12-08-10 – Optimus Prime

Do I macro with the Darlot, or go prime-focus with the telescope ( I’m thinking terrestrial perhaps)? Decisions, decisions…And it’s not a theme from which you can readily draw from the archives (I suppose you could look at the exif data).

I can actually follow the rules and not worry about the staying in one focal length now that I bought a prime lens from the pawn shop. I will say a prime lens makes you think way more to get the shot you want.or at least move more.

So if you’re submitting 3 shots, do they all need to be taken with the same lens or focal length?

That wasn’t my intention, but please see this note from the original thread:

Well, I didn’t want to suggest a bunch of rules that would wind up being completely unenforceable, but the idea was to encourage people to go out and shoot with only a single focal length available to them, not “images that happened to be shot with a prime lens”, if that makes sense.

I was wondering about cropping on this one; it seems to me that cropping (esp at fark resolution/filesizes) is a form of ‘zoom’ in this case, and with the point being a prime lens (or equiv.) contest, that might want to be discouraged. But then I figured who would know for sure and who’d wanna enforce it and it all became a clusterfark in my head and it’s had been a long night at work and now I’m home and tired and all I want to do is have a couple of beers and scour the forums for a few run-on sentences to write, so nevermind.

//but I’m planning on ‘no cropping’ as a personal rule.

I used a zoom for the first time in months for thanksgiving.

We can use photos taken with different primes on different occasions, right?
For example, I have a few that I took a couple of months ago when went armed only with my 135mm.
Today I was out with only a 50mm, and if I get the film developed in time, I have some I may want to use. That would be alright, no?
The way I understand it, they don’t all have to be taken with the same prime, only that they are taken at a time when you are shooting only with that prime.
Is this correct?

the way i read it, it’s about the focal length. Read that way it would have to be 3 shots with the same prime – either 135, or 50mm

/adds to confusion

The way I understand it, they don’t all have to be taken with the same prime, only that they are taken at a time when you are shooting only with that prime.
Is this correct?

That’s right.