Re: [Largeformat] Re: Photo 101 - Class 25 - Incident meters

[Verna Knapp <vernak@navicom.com>]

> At the most recent NASCAR race at Darlington, I'd guess 25-30% of all the
> pros there were shooting digitally.  They love it.  Their editors and
> writers love it.  Me, I still prefer my mechanical, manual everything relic.
> And my stuff still looks better than many of theirs.  Let 'em snicker .....

> 
> jp
> 


One of those pros was pointing out to me some of the limitations of one
of those pro level digital cameras. Seems the slowest "film speed" is
ISO400. Pretty hard to get a good motion blur when you want it. Race
horse? Waterfalls? Frozen in the sunlight. And the normal lens is down
around 20mm. As a result, everything is sharp, front to back, whether
you want it that way or not. He was a bit concerned about the lens flare
likelihood on all that glass sticking forward beyond the hood, too. This
was an almost $4000 camera.

Verna