You guys are above me on cameras..I'm learning in bits and pieces (I hope).

$.02

I really enjoyed the last Baja trip by "Black Rock".

The photographer quickly pulled me into the scenes and moments, I literally left reality and felt I was at the Sea of Cortez. Unreal pictures and subjects.

Carry on men...

Zzz wrote: Sexy girlfriend smoking a cigarette with a ukelele in hand on a dark Bangkok street? F/2.0.

Or the obligatory cat photo
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206684388499863&set=a.10206684388419861.1073741836.1578061075&type=3&theater

How do you attach photos to these posts?

Bagarre wrote:

Zzz wrote: Sexy girlfriend smoking a cigarette with a ukelele in hand on a dark Bangkok street? F/2.0.

Or the obligatory cat photo
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206684388499863&set=a.10206684388419861.1073741836.1578061075&type=3&theater

How do you attach photos to these posts?

Definitely.

I need a cat. (So I can play with my camera.)

I need a cat. (So I can play with my camera.)

I have an embarrassing number of photos of our dog. She's a lot easier to work with than the cat, I find.



That Fuji wide zoom looks pretty sweet.

Oregon180 wrote:She's a lot easier to work with than the cat, I find.

I find this hard to believe, having met her the day I visited your house...LOL. One word: enthusiasm.

Why don't vendors market lenses based on angle of view vs focal length?
Focal length may have made sense when everyone was shooting 35mm film but today the different sensors throw the commonality out the window and we end up converting to "full frame equivalent"

It's confusing as hell.
My new Fuji 18-55 (27-82 full frame equivalent) has an angle of view of 79º to 28º

Why not just call it a 79-28 degree lens?

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/images/Angles-02z.jpg

Bagarre wrote:Why don't vendors market lenses based on angle of view vs focal length?
Focal length may have made sense when everyone was shooting 35mm film but today the different sensors throw the commonality out the window and we end up converting to "full frame equivalent"

It's confusing as hell.
My new Fuji 18-55 (27-82 full frame equivalent) has an angle of view of 79º to 28º

Why not just call it a 79-28 degree lens?

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/images/Angles-02z.jpg

For the exact same reason we don't convert to the metric system: inertia and familiarity trumps logic and ease of use.

The 35mm format was an industry standard for so long that when sensor sizes changed everyone still thought in terms of how a lens projects onto that format. In my minds eye I know exactly what "27mm" looks like, while "79 degrees" doesn't mean a thing.

Medium format shooters have always had to make mental compensations for their lenses...a 50mm lens on a Hasselblad gives the same perspective as a 35mm lens on a 35mm sensor.

35mm is still the industry standard for professional shooters, and it's the professional-quality products that cary the brand. It's the $6,500 Nikon D5 that give credibility to the $100 CoolPix, so 35mm terminology is probably here to stay for a while.

Let's not bring the metric system into this; I just bought a new 9/16th box wrench.

But you're right.
Still frustrating for someone that didn't start in film and will never own a full frame.

Reviving an older thread. I've been lurking for several months, but because of a software glitch, I couldn't post.



I love wides and super-wides. My first kit of lenses included a 24mm Nikkor (along with a 55mm micro-Nikkor and a 135 f/3.5 Nikkor). I've owned a bunch of lenses (100+) since then, and currently have a lot of wides. 15, 18, 20, 21, 25, 17-35, 35. Oh, and two fisheyes (10.5mm and 16mm). Yeah. I like wides.

For me, the key is to get close to something and let the lens reach out to grab the environment to put that thing in its place.

Is there a decent way to mount a DSLR in the cockpit? It seems I'm always the pilot and the photographer, so it's either the GoPro or the phone. I suppose I could get the RAM mount with the clamp on it and unzip my headliner and clamp it to the spar...

As far as a budget wide angle goes, I recently got the Irix 15mm f2/4 (Blackstone). It's manual focus but it's sealed and that's important to me. They have an 11mm now. Haven't seen any reviews yet. I shoot Pentax (again with the sealed body) so my options are more limited than the Canon and Nikon peeps.

Is there a decent way to mount a DSLR in the cockpit? It seems I'm always the pilot and the photographer, so it's either the GoPro or the phone. I suppose I could get the RAM mount with the clamp on it and unzip my headliner and clamp it to the spar...

As far as a budget wide angle goes, I recently got the Irix 15mm f2/4 (Blackstone). It's manual focus but it's sealed and that's important to me. They have an 11mm now. Haven't seen any reviews yet. I shoot Pentax (again with the sealed body) so my options are more limited than the Canon and Nikon peeps.

PilotMikeTx wrote:Is there a decent way to mount a DSLR in the cockpit?

I use a tripod with individually adjustable legs. Then I secure it with a seatbelt or rope through the weight hook.

Wides are a great way to place a plane, person, or anything else in the environment.

You have to click on the photos to see them uncropped.

niente qui

I made the switch from Nikon to Sony, completing the process by selling all this stuff, and much more. Started with 6x6 format in 1964. Have owned full systems of Nikon, Leica RF, Leice SLR, Olympus, Pentax 35mm, Pentax 4.5x6, Pentax 6x7, Fuji X system, and more.

I’m loving the size and weight of the Sony system along with IBIS and advanced technology.

Well, I did keep five Zeiss F-mount lense which work well on the Sonys. The 15mm Zeiss is amazing.

niente qui

Absolutely. Put money into good glass.

Then again, “f/8 and be there.”

BTW, we may have bumped into each other years ago. I spent a few years as editor of Alaska Magazine, before and right after it was sold to Yankee. ‘82-87.

We may well did. I was there 85-88. Flew the Twin Otter, the UH-1H and the M, along with a 212. Most of the time in the Aleutians, Nome, NARL, St Mary's, Cold Bay. We took a lot of press around, especially the "Wild Kingdom" guys. If you saw the Twin Otter, it was usually me flying it.