Well I had a small job today, atmospheric shots indoors under mixed available light, so I needed a good set of primes as I had no idea what I was to be up against. After looking at my lens stash I again selected my FA77/1.8 and V125/2.5 in preference to my A*85/1.4 and A*135/1.8 lenses. The wide open performance of the 77 and 125 are excellent and I needed the speed. I also had my A20/2.8, FA31/1.8 and A50/1.2 and I used the lot.
At the venue I found a stair case that was out of use at the time and I had all the lenses lined up face down with hoods on and caps off for quick access. I had the leave them a couple of times and once when I came back they had all gone, I found them nearby all capped and nicely placed back in my Mini-trekker :-) I had some wide angle dramas, I could have used my A15/3.5 but I just got away with using the 20mm and backing right up, I really would like a high performance fast wide prime, pity the 14/2.8 is only a DA lens. All in all a successful shoot, it was fast but not furious, I made just over 200 shots in just under 90 minutes. I used only my *ist D saving a combination of jpg and pef files. I converted the pef files and colour corrected the two duds and wrote the lot to a CD which the clients had in their hands only a few hours later. I was constantly switching between Tungsten and Daylight WB (I only forgot to switch for a couple of images) and the ISO needed ranged from 200 to 1600 and even the 1600 shots under tungsten are pretty well balanced and nicely saturated. A few shots have areas of bad burn out but it couldn't have been avoided in the circumstances. I might pop up an image or two from the shoot as PAWs since I've been a little slack photographically over the past few weeks. 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
