Camera Talk

Sailor's delight?

I've received mine: very nice! Thanks for doing this Alex, and thanks for the shipping service, PF!

Robert

Happy New Year! Glad you're out and about more, and I hope there will be more to come.

Robert

I'd take one.

Robert

People slag lenses like that one all the time. Lenses absolutely matter, but so much of what goes into a portrait lies elsewhere; many many lenses are capable of good work as you proved here. Sure, you'll find a disappointing piece of glass here and there, but I've found you can do good work with ju...

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Feb 11 -- birthday of William Henry Fox Talbot
Aug 4 -- birthday of Richard Leach Maddox
Aug 30 -- birthday of Frederick Scott Archer

In the late days of film there was the "Panorama" mode in some cameras, which was nothing more than a cropped 35mm (13x36mm) but the resulting effect was pretty cool. I had a Pentax MZ7 (ZX7) which had that, I'll have to dig to find some of those pictures. Ha ha, yes, I even have a small ...

I've always enjoyed the "cinematic" point of view given by pano aspect ratios. It bugs me to do it by cropping, although that's personal and irrational -- you've got good results here at considerably less pain and expense than the alternatives. I hope you keep going with it! I still haven'...

You should definitely print it.

I wonder if there's an issue with having or not having a Flickr membership cookie and/or Flickr access settings on the file. I see both, too, but am a Flickr member so would have the various cookies associated with that.