Originally posted by philbaum Cygnet, could you clarify your answer. Do you have your DA-21 on a tripod or on your chest when using the cable to the shutter. I used my DA-21 once on the street to shoot our state govenor, and it was great because i could crop out what i needed. But i would like to do more street stuff and would like to learn what you are doing so as to be more discrete some times.
Thank you!
Phil
For street, I'm using the wired cable release with the K20D hanging off the strap at chest level, with a D21. As another poster mentioned, it's not quite as wide as my old 28mm on my Olympus OM1, so I'll be looking at the 15 as well. But wide lenses pre-focused you can just take the picture whenever it looks good. I keep one hand on the camera to steady it horizontally, so it looks like I'm just keeping the camera from bouncing around. Otherwise it can get pretty tilted. So I'm not looking through the viewfinder at all. Just imagining what the lens is seeing. With the wide lens on the K20D, you can crop out the parts that aren't interesting. Here's one I did the other night, it's not quite "street", it was at a restaurant counter. F4.5 at 1/60th, ISO 3200. Manual focus so I could get the cook instead of the counter. Gotta love that ISO on the K20D. It was totally dark in there to my eye, but this is what you get.