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Bought my first camera last year, and recently invested in a macro lens... it's opened up a whole new world I never thought to explore. Was hiking a trail at Shenandoah National Forest earlier this fall - nothing special about this mushroom, but I loved the scene that was created when I got down on its level. 
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Nice macro of a mushroom. You exhibited 2 important things with this shot: Getting down to eye level, and blurring your background (bokeh)
Nice exposure too.
Nice exposure too.
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Sunrise, anchored in the last creek heading east, just at the western edge of the Pamlico Sound, North Carolina
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Last weekend's night sky over the western San Juan mountains. Taken from our cabin near Mancos, Colorado.
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Very cool picture!!! Not being familiar with that area, how difficult was it to have someone else take that photo of you?
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No problem at all. There were lots of people around, many speaking English.
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This was taken on a bus tour of Denali National Park. These sheep looked they were posing for a National Geographic picture
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Ok photo gurus,
I'm going to Key West for a week and need some advice on 2 lenses to bring. I take mostly landscape shots, but Key West could produce some interesting street scenes. I only want to bring 2 in order to be able to use a smaller backpack. Here's the 3 choices:
16-35mm
24-70mm
70-300mm
I see the 24-70 as a must. So I need to decide between the 16-35 and 70-300.
I'm going to Key West for a week and need some advice on 2 lenses to bring. I take mostly landscape shots, but Key West could produce some interesting street scenes. I only want to bring 2 in order to be able to use a smaller backpack. Here's the 3 choices:
16-35mm
24-70mm
70-300mm
I see the 24-70 as a must. So I need to decide between the 16-35 and 70-300.
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24-70 and 16-35. Some of my best street shots were taken with a 17-40 just hanging around my neck. Preset focus and snapped shots of people walking by.
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No one can predict the future, but this is an interesting take. If you want to skip the history of photography you can skip the first 20 minutes, the last 10-15 were the most interesting to me.
https://youtu.be/aanabyZgquU
The Past, Present & Future of Photography
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The Past, Present & Future of Photography
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DrRoy
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Ron, I am a landscape guy and for me wider is better, so I would take the 16-35. Also, I think that for street shots, the 70-300 would be too long a lot of the time. If you want to get in closer, you can crop from the 24-70.
My personal solution is to carry a 16-35 on a full frame body and an 18-200 on an APS-C body. I do not want to lose time changing lenses or let dirt into the camera.
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I have a Canon 7D Mark II (APS-C) and my "walking around" choice is a Tamron 16-300mm. I suspect that if I had a Full Frame body it would be the same. When you can expect to find a variety of distance-shots most likely taking the time to change lens means missing the shot. The quality is not as good as other Zoom lenses but is still enough to be very acceptable.
I believe there are 18-300 lenses also available.
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Ah, the joys of mirrorless cameras
I just wanted to share my legacy glass collection that I've been building over the last 9 months. I've been shooting a Sony A7RII for about that length of time, and I love the fact that I can adapt vintage glass to the camera. I also shoot a couple of modern lenses (Zeiss Batis 25 f2, Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM Lens) but I really love working with older quality glass. On many of these lenses there is a certain character to the shots produced, with some absolutely beautiful bokeh on a few. Do any of you also share this enthusiasm for vintage glass? The collection keeps growing as my research leads me to search out other older lenses. In addition, some of these can be found very inexpensively in thrift stores, when they don't know what they've got.
Here's my collection so far:
1975 Vivitar series 1 70-210mm f2.8 Macro Zoom
Canon FD 35mm SSC f2.0 (thorium glass)
Konica Hexanon AR 28mm f3.5
1969 Nikon Nikkor-O non AI 35mm f2.0
Nikon 55mm Micro Nikkor f2.8
Kiron (Lester Dine) 105mm f2.8 Macro
Pentax-M 50mm SMC f1.7
Olympus OM Zuiko 50mm MC Auto-S
Ricoh XR Rikenon 50mm f1.7
I just wanted to share my legacy glass collection that I've been building over the last 9 months. I've been shooting a Sony A7RII for about that length of time, and I love the fact that I can adapt vintage glass to the camera. I also shoot a couple of modern lenses (Zeiss Batis 25 f2, Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM Lens) but I really love working with older quality glass. On many of these lenses there is a certain character to the shots produced, with some absolutely beautiful bokeh on a few. Do any of you also share this enthusiasm for vintage glass? The collection keeps growing as my research leads me to search out other older lenses. In addition, some of these can be found very inexpensively in thrift stores, when they don't know what they've got.
Here's my collection so far:
1975 Vivitar series 1 70-210mm f2.8 Macro Zoom
Canon FD 35mm SSC f2.0 (thorium glass)
Konica Hexanon AR 28mm f3.5
1969 Nikon Nikkor-O non AI 35mm f2.0
Nikon 55mm Micro Nikkor f2.8
Kiron (Lester Dine) 105mm f2.8 Macro
Pentax-M 50mm SMC f1.7
Olympus OM Zuiko 50mm MC Auto-S
Ricoh XR Rikenon 50mm f1.7
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If you must make a choice I'd pick the 16-35 for landscape shots. The 70-300 is going to be too long almost all the time for that and street photography.
You will, of course, run into scenes where you regret not bringing it.
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If you must make a choice I'd pick the 16-35 for landscape shots. The 70-300 is going to be too long almost all the time for that and street photography.
You will, of course, run into scenes where you regret not bringing it.
Thanks all. I'll go with the 16-35. After playing around with the 70-300 yesterday, I agree that it will be too long. My initial thought was to use it to shoot sailboats at sunset - if the sailboats were too far out for the 24-70.
I'll get far more use out of the 16-35 than the 70-300 if all I need the long lens for is the rare occurrence of a sailboat at sunset at distance. And you're right Walt - I'll probably run into that or a similar situation where I wished that I had brought it. But I'm trying to lighten the load a bit.
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