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Re: [OM] ( OM ) standard lightweight setup

Subject: Re: [OM] ( OM ) standard lightweight setup
From: "Bryan Pilati" <bryan223@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 23:29:36 -0500
I wish I could afford an OM-4Ti, heh.

Bryan Pilati
OM-2n; IS-3
Va-USA
Disclaimer:  I'm always joking
unless I should be serious.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "R. Jackson" <jackson.robert.r@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] ( OM ) standard lightweight setup


> I've gotta say that I'm amazed at the diversity of people here on the 
> list, just among those who've taken the time to respond to this. There 
> are people who carry two or three superfast wide-angle primes, people 
> who carry a favorite giganto-zoom, someone who carries a couple of 
> compact lenses in his coat pocket, people who just carry a 50...there's 
> a real assortment of photographers here. I was kind of expecting some 
> consensus with a slight variation. "Oh, of course we all carry such and 
> such because the variable of the cosign of the internodal convergence 
> overlaps at the second function of the whoosits." It's really cool to 
> see that there's so much variety here, though. Among the folks who 
> operate at Manhattan Project levels there are a lot of people with very 
> quirky and personal reasons for carrying what they do.
> 
> For myself, I lean towards wide angle lenses a lot because I tend to 
> feel that the narrow angle of incidence in long focal lengths can feel 
> really claustrophobic. I start to feel like it's crossing the line from 
> photography into surveillance above 135mm a lot of the time. Then 
> again, I'm not really a photographer, I'm just a guy who likes to take 
> pictures.
> 
> -Rob
> 
> On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 02:11  PM, Brian Swale wrote:
> 
> > But I must say I am puzzled about so many people preferring a wide 
> > angle
> > as a standard lens. Even as wide as 21 or 24mm.
> >
> > I tend to use the other end of the focal length scale.
> 
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