I haven't heard too many story about equipment damage form the group so
far, except the one called "dropping things" I think because it's sad
and embarrassing in a way.
Working fast/moving is important to get the shot and that seems to
translate into possible damaging an OM, so I try to know the where and
how of my equipment or just slow down and take care of the OM first.
I'm sure there are some interesting stories about fumbling a camera but
these stories are sad to a Zuikohalic.
But getting the shot as they say is satisfying.
Daniel
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John A. Lind
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 9:37 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [OM] Best way to see dust in a lens?
At 01:28 AM 8/3/03, you wrote:
>Adams Mill Bridge shot w/the 18mm f/3.5 Zuiko MC is very proposal for
>such a wide lens, great job.
>What care did you have to do to achieve it if any?
>Daniel
This will seem glib, but had to climb down a steep embankment *very*
carefully. There was a lot of loose gravel and I kept slipping on it in
spite of cleated boots. I was worried some about falling with not only
an
OM-4 in my hands, but an even more expensive lens on the front of it too
.
. . and if I slide down entirely I'd end up in the water next to the
abutment.
From a more technical aspect, I was faced with too much visual clutter
too
close to the front of the bridge, including a massive power pole
supporting
an incredibly large and ugly street/security light, a prominent power
drop
line to the pole, and several of the required bright yellow load limit
signs. Tried first to shoot it with the 24mm and couldn't compose the
entire bridge without getting into the visual clutter. Even with the
18mm
I wish I could have gotten just a little farther to the right to reduce
the
convergence of the horizontal lines of the bridge front. As usual,
whoever
put up the pole and signs had no concept about how to do it to keep an
historical landmark reasonably photogenic. It was one of those
occasions I
was wishing for my chain saw to remove them, but was lucky it wasn't in
the
car or I'd have been residing in the gray-bar hotel for a while.
The hardest part was trying to hold a proper perspective of the bridge
without a tripod (had it with me, but slope too steep to use it). Took
several shots realizing the risks; this one worked OK. The 18mm works
best
with a tripod that has leveling bubbles. Even with leveling bubbles,
architectural objects are not always true vertical and/or
horizontal. Alignment with viewfinder frame edges should be checked and
tripod head adjusted if necessary. I do this by leveling the head
first,
then alternately rotating the camera right/left and up/down to check
frame
edges with subject lines, and adjust things if needed. Same thing can
be
done by hand, but with much greater difficulty holding it true. It's
very
easy to end up with slightly off-kilter lines that a viewer of the
photograph later would expect to be vertical or horizontal, and with a
lens
that wide it's very easy to end up with them off-kilter slightly.
Thanks,
-- John
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