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Aug 01, 2007 00:58 |  #3046

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True happiness comes with being comfortable with one's own gear. Once you find the stuff that gives you consistent, pleasing results...you are on the road to nirvana. Some folks are destined to chase the holy grail of gear the rest of their lives and some of us are going to be content to just take good photos.;)

So that means I arrived a long time ago. I knew the 5D was the Chosen One the day I picked it up and slapped a 24-105 onto it. I just had to go through everything else to verify that it was. Anyway, now that I have gone through everything, I have truly arrived.

I'm still buying a little bit of FD stuff, but that is for play and to try something new, not in search of the holy grail.

I also thought I'd share a lesson I learned recently. I borrowed some MF gear from someone I know and went shooting with Provia 120. A lot of people accuse me of 'spraying and praying' and not spending enough time composing because apparently I don't have my eye glued to the viewfinder and because I shoot digital.

So I took the medium format for a drive and took my time. Spent an entire evening shooting just 15 frames. When the kickass results came back, I looked at the slides on the light table at the pro lab and I was blown away. And the best part? I composed and shot exactly the way I would have with a digital. It's not about the size of your viewfinder. Composition works perfectly fine in your MIND. Composition works perfectly on that 'ground glass' focusing screen called your RETINA in your EYE. As I walk around I'm mentally composing my shot. So all I need to do is bring the camera up to my eye to confirm framing and take the shot. This is a bit of a holdover from my film P&S days and my digital P&S days. I'd turn off the LCD to save battery power which meant I had to compose in this absolutely HORRIBLE optical 'tunnel' viewfinder the size of a drinking straw, so I got good at composing 'off camera' and merely confirming framing before taking the shot.

Wonder how long they will have to go to learn this lesson. You don't compose in your viewfinder. You compose in your mind.

This also largely confirms to me what I thought. Photography is photography, regardless of platform or system. It's all the same. The only things you have to learn on a new platform and system are how to get the technicalities and aspects of exposure control right, which is a 30-minute affair of reading the manual and 'dry firing' for me.

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Im with you on that. I love my 20D, it does what i need it to perfectly and even then it still has some features that i like to show off to people with :p

And that's cool! Congratulations :)




  
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Aug 01, 2007 01:03 |  #3047

And in related news, my FD 28/2.8 is here!!

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I swear this lens is Condition 10. Almost. If I don't look extremely closely and if for the fact someone had left their fingerprint on it, I'd have thought it was brand new. Beautiful specimen and it cost me a whopping $24.95 on Ebay. What a breath of fresh air. If I could only take one lens it would be a 28mm FOV lens (in 135 FF format, or equivalent). 45mm in 645 medium format, 17mm on APS-C. Screw the 50, it sucks ;) I can use the 50 and use it well, but I don't like it. My little medium format excursion had a Zeiss Planar 80/2.0 (50 equiv) on the front. 28.. now that's where WIDE begins!



  
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Aug 01, 2007 01:16 |  #3048

Grin...I just stumbled across this thread....

Permagrin wrote in post #3645290 (external link)
I am definitely in on this

I need to lose weight (I'm tired of huffing up those hills too Cat) and am ready to do so.

Next purchase: 300/2.8 ISL :D you also would want a big fat aluminium (read: heavy, but cheap) Manfrotto to go with it.

Look at Calicokat.... running after all those BIF with that much lens and a Mk2/Mk3 WILL give you a workout ;) my arms LOOK visibly bigger after spending a few hours panning and tracking with the 1-4 on the Mk2. Someone asked me if I'd been working out. I told them "You have no idea what I've been pumping.. glass, not iron!"

I know that whenever I run around with the full load of gear it definitely burns the calories! (it keeps the beer off too)

I am one of those people who absolutely REFUSES to work out, it really grates on me having to waste time on it. The physical exercise has got to be integrated into something I do and thus photography is one of the best things to happen to me, because I do it regularly, often, and will do lots of things I would never otherwise be expected to do. It makes me walk for miles without complaint (have a little device that measures the steps I take), carrying tons of stuff that I would never ordinarily have carried, up and down large structures (I like high-angle shots).. the whole works!

It's not a slow walk either. I am always in a hurry so it is a POWER walk most of the time. Should have seen me half-running across the Great Ocean Road cliffs with the whole boatload of gear just to get to the right position at the right time.




  
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Aug 01, 2007 01:24 as a reply to  @ Lightstream's post |  #3049

Finished Harry Potter -- and no, I won't say a word.

I'm a Bison/Owl -- with an outside chance at Sable.

A Bowle? :lol:


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Aug 01, 2007 02:01 |  #3050

Good morning!


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Aug 01, 2007 02:34 |  #3051

RAWR!


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got tupperware? these guys do!
i don't stalk people - i was looking at the bio!

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Aug 01, 2007 03:08 |  #3052

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RAWR!

sorry this place only accepts Moooooo

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Aug 01, 2007 03:10 |  #3053

theflyingkiwi wrote in post #3648193 (external link)
sorry this place only accepts Moooooo
[GIFS ARE NOT RENDERED IN QUOTES]

Thats moooore like it :D


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Aug 01, 2007 04:15 |  #3054

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORNING! everyone!

The weather is great, the sun is shinig, but I overslept... So I'll have to see what I'll do today as it's already a bit late to go on a hike (with the time it takes to go to starting points by train, ....)


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Aug 01, 2007 04:16 |  #3055

DDA wrote in post #3648377 (external link)
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORNING! everyone!

The weather is great, the sun is shinig, but I overslept... So I'll have to see what I'll do today as it's already a bit late to go on a hike (with the time it takes to go to starting points by train, ....)

so did you do anything exciting on your national day ?


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Aug 01, 2007 04:55 |  #3056

ibdb wrote in post #3647907 (external link)
Finished Harry Potter -- and no, I won't say a word.

I'm a Bison/Owl -- with an outside chance at Sable.

A Bowle? :lol:

IF that's the case, you can't go wrong!;)

oh, and

Mooooooooooo. . . .Kvack. . . .and a hearty Rawr to Three, y'all.




  
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Aug 01, 2007 05:27 |  #3057

wu_wei0 wrote in post #3648444 (external link)
Kvack

Now ive heard that said around here before but have no idea what it means. Hopefully my friend mr google can help me out...


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Aug 01, 2007 05:31 |  #3058

-spam- wrote in post #3648495 (external link)
Now ive heard that said around here before but have no idea what it means. Hopefully my friend mr google can help me out...

I believe it is what ducks say where Claire lives.




  
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Aug 01, 2007 05:33 |  #3059

wu_wei0 wrote in post #3648504 (external link)
I believe it is what ducks say where Claire lives.

haha, well i like that one better than the result urbandictionary.com gave me


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Aug 01, 2007 05:39 |  #3060

-spam- wrote in post #3648508 (external link)
haha, well i like that one better than the result urbandictionary.com gave me

definitely!

Did you ever see the def of Permagrin there? I think she was shocked, to say the least! :)




  
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