The Forgotten Lens. Why You Should Ditch That Zoom for a Classic 50mm "Normal" Lens Note: this article was originally written for film shooters and is also applicable to "full frame" digital camera owners. For thoughts on lens choice for small-format digital SLRs, see "What If I Have A Digital SLR? ", below. So there you are, the proud parents of a beautiful new baby, and you can hardly contain your excitement as you unwrap that new 35mm camera kit you bought to document your child's early years.
Although you've had a point-and-shoot camera for a while, you wanted to step up to a "real" camera for the kind of quality pictures you see in the popular media and in the camera maker's brochures. You fumble a little as you mount the 28-80 zoom lens and load the film, but pretty soon everything is ready to go. As your spouse proudly holds the baby up you raise the camera to your eye. What's wrong with this picture? Zoom Nation Leica M6 TTL .58x, 50mm f/2.0 Summicron-M, Kodak T-400CN, 1/125, f/2.5 < Greater speed. Photography Forum & Digital Photography Forum. Untitled. Home Donate New Search Gallery How-To Books Links Workshops About Contact Is Film Going Away?
© 2010 KenRockwell.com. All rights reserved. French Translation It helps me keep adding to this site when you use these links to Adorama, Amazon, B&H, Calumet, Ritz, J&R and eBay to get your goodies. Thanks! Ken. August 2010 (originally 2005) More Nikon Reviews Canon Leica Pentax Film is not going away. Film manufacturers have been discontinuing individual films since the early 1900s in the normal course of commercial development, as new films come to replace them. When radio became popular in the 1920s, people knew that newspapers would evaporate. When FM radio became common in the 1960s, everyone knew AM radio was doomed. When TV became practical in the 1950s, everyone knew movie theatres were history, too. CDs were supposed to kill LPs in the 1980s, yet we still have newly released LPs.
The Internet was supposed to kill TV in the late 1990s, but we still have free over-the-air TV. Super 8? Ken. National-geographic-pictures-dragonfly-close-up1.jpeg (JPEG Image, 1024×768 pixels) John Lowings - Landscape Photographer.
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