On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:06:15AM -0400, David J Brooks wrote: > Don't feel to bad, I have been using digital cameras since 1997, and > still have trouble figuring stuff out. > > Want proof, read some of my old posts.:-)
If it was easy, then anybody could do it. > > One thing i have learned, and it cost me a lot of money to find this > out, is one camera cannot do all of what i want, so I'm a two system > shooter now. > My D1, D1H and D2h are all better for my equine work. That is not to My friend JC Dill does a lot of equine work, as you might guess from her URL: http://equinephotoart.com/ > say the K10D does not work, it does, but the other cameras do a better > job in AF and buffer, etc. My roadmap is to eventually go dual system, probably in about two years. Then again my K100, kit lens and maybe a couple more lenses, being a huge step up in many ways from my FZ50, was supposed to last me a couple of years until the performance that I really wanted was affordable. > For flash work, the D200 and SB800 flash is the one for me. > > For rural landscapes, K10D or D200, both work well. Yup, a camera is a tool, not a religion. > > Once you knwo what the limits are and work around's for them, you'll be fine. I think I pretty much hit the low light limits of the K20 last night. My monopod was in my other car, and I forgot about my little tripod in my backpack. The band was lit, and I use the term lit very loosely, by two music stand lights: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157614960930926/ -- Every medium suffers from its own particular handicap. Photography's greatest handicap is the ease with which the medium as such can be learned. As a result, too many budding neophytes learn to speak the language too long before they have anything to say." W. Connell 1949 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
