[GrantK]

[quote name='Melonious Thunk' date='Feb 4 2007, 09:28 PM' post='774409']
[quote name='Robert Schonfeld' post='774401' date='Feb 6 2007, 05:51 PM']

According to Wikipedia "Most of his notable photographs were taken with very basic press photographer equipment and methods of the era, a 4x5 Speed Graphic camera preset at f/16, @ 1/200 of a second with flashbulbs and a set focal length of ten feet."

I'll keep the Capa image. After all, he was making it with Ingrid Bergman.
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I think they meant a set focus distance of ten feet. A ten foot lens would be a big telescope.

[tanabutler]

Popular Photography today reviews the new Nikon D40

It lists at PopPhoto for about $600, but I see kits on eBay for that: lots of value for the dollar, it looks like.

[Melonious Thunk]

After much to and fro and hither and yon, I finally bought a DSLR today. I chose the Nikon D200 with two lenses: The mid-range 30-300 digital zoom and and 18-70 digital. Both are among the sharpest of the Nikon lenses below the pro-range. I expect it to arrive Monday or Tueday.

Lots of learning to do.

[Rebecca]

Remember to run your practice shots past us so we can boo or hiss! (Yeah, right. Having seen your "lesser works" I just WISH I could hold your camera bag.) Any nice gardens in your neck of the woods?

[Silverbrow]

Just got the D40 with the 18-55 bog standard lens. My first dip into the DSLR pond. I will of course post first photos here to receive the general opprobrium.

Is Adobe Photoshop Essentials a decent programme for the Mac, or should I go for Aperture?

ta v much