Re: Party trick

2011-05-16 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2011-05-16 1:59, Boris Liberman wrote: In fact, I am imagining a Guinness book of records event whereas a very long chain of recursive photographers will be created and a simultaneous shutter release will take place accordingly. http://www.infinitecat.com :-) Similar idea, but the cats

Party trick

2011-05-15 Thread Tim Bray
It's the combination of the K-5's sensitivity and a good fast-ish portrait lens (in my case, the D-FA 100mm macro) that enables this one. The trick goes like this; you're at a bar or a meeting or whatever, not-terrible indoor light, and you shoot a portrait across the room and bring it up on the

Re: Party trick

2011-05-15 Thread Boris Liberman
On 5/16/2011 08:54, Tim Bray wrote: I'm not an equipment worshipper, but this didn't used to be possible, and now it is. Which is a good thing. -T Applying a principle of recursion, it is entirely possible that another individual will be in the same venue with their camera equipped with