The Obsession 6x17 should be good for trees !
...Wayne
> Brian Swale <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> My web-site that I hoped to provide me with sales of my photographic
> skills,
> whatever they may be, has not resulted in any response from the public.
>
> I have not given up on that side of things nor on the possibility of
> making
> sales of photographic prints. I will continue to work on that, but
> acknowledge
> that very few good galleries here will agree to display photographs of
> any
> kind, and this gives problems. The total population of NZ is a little
> over 4
> million, so one must aim for niche markets. Overseas buyers are not
> interested in images produced and marketed from here. Despite using all
> the recommended techniques to make my site available and seen by search
> engines, the traffic volume to my site is pathetic.
>
> I am looking seriously at publishing books about other topics that
> interest
> me; various aspects of NZ botany, and also trees, in order to show-case
> my
> photography, and to give me worthwhile interests in my life. A now-
> deceased professor from my old university in Wellington, Prof.
> J.T.Salmon,
> published quite a few books on such topics (botany). He passed away
> eleven years ago at he age of 89 years.
>
> I have just received a 2nd hand "as new" two-volume set of one major
> opus
> of his, "The Trees of New Zealand, Exotic Trees" The Conifers, and The
> Broadleaves, He photographed 350 species of broadleaf trees and 120
> species of conifer.
>
> Most of the photographs are stunning (and the books look as though they
> have never been opened before I did it).
>
> His gear was a Minolta Dynax with Sigma AF Macro, 50mm f/2.8, and a
> Tamron AF 28-200 mm. and he used Fujicolor Super HGV film for colour
> prints, and sometimes Kodachrome 35 mm transparency film.
>
> I've come to the conclusion, especially with the unreliability of OM
> digital
> autofocus in cameras available to me, that I should mostly use film (and
>
> probably print film) in my OM series cameras for these projects,
> especially
> the OM4Ti and the OM 2000, both of which provide means to counteract the
>
> vibration problems inherent in the use of film Zuiko lenses which we all
> know
> about now. And for some close-ups, manual Zuiko lenses on digital.
>
> I also have in mind the stunning photographs taken with a Pen F camera
> and published by my old friend, John Johns, The main book I have in mind
>
> is his work on the Native Orchids of New Zealand.
>
> None of my digital close-ups, or even some digital distance shots, can
> match what Prof Salmon achieved with his gear.
>
> I know I have been down this road to some degree previously in this
> forum,
> but anyway, this is where my thoughts are this morning. I know that some
> of
> you will not agree with my conclusions, but I can not ignore the
> evidence in
> front of me, as I consider my options.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Brian Swale.
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...Wayne
Wayne Harridge
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