06-25-2010, 04:08 PM
[quote name='Pinhole' date='25 June 2010 - 05:56 PM' timestamp='1277481380' post='695']
Just a small addition to what you're written: I was taught photography by a local man when I was kid, and I got started with a Russian 'Cosmic 35', fixed lens job. The books he gave me featured the most amazing photos I'd seen, shot largely by people using Leicas and Hasselblads, fixed lenses, no auto-focus etc.
If you know how to do it, you can shoot most subjects with most DSLR cameras/lenses these days, so I would disagree that this camera is better for X, and that lens is better for Y - it's more about how you use it.
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I do not agree entirely: yes, you can do almost anything with any camera, if you know how to use it, but some cameras (and lenses) make it easier for you to shoot specific subjects, especially if they are designed to do so. We wouldn't have had different type of camera and different formats of film and ancillary equipment in the analog days either if that wasn't the case.
Of course, you can MF any subject, but it is a lot easier to have a helping hand from Ai Servo AF with a bunch of AF and AF assist points than just trying to MF a waterskier traveling at 40 mph or more and moving in all directions when you know he is going to jump somewhere between here and 100 m further down the track, and trying to catch that jump... <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> Hey, it is bad enough with Ai Servo and a fast AF lens.
I did manage with my 5D II at dusk, but oh boy, was that hard <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />.
Kind regards, Wim
Just a small addition to what you're written: I was taught photography by a local man when I was kid, and I got started with a Russian 'Cosmic 35', fixed lens job. The books he gave me featured the most amazing photos I'd seen, shot largely by people using Leicas and Hasselblads, fixed lenses, no auto-focus etc.
If you know how to do it, you can shoot most subjects with most DSLR cameras/lenses these days, so I would disagree that this camera is better for X, and that lens is better for Y - it's more about how you use it.
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I do not agree entirely: yes, you can do almost anything with any camera, if you know how to use it, but some cameras (and lenses) make it easier for you to shoot specific subjects, especially if they are designed to do so. We wouldn't have had different type of camera and different formats of film and ancillary equipment in the analog days either if that wasn't the case.
Of course, you can MF any subject, but it is a lot easier to have a helping hand from Ai Servo AF with a bunch of AF and AF assist points than just trying to MF a waterskier traveling at 40 mph or more and moving in all directions when you know he is going to jump somewhere between here and 100 m further down the track, and trying to catch that jump... <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> Hey, it is bad enough with Ai Servo and a fast AF lens.I did manage with my 5D II at dusk, but oh boy, was that hard <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />. Kind regards, Wim
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