>>>>Oh, man. Now I gotta buy 12 more bodies!
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>George<<<
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>No, you gotta learn to shoot with fewer lenses. I'm doubtful that you
>take all 12 lenses along on any one shoot. Please tell me I'm right
>about that! ;-)
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>--Mike
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OH! Just the lenses I have with me? :>) OK, that cuts the number down!
To maybe only 7 more bodies!
OK, so I'm not buying any more bodies. Well, not 12 or even 7 of em anyway.
But I do usually have lots of lenses with me on a 'shoot'. And I'll have
several bodies, each loaded with a different film. I keep an OM-1
specifically for Kodak HIE Infrared film. I've taped a #29 red filter
between the film rails so viewing and metering are easy. I'll keep 100ASA
or faster chrome film in one 4T which will usually be stored attached to a
long lens. And I'll keep fine film like Velvia or KC25 in another body for
landscapes. But films like E100VS and even Provia are blurring the line
between these latter 2 applications. So, those 3 films are my staples.
Sometimes I'll load another body with B&W or color print film. But not
often.
Much of my work is done in chunks of time because I have a *%$$#^& JOB that
I have to be at 50 or more hours per week. And, in typical American
fashion, I get a paltry 3 weeks vacation . So these time chunks translate to
weekend, week-long or 2 week-long excursions, usually in my SUV, sometimes
via airplane and some rental agencies' SUV. The SUV has plenty of room for
gear. So, plenty of room for gear means plenty of gear. I usually have in
my vehicle an inventory like: a 4x5 wooden field camera w/5 lenses and 4 or
5 Oly bodies with probably 12 or so lenses from 16mm to long telephoto. If
ya got em, use em! (And it's only within the last few years that I've had a
lot of 'em to use.) They don't do me any good in the case at home if I'm
hiking in Utah. I'll also have 2 or 3 tripods and a monopod in the car.
Once I get where I thought I wanted to go, if I'm shooting near the car,
I've got a veritable glass menagerie available to me. If I day hike or do
an overnight, I'll pack my photo backpack with all or most of the 4x5 gear
plus whatever Oly gear I think might be useful to complement the limited 4x5
range (my 5 lenses equal appx: 24mm, 30mm, 45mm [by far my most used lens],
70mm and 100mm in 35mm terms.). So I may add to this: the 16 fisheye, a
long lens, a macro, a flash and some fast glass for night scenes (tough to
focus and compose a 90/8 by the light of the moon).
So, this is the way I work. It's certainly not the right way for everyone.
I don't even know if it's the best way for me! :>) I seldom have occasion
to do a specific 'type' of shoot, like a high-fashion show, or a Big Game
Safari. In those cases, I certainly would limit my gear substantially
(can't see shootin' a lion from a jeep with a wooden 4x5!) Do I ever put one
lens on a camera and go shoot? Well, yeah, but usually not for long. It so
happens that this is what we Zuiks did on our most recent 'ADITL'. We shot
any subject, but only with a 50mm lens. Go here
http://www.whitneygallery.com/Olympus2/ to see the exhibit, Mike, if you
haven't already seen it. The range of possibilities from a simple 50mm are
enormous and the results of this event shows that. The photo I ended up
getting is here: http://www.whitneygallery.com/Olympus2/html/aditl2_31.html
I do value the lesson in seeing what one lens can do. But it's a big bad
fast-moving universe out there and I don't want to be stuck with only a 50mm
lens at hand when the little green men land. I figure I'll need a telephoto
for them. Or maybe a macro, depending on how little!
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
George
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