Nice shot, I like it. I should be picking up my slides this weekend to see if I got anything. It was a bit dark to be using trap focus for macros, but you never know...
I have a 70-210 f4 A series I'll loan you the next time we get together. I just measured it and it's 26 oz. and 7" long. One touch. I don't use it much since I have the behemoth 2.8 version, but it really is a nice lens. At one end (can't recall which) I thought it dark in the corners wide open, but I may be wrong on that. I think Caveman's lens site has some samples. BTW, why did you opt for the Canon, I thought you were waiting for the new Minolta 5400? Sorry for the thread drift. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Cassino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: May 29, 2003 11:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MPDML and Kodak HDC (was: Lens choices) At 10:24 PM 5/28/2003 -0400, Bill Sawyer wrote: >If you don't need autofocus, Mark, the old A 70-210 f4 might do the trick. I'll keep my eyes peeled for one - though I sold off my manual focus kit a while back. The size and weight of an f4 zoom vs an f2.8 is pretty remarkable - and if the f4 is made to be excellent wide open I'd veiw it as an excellent compromise - with a few fast primes to round out the lens selection. >BTW, did you get any keepers from the "MPDML outing?" Don't know if I'd call it a keeper, but I rather like this one: http://www.markcassino.com/temp/3trees.jpg I shot a roll of the new Kodak HDC 400 film while we were out walking (the above image is from that roll.) I actually only shot half while we were out, the rest was used for a few other shots including some portraits. The prints did not look good - lots of magenta - and my old scanner just chokes on them and kicked out files that were too green and too magenta. I usgraded to a new scanner - Canon FS4000 - jus tthis evening, and that was on of the test scans. With minimal tweaking it came out OK - I did burn in the sun spot a bit in Photoshop. So for me the verdictis still out on the HDC - though I can say fer shur that it is not Royal Gold 400 renamed. I liked Royal Gold 400 but the HDC is more like a pumped up version of Gold Max 400 than RG 400... - MCC >-----Original Message----- >From: Mark Cassino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: May 28, 2003 8:09 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Lens choices? > > > >>> These days I carry the FA 20-35 f4, FA 28-74 f4, and a Sigma 70-200 f2.8 >(I'd probably opt for a >70-200 f4 constant aperture if anyone made it.) <<< - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Kalamazoo, MI [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - Photos: http://www.markcassino.com - - - - - - - - - -
