It was a good trip as I posted elsewhere. The flash on this trip is for
fill light on the sun filled beach. Otherwise I'd choose to shed a
couple pounds and up the ISO dial same as you.
Chuck
Moose wrote:
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>>Thanks, Moose. A most interesting result! I haven't had a chance to do
>>much of anything with mine yet.
>
> Yeah, I'm excited. To have better performance cropped to 1.6 than the
> 1.6x camera I've been happily using is what I hoped for, but not what I
> expected. You could sure never do that with film and get anything like
> these results.
>
>>However, it's going to the beach today.
>>Hope I don't drop it in the water or the sand. What a handful though.
>>Fitted out with the 28-80 Tokina 2.8 and a Sunpak 522 handle mount
>>flash the whole thing weighs 6.4 pounds.
>
> Too heavy for me. I really very seldom use flash and generally prefer to
> use iso vs. ozs. and grs. I already have the EF 24-85/3.5-4.5 that I
> bought for the 300D. At only 2/3 to 4/3 stop slower, I'm not troubled,
> what with the amazing high iso performance of the 5D. And say what you
> will about other aspects of their lenses, the full time manually
> adjustable USM is really nice. My other brand lenses focus fast enough
> and are fine, but aren't as quick and quiet as USM and have to be
> switched to MF separately for fine tuning. It's nice to here that
> Tokina's solution to that works well in its latest incarnation.
>
> 5D with 24-85 is 2# 14oz. (1,305g) and with the Tamron 28-300, 3#
> (1,361g). I'm not carrying around any 6 plus pounds unless it goes to at
> least 500 mm. :-)
>
> With 19-35, 24-85, 50/1.8, 28-300 and all the OM glass for specialty
> use, I'm not looking for lenses right now.
>
> Hope it's a good trip to the beach!
>
> Moose
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