12-08-10 – Optimus Prime

this may be a good time to unlimber the rolleiflex. or the XD-11 with the 50mm but i never was to fond of that length.

OK, I’m confused now. If they don’t all have to be taken at the same focal length, what’re the restrictions for those of us who are primeless?

Actually, for multi-prime users, it’s going to require a lot of self control.
And honesty.

Yeah…. I’m leaning towards using stuff from the antiques, since I know they didn’t change. Everything else, I’m having to look at other shots from the same shoot to see whether or not I switched primes around. I do know I’ve got several occasions where I was armed with only the 24mm, but all of my macro-hunts, I usually carried the 24 with in case I saw something worth going wide.

Just catching up. I guess I’m okay to use shots on different expeditions, so long as they are taken when I was using just one focal length. ?

This doesn’t make much difference to me; as I don’t have a prime, the only time I go shooting as if I did is with the telescope where I haven’t a choice, and other than the obig. lunar shots, which are nice, but *yawn*, I don’t think I have one worth posting (for this contest, at least.)

I’ll have to make weekend expeditions for fresh material. If I don’t get roped into going to Tucson (again, *yawn*], I’ll plan to head up north, kill a couple birds with one stone for Winter II and Season’s Greetings, perhaps.

Take pictures with one focal length in Tuscon.

Clearly, you’ve never been to Tucson. There are nice places to photograph in the areas surrounding, but not so much within. I’d be within.

//But yes, I’ll take my camera even to Tucson, if that’s the way the wind blows (and it will blow, and hard, if I havta go.)

You’re correct in that I’ve never been to Tuscon. Or anywhere desert southwest for that matter. And a quick flickr search for tuscon reveals alot of blah, but burried within that blah appears to be a dirty, gritty city begging to be shot in black and white by someone with a keen eye.

We’ll see what I can do, if I havta do it, orionid

//but seriously, I’d rather not hafta.

///If I could get some good people shots, without getting accosted, it might be worth it. Weird people. Like in a John Waters movie. They’re everywhere down there. Capturing that would be worth the trip.

Given the right travel guides, you’d love the desert sw. It’s a much different way of looking at landscapes, big or small. The devil, in the desert, is in the details.

I think you’ve got it, QueenBee, or at least that’s the way I’m interpreting it – 3 at the same zoom, not necessarily macro, although it may be difficult to repeat the exact same zoom on a P&S if you deviate from the default (or min/max) and turn it on and off for different locations/times.

If your macro is fixed focal length (or you keep it at the same focal length for all 3 shots), I think you’re good to use your macro, Mopsy.