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Re: Fast wide-angle lens

griff — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:18:40 -0000

congrats on your new lense.
24mm at f1.4!!! green with envy.

i've been shooting on the street at night at f1.4, using briggate's sigma 30mm. auto focus seems to be working fine, although the beam of light that the d40x throws out when auto-focusing sometimes gives the game away when trying to frame a candid shot. (i'm getting proficient at targeting an equidistant elbow though).

also been using the 50mm at f1.8 which works out ok at ISO1600,
the 1.4 allows me to shoot at ISO800 though, which is nice :-)

the 50mm has no auto focus on my d40x, and although frustrating at first has definitely improved my manual focusing techniques!!! so much more satisfying when you are doing it all by yourself...

good luck with your experiments dan.

Re: Fast wide-angle lens

dansumption — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:25:20 -0000

Wow, thanks Paul - I hadn't spotted that on Hey Hot Shot (had seen the winners, and been gutted not to be among them). This makes life worth living again!

From memory, I think Maciej uses a 30mm or 35mm f/1.4, check the image properties on some of his night shots and you'll see it there. Of course, on my 1.6 crop, the 24mm equates to about the same focal length as Maciej's lens on his 5D.

Re: Fast wide-angle lens

Paul Russell — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:10:39 -0000

BTW, well done on your "honorable mention" for the latest Hey Hot Shot!

Re: Fast wide-angle lens

Paul Russell — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:59:04 -0000

"Iâ€™m back home now, and initial results areâ€¦ interesting. With such a wide aperture, auto-focus is an absolute pig, and manual focus at f/1.4 with a crop digital viewfinder is next to impossible, but itâ€™s a challenge"

That sounds tricky Reading a comment on David Solomons Flickr stream thingy, I think that Maciej Dakowicz uses some flavour of f1.4 lens for his night-time Cardiff pictures.

Anyway, what are you doing wasting money on eating out - I have a ridiculous print sale on! It's an investment.

Re: Fast wide-angle lens

dansumption — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:43:17 -0000

Hyperfocal focusing? At f/1.4? That gives me a margin of about, ooh, 5mm to play with? Probably a bit less.

Re: Fast wide-angle lens

Suzi Fishcake — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:46:58 -0000

Hyperfocal focusing, darling.

Discuss.

Re: Fast wide-angle lens

Jonny — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 06:49:12 -0000

I got a Paterson enlarger timer 2000D - yours for a tenner.

Re: Fast wide-angle lens

Jonny — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 03:54:04 -0000

Hi Dan, all sounds intriguing. Doubt if I'll ever get my head round all the techno of pro-photography, even though I'll be studying it at uni soon! Here's some more pics taken with my snappy Fujifilm A310 and doctored in Picasa's free software. http://picasaweb.google.com...
Good enough for my needs. Feel free to comment please! I do appreciate good photography and you're a good exponent of it for sure. Sounds like your ways of spending money are similar to mine though?!!