On 8/8/2013 10:05 PM, steve harley wrote:
on 2013-08-08 7:27 Eric Weir wrote
I have an an A 50/1.7 and an A 28/2.8. It will be a trade-off between
the speed of the 50 and the wider angle of the 28. And John Sessom's
suggestion, I think I'll look to Op-Tech for my solution for carrying
the camera, in part because it will be inexpensive, in part because it
comes reasonably close what I think I need/want.
i would take both; they are small, and having both myself (well, i have
the _FA_ 28) i have to say that while i love the 50, it is simply too
narrow for some shots, especially when traveling (then again, the 50 has
practically no distortion, so you could do hand-held panoramic sets and
stitch them later)
even with both, you may still feel somewhat constrained by lack of a
true wide angle; that is what eventually led me to the DA 15; it took a
while because it's in a different price range even when a bargain; but
the DA 15/4, A 28/2.8 & A 50/1.7 together weigh only 562g!
I went to Iraq in 2004 with a PZ-1p & a brand new *ist-D, 28-200 Tameron
zoom and the two fast ATX-Pro Tokina lenses, 28-70 & 80-200. As soon as
I got to my permanent duty station, the 28-200 went on the PZ-1p and
they both went into my footlocker. There was no where to do film over
there.
The 28-70 was my workhorse. I'd have to look, but I expect more than 2/3
of my images were taken with that lens. I got to where I no problem
changing lenses while bouncing down an unpaved goat path at 60mph in the
back of an open-top HMMWV if I saw something that needed the range of
the 80-200. I just tucked whichever lens I wasn't shooting with down
inside the top of my day-pack with my spare socks, underwear & MREs.
Didn't really feel the lack of a wide angle until I got to Scotland on
my R&R and couldn't quite get Edinburgh Castle in the same frame with
the Scottish Royal Academy & Scottish National Gallery from the vantage
of the roof of Princes Mall. Hadn't yet figured out how to combine
frames for a panorama.
I bought an FAJ 18-35 at Jessops on Shadwick Place & tried again.
I had a Thinkpad R30 & a camera bag from Adorama that Herbert Keplar
from Popular Photography recommended (and might have designed for them).
It looked like the old carry-on bags that SAS Airlines used to give away
in the early 60s. The whole kit fit into the bag & you couldn't tell it
was a camera bag.
The display on my Thinkpad failed while I was in Scotland. I checked
with IBM but they had something like a 3 week waiting list & couldn't
ship it back to me in Iraq. I bought an "inexpensive" 17in flat panel
at Curry's PC World in Glasgow.
When I finally got back to the States, the problem with the Thinkpad's
display turned out to be a $0.15 inverter. With parts & labor the whole
repair was under $20.
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