Man, can I relate. That cooked-brains factor. Happened to me last month
shooting a ceremony outdoors in the triple-digit heat. Just set the iS-2 to
"dumb" and the pix came out perfect. The OM-1 pix with 21/3.5 were less so.
I tried using the hyperfocal setting at minimum aperture for no-focus
shooting, but diffraction made most of the pix kinda soft. Bokeh was
irrelevant since both cameras were loaded with 800 print film, Kodak and
Fuji, both of which did fine under Texas' nuclear sun.
Gotta admit, there are times when automation is my friend ... my friend ...
my friend ... my friend ...
Lex
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From: Ken Norton <image66@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] Will I ever learn?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 08:42:17 -0700 (PDT)
For this wedding the 35-180 zoom of the IS-3 was
wonderful and I used the lens extensively at either
the 35mm point or in the 150-180mm range....Something that worked against
me yesterday was the
"sun-bake-factor" where your braincells are cooked
beyond the ability to think your way through proper
exposures. I ended up putting the IS-3 on program
mode with fill-flash turned on (using built in flash)
and just guestimating the exposure with the Mamiya....This was the first
wedding I've photographed where I
felt that I was completely out-of-sync with exposures.
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