At 09:45 06/11/98 -0800, Shawn Wright wrote:
>I finally got a Stylus Epic for my wife's birthday yesterday. Now I have to
>wait a month before I can play with it :-(
Shucks ;-(
>I also looked at the OM-2S ($300, not 260 as I thought), but found the meter
>hard to read on the side of the display. I also though there was something
>wrong with it, until I realized it was on program mode! (shutter speed would
>"stick"). How does the spot work? Is it an instantaneous reading whenever in
>manual mode?
Yes - think of it as a *very* centre weighted meter - it reads the area of
the microprism spot, approx. Each segment of the bar graph is 1/3 stop, so
you can use it to get an idea of the contrast of your subject.
>I looked at the 21/3.5 and 24/2.8. I loved both of these lenses, but the
24 is
>a SC version, and quite worn. The 21 is MC, but has a few cleaning marks
on the
>front element. If I can manage the cost, I will try for the 21 I think. Are
>there times when a 21 is too wide for landscapes?
Yes, and there are times when a 24 is too narrow :-) Were I you, I would
go for the 21. It's a terrific lens, and can give a real feeling of being
*in* the landscape. I can't do better than echo the advice in the Oly Lens
Handbook which says something like "compose the picture, and then take one
step forward". It works - that's the best bit of advice I ever read re
super wides. I have a b/w shot of Castlerigg Stone Circle, up in the Lake
District of northern England, taken with the 21. I crouched, close up to
one of the stones, to take the shot - the foreground has a group of what
seem to be huge standing stones and then there's the rest of the circle and
the surrounding hills in the background. The pic is on my living room wall.
A few years later I went back to Castlerigg, and was a bit surprised at how
*small* the stones are! So in other words, the 21 is capable of producing
some quite dramatic effects but without distortion, and it has tremendous
depth of field. I love it :-) There are two examples of it on my (so far
rather small, but I'm working on it) gallery page
http://www.nildram.co.uk/rhdesign/gallery/index.htm
"Skye Trees" and "East Lynn Woods" are both taken with the 21.
Good luck,
Richard
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