Not entirely true, Mike.
I saw a documentry featuring turdcams, and although the elephants did spot
a couple of them, most survived. One of the best wild-life docs I've seen.
John
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:22:05 -0000, mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
From: Chris Stoddart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2005/11/11 Fri AM 09:39:01 GMT
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: Re: SV: Any reason not to buy a *istD?
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, mike wilson wrote:
>> close to where Brandt presumably was with the camera. The the
fall-off and
>> vignetting would then mimic how your eyes would have seen the real
thing.
>> I also suspect this is not an effect you could duplicate easily with
a
>> 600mm lens?
>
> The Pentax 600/4 has noticeable falloff, wide open.
No, I meant working in combination with the perspective of the picture.
Presumably if he's close with a 6x7 he's shooting with something in the
'standard lens' sort of focal length? The falloff shown in some of those
pictures is obviously done post-processing, but then when combined with
a
standard lens perspective and shown at effectively life-size, you'd in
some ways mimic the feeling of reality? In contrast, a picture taken
standing XXX metres away with a 600mm lens you wouldn't have the same
effect because of compression? You'd just end up with what some here
might already have called a nice picture ruined by softening and falloff
:-)
Got you. I thought you were referring specifically to the falloff. I
need to learn to read more carefully.
Of course that could be utter bollox (tm). Personally, standing anything
like that close to a cow elephant with her calf and firing a 6x7... no
thanks!
I think there is a site somewhere detailing a chap's efforts to picture
heffalumps close up by disguising his wunderkam as a turd. Of course,
they were far too smart to fall for that and did a Mexican hat dance all
over his gear. Too sad.
m
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