On 30 Oct 2004 at 16:27, Sam Jost wrote: > Oh, and my first impression of the DA-14: the widest lens I ever owned, I > need to get used to the field of view to really take advantage of it. And I need > to practise metering the light according to what I want to be properly exposed - > the lens is so wide automatic metering seems underexposing too much for my > taste.
Tsk, tsk, that ain't wide, why when I was a boy we had "real" wide lenses and film and ..... Seriously you should have a lot of fun with it especially if it's the first really wide lens you've owned. It's AOV (angle of view) on the *ist D puts it into the category generally referred to as ultra or super wide, these lenses can take some getting used to. Just a few hints; make use of the extraordinary DOF provided by the lens, you can easily include pretty close foreground elements into your compositions to help balance what could otherwise be a fairly flat distant looking scape. Get down and funky and use the perspective distortion when close up to subjects. Don't be scared to experiment, I recently made a series of successful ultra-close up images by putting a short tube behind one of my favourite ultra-wide lenses. Most of all enjoy, it should be great fun tool. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
