bobm
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Post by bobm on Nov 28, 2006 4:48:13 GMT -5
Unless you're meaning a P&S here, they already produce DSLRs for that very purpose and it wouldn't do to have a P&S that perhaps undermines possible DSLR sales.
It's called specmanship - punters only see the megapixel rating, a super zoom lens and a load of techno sales blurb and reckon that that's all they need as the technology will take care of the rest.
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Post by herron on Nov 28, 2006 9:43:25 GMT -5
yes ron, it's a leica lens, but i think maybe designed by leica and made by panasonic or someone else. i read that somewhere. it is a 36 to 432 mm equivilent and 2.8 throughout the zoom range. it's a very big lens on a small digital body. Joe, someone on either this board or another board posted some images that he took with a camera just like yours (IIRC) and the quality was VERY impressive! One was of a car sitting in a field that was taken from an overlook. The car was small but then at maximum zoom the details were amazing. Sadly, my need is for as wide a lens as possible and 36mm (35mm equivalent) won't do. My Sigma gives me 22.5mm (35mm equavilent) and sometimes that's not wide enough. I photograph the interiors of homes for our real estate web site. Walker Walker: My son is an architectural photographer. I'm not sure what lenses he uses for his interiors, but I know he has been taking them with one of the newest Canon DSLRs. Perhaps I can get an answer from him for you! You can visit his web site to see the kind of results he has been getting!  |
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Post by herron on Nov 28, 2006 9:49:09 GMT -5
Ron Herron asked: Ron, The name Boxing Day in the UK goes back 800 years or more to medieval times. Two explanations of the name are common. The first is that alms boxes were placed at the back of churches for church members to donate money to the poor. These were tradionally opened and the money distributed once a year, on the day after Christmas. The alms boxes in those days weren't shaped like a box. They were hollow clay spheres with a slit in the top and were opened by breaking them. Some people say they were the inspiration for childrens' clay and pottery piggy banks. Today, in our so-called Welfare State, the boxes are for donating to the upkeep of the church. The second explanation is that on the day after Christmas, which was a public holiday, it was traditional for the Lord and Lady of the manor to 'box-up' the left-over food and wine from their Christmas banquet and take it round as a gift to the tennants who lived and worked on their estates - hence the origin of a 'Christmas Box' from an employer to employees. Nowadays Boxing day is still supposed to be a public holiday, but since the relaxing of trading laws many shops open on Boxing Day for the start of the New Year sales, which originally started on January 2. Boxing Day is also the Feast of St. Stephen - remember the old carol about King Wencelas who looked out on the Feast of Stephen and went out in the snow with his page to bring in and feed a poor peasant who was gathering wood for fuel? This is said by some to be the start of the tradition of giving to the poor on the day after Christmas - "Therefore Christian men be sure, wealth or rank possessing, Ye who now [ie, at Christmas time] do bless the poor shall yourselves find blessing". PeterW
Thanks for the explanation, Peter. I'm familiar with the carol -- and with the Feast of St. Stephen. Never knew what Boxing Day had to do with either one! I'm a little more educated now, thanks to you. |
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Post by doubs43 on Nov 28, 2006 11:41:43 GMT -5
Walker: My son is an architectural photographer. I'm not sure what lenses he uses for his interiors, but I know he has been taking them with one of the newest Canon DSLRs. Perhaps I can get an answer from him for you! You can visit his web site to see the kind of results he has been getting! Ron, those are very well done images. I use a Pentax *ist-DS with Sigma 15~30mm Zoom. I keep it set at 15mm for almost all of my interior images and use 100% of the resulting images. I post them at 14 x 9.3 inches and customers rave about our website. At the 15mm setting, I estimate that I'm getting a 22.5mm lens when converted to 35mm equavilent. Our website is here: www.billandcarolphelps.com Go to "Homes for Sale" and click on a thumbnail to see any particular home. Walker |
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Post by SidW on Nov 28, 2006 19:21:25 GMT -5
Walker, such a camera existed as long as Canon were doing their G series - standard Canon exposure options from shutter preference to full manual, hot shoe, raw images etc. Now, for the G7, they've abandoned the f/2 lens, raw images and optical viewfinder and added a 7 league zoom that looks like everyone else's
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Post by herron on Nov 28, 2006 20:01:56 GMT -5
Walker: My son is an architectural photographer. I'm not sure what lenses he uses for his interiors, but I know he has been taking them with one of the newest Canon DSLRs. Perhaps I can get an answer from him for you! You can visit his web site to see the kind of results he has been getting! Ron, those are very well done images. I use a Pentax *ist-DS with Sigma 15~30mm Zoom. I keep it set at 15mm for almost all of my interior images and use 100% of the resulting images. I post them at 14 x 9.3 inches and customers rave about our website. At the 15mm setting, I estimate that I'm getting a 22.5mm lens when converted to 35mm equavilent. Walker Walker: I asked my son what lenses he uses most often when he's shooting 35mm (or its digital equivalent). He's shooting with that new Canon multi-megapixel DSLR....this was his reply: |
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bobm
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Post by bobm on Nov 29, 2006 14:16:52 GMT -5
If Ron's son's Canon DSLR is FF and he's using a Canon WA, I'm not surprised with his findings, as the distortion he refers to is the subject of much discussion on Canon specific boards.
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Post by herron on Nov 29, 2006 22:28:14 GMT -5
If Ron's son's Canon DSLR is FF and he's using a Canon WA, I'm not surprised with his findings, as the distortion he refers to is the subject of much discussion on Canon specific boards. Actually, he'd much rather be shooting with his 4x5 view camera, so he could take advantage of all the swings and tilts to control perspective. When he's shooting for his architectural clients and magazines, they get very picky about things like parallax, and want it eliminated. Perpendicular lines and all that. No smaller format camera is going to be able to do all that (although Canon does have a shift lens that helps with some of it)...and the digital back for those large format cameras costs as much as a new car!  I think he does quite well with it...and his formal film training helps. His clients love him! |
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