Yes, that's why Pentax made primes of 85mm, 100mm, 120mm, 135mm,150mm, and 200mm. >From 50.mm down they made 40mm, 35mm, 30mm, 28mm, 20mm, and 15mm. Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 2:06 PM, John <johnsess...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Or change to a prime with an appropriate focal length. > > We were required to print "full frame" my first semester in school, just to > demonstrate we had not inadvertently composed an image that cropped elements > of the scene out of the image frame. > > On 8/24/2013 1:11 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: >> >> Cropping was a lot more exacting in the days before zooms. >> You didn't just zoom in or out to get your cropping right. >> You had to zoom with your feet. >> Regards, Bob S. >> >> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:53 AM, steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote: >>> >>> on 2013-08-23 21:34 Matthew Hunt wrote >>> >>>> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:26 PM, John <johnsess...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I've never heard of "get it exact in the camera" before. >>>>> >>>>> I've always heard "get it right in camera" ... not the same thing. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I sure have. There are absolutely no-crop fetishists on the >>>> Internet... and there were in the film days, too (showing the edges of >>>> the frame as "proof"). >>> >>> >>> >>> some did tremendous work within that constraint; while i'm not a purist >>> about it myself, being close to someone who was (in the 1960s), i think >>> it >>> offers a certain simplicity - first thought, best thought >>> >>> > > -- > 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. -- 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.
