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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
06-27-2018, 01:38 PM
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WOW.
What an Awesome and generous set of responses. I'd like to thank each and every one of you for replying. I am honestly blow straight away by the depth of knowledge being shared here.
It's pretty plain to see that you guys are passionate and committed about what you're doing here, and I've belonged to quite a few technical forums through the years (with other passions), but you guys are something else.
I guess the only way i can pay it back is to pay it forward, learn, mature in this, and then contrib myself. Also, aside from the book (Understanding Exposure), there is allot to absorb here, and so I will take all of your advice and implement/experiment.
And mostly because of the gorgeous content I'm seeing posted here, and elsewhere, and to a much lessor degree, some of the "lucky" early successes I'm having (one or two out of 50-60...HAH) and I give all the credit to the hardware at this point, because as one famous artist once said "it's easy to be good when you don't know what you're doing, not some much once you understand what you're actually doing" :). So on my journey, at least at this time, I "should" be heading into the world of close focus flowers, macro work, photos of things that rust, like old tractors/fenders on that 48 willy in your back yard, and anything industrial looking (probably wide angle perspectives) landscape for sure.
So there it is, and why I'm here, so again, thanks to ALL, and if anyone wants to chime in from here, please do so, because I'm ALL EARS :)
My very best to all of you,
BillyCoop
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
06-26-2018, 03:03 PM
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Hi all, and as this is only my second post to the forum, I'll state right up that I'm an old film camera enthusiast, who just got back into the photographic world by way of the K1mii mated with a D-FA 28-105 wr. So I am having to re-learn pretty much everything, because I dropped out in the late 90's, and even then, my capabilities were pretty basic.
Anyway, on to my point. So as a primer to get back into the great new digital age i which we find ourselves, I picked up a copy of Bryan Peterson's classic "Understanding Exposure", (great book, btw) and what has stuck me is this:
I have been shopping for lens, and I notice in allot, and i mean allot of descriptions of the lens I'm shopping, and in allot of this forum's wonderful lens database user reviews, it seems that the many folk kind of put allot of emphasis on the lens base F stop, and then speak in terms of it's capabilities from there, in what I may be totally misunderstanding, but I see terms being used like "I have to stop it down from there" in what seems like, to me, a light that paints that as being a less than good thing? To compound my confusion, after about 50-60 pages of reading into Mr. Peterson's book, he just comes right out an states that the idea of wide opens lens is kind of a misnomer, and that any good photographer knows that using small apertures is actually a good thing...I think he even comes right out and infers, get used to shooting (as an exercise) at f/22 (in fact he actually says the idea we should be shooting primarily as large as possible is a dated presumption).
So I realize fully that all things are relative, especially in terms of all the variables involved (obviously, "millions") but if I had not picked up Mr. Peterson's book, I can tell you right now that I would be chasing lens, and making purchases based on the presumption that a lens with a big ol aperture, and it's ability to capture great photos wide open, would have been a main consideration in making that purchase. So should I be putting so much weight on whether or not a lens has bigger aperture capabilities, or?
Any perspectives on this topic would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you all, and I am really looking forward to becoming a full fledged Pentax user, and learning much from this generous group.
My Best,
BillyCoop
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