I wish I could afford an OM-4Ti, heh.
Bryan Pilati
OM-2n; IS-3
Va-USA
Disclaimer: I'm always joking
unless I should be serious.
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. Jackson" <jackson.robert.r@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] ( OM ) standard lightweight setup
> I've gotta say that I'm amazed at the diversity of people here on the
> list, just among those who've taken the time to respond to this. There
> are people who carry two or three superfast wide-angle primes, people
> who carry a favorite giganto-zoom, someone who carries a couple of
> compact lenses in his coat pocket, people who just carry a 50...there's
> a real assortment of photographers here. I was kind of expecting some
> consensus with a slight variation. "Oh, of course we all carry such and
> such because the variable of the cosign of the internodal convergence
> overlaps at the second function of the whoosits." It's really cool to
> see that there's so much variety here, though. Among the folks who
> operate at Manhattan Project levels there are a lot of people with very
> quirky and personal reasons for carrying what they do.
>
> For myself, I lean towards wide angle lenses a lot because I tend to
> feel that the narrow angle of incidence in long focal lengths can feel
> really claustrophobic. I start to feel like it's crossing the line from
> photography into surveillance above 135mm a lot of the time. Then
> again, I'm not really a photographer, I'm just a guy who likes to take
> pictures.
>
> -Rob
>
> On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 02:11 PM, Brian Swale wrote:
>
> > But I must say I am puzzled about so many people preferring a wide
> > angle
> > as a standard lens. Even as wide as 21 or 24mm.
> >
> > I tend to use the other end of the focal length scale.
>
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