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If you walk three paces without the ball touching the court, it’s traveling.

Hah! That caught me 😆

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Thanks for the info, LeicaLens.

I don’t have any old manual glass (that would be worth even messing with, anyway), so it’d have to be all new lenses for me.

I’m not much of a street/candid photography guy, but I do like amusement parks and cycle trips and I could see something like this being much better suited for those types of things. I toted my full-size dSLR, a couple of lenses and a tripod through most of Animal Kingdom and EPCOT in Disney World, much to the chagrin of my wife. (I believe her words were something like “Don’t expect me to carry any of that crap if you’re bringing it in!” 🙂 )

One major reason why I am considering getting a m4/3 is to use my manual 35mm film camera lenses. If I had to buy lenses from scratch, I probably wouldn’t bother.

The other reason is to avoid situations like you mentioned. I like using my DSLR, I like using the optical viewfinder, but sometimes it is a too much of a pain to carry around, lenses and all, especially when the primary purpose of your trip/visit/travel is NOT photography.

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Sometimes there are benefits to being married to a fellow Farktographer.

“Honey? If you’re not busy, could you go and buy me a fish?”

“Can’t you just grab something at the supermarket”

“No, they don’t have them with the heads on. I asked”.

They don’t sell whole fish at your local supermarket??

My head has officially assploded.

How can you eat the eyes, if they don’t sell the heads?

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Two people separated by how many 1000’s of miles (Phx, Fukuoka) post nearly the same comment at the same time, down to the use of the word ‘particular’.

Life’s little coinky dinks! So obviously we’re both right about the shot. 🙂

Cripes, Yes! My first Farktography simulpost!

/Off topic, but related to the Phoenix abbreviation “Phx”, the airport abbreviation for Fukuoka is “FUK”. I get some odd looks at the airport in Britain when I am going home 😯

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CauseISaidSo

The benefits are really in the platform’s portability. Image quality is the same as four-thirds (so not as good as APS-C sensors, but a lot better than your average compact).
In fact, the micro four-thirds have a better sensor than my Olympus E-520, so image quality is probably better.
One benefit I can imagine is in Street photography/candid shots. People often get leery and lairy when you point a big DSLR with bazooka lens in their direction, but are far less worried
about a wee compact. The m4/3 cameras are more like a compact, so you can get away with more.

I think some of the the lenses are a bit cheaper, considering what you get for the price. For example, panasonic’s 20mm f1.7 is about 40,000 yen ($400+ ?). Nikon’s 28mm f2.8 is cheaper at 30,000 yen, but slower and bulkier. However, there is not much good glass around for m4/3 cameras yet. Many users are clamouring for more fast primes, and pana and Oly and other lens makers may come up with the goods next year.

I am considering the platform bacause I can use my old manual focus OM and Canon FD lenses on it, with good results (better, apparently, than with standard 4/3 cameras). The m4/3 cameras have a manual focus assist, so when you start to focus manually, the back screen automatically magnifies the subject 10 times, allowing you to focus on it really sharply. Not great for sports photography and other moving targets, but okay for most other stuff. If you have old lenses, then you won’t need to buy a ton of new lenses (maybe just a pancake prime?). The wife may overlook that one…

Sony’s NEX apparently has the best image quality out of the mirrorless lineup, and the bodies are really thin. However, the lens seem bulky, and initially there were complaints about poor usability, though a firmware update seems to have fixed some of those.

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I don’t think it counts as a fish, but I particularly liked the diver photo.

Caption: “Live long…and prosper”?

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Interesting. I’m going to have to see one in person to get a feel for its size, though.

Any idea how the focal length of its lenses relate to a 35mm SLR?

For the focal length of Four-thirds and Micro four-thirds lens, double the 35mm film value. So a 50mm lens works as a 100mm on a micro four thirds camera.
The current range of lens available for micro-four thirds doesn’t include anything long and fast. However, if you have a fast manual prime you could use that with a mount converter, with pretty good results from what I have heard.
I have a Canon FD 100 f2 lens that I would love to try on a micro-four thirds (200m f2!).
However, such a combination may not get past the “no professional cameras” restriction.

Incidentally, I have been looking at getting a micro-four thirds camera, and I prefer the panasonic GF1 to the Olympus cameras (much cheaper, for one thing). However, the AF on my good four-thirds lenses won’t function on the panasonic camera, so it’s bit of a deal breaker.

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U-Man wrote:

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Are pike good eating? I have heard mixed reviews.

They are very good. You just have to learn how to cut out that extra row of bones. U-Man has learned how to do that just this summer and will agree it’s worth the effort.

Yeah. What she said. I just cooked some on a cedar plank on the grill using indirect heat. Put that on mashed potatoes with Italian seasoned tomato chucks over that….delicioso!

Now I think about it, it was the boniness that made them unpopular.
Slow-baking them like that helps soften the smaller bones, right?

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Through this contest I learned a lot of interesting things: There are salmon in the Humber River in Toronto, how to shoot in low light levels, the importance of a monopod, and how to evaluate a situation for taking pictures (instead of just snapping away when you get there).

I just saw that salmon jumping picture, read the caption, and thought, “Wow, there are salmon in the Humber now??”
Of course, I was thinking about the Humber river in East Yorkshire, which probably hasn’t seen a live salmon in 200 years…

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U-Man
Are pike good eating? I have heard mixed reviews. They used to be popular in mediaeval England, apparently, though with pretty strong sauces to hide the taste (could be due to lack of freshness).
Also, I have heard similar stories about zombie pike, though nothing quite as drastic as yours. A guy caught a pike, took it home and put it in the fridge. Later, as he was watching TV, he heard a scream from the kitchen.
His wife had been bitten by the pike as she was about to clean it.

Anyway, some b-sides.
http://flic.kr/p/8JFEpz
http://flic.kr/p/8JFEt2
http://flic.kr/p/8JFEqB

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I asked him about it and said it looked like it hadn’t caught up after the site was unavailable. He said it should update after this week’s contest starts and if it doesn’t, to let him know.

thanks for the update.

Yes, indeed. Thank you.

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[I didn’t get one glance askance. I thought there might be a problem, but apparently, the position of the library is that as long as you don’t disturb other patrons, photos are OK.

Cripes, that’s nice…and unusual.

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And FWIW, now that dremel is one of your favorite words, it should become one of your favorite tools.

Whoooah, whooah, baby steps, man, baby steps.

/and congratulations. I think 😉

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Wedding?
Congratulations!

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Actually it has to do with being lost in an aquarium as a young child but I’m sure the hentai didn’t help.

Sounds JUST like a manga story to me!

Chicka-bow…

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