Re: Just looking for camera

In article <gbt7k0$20$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
jmeehan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


For some reason most people never even think of wide angle. They
only think telephoto, so that is what the manufacturer's sell.

When I was in the business it was always the same. People would
complain that their vacation photos they had of landscapes were never
nearly as good as they remembered, even when they used that powerful
telephoto they bought for the trip. Then I had to explain that the
telephoto was the problem. When they saw that mountain or lake, they
saw the whole thing, not just a little piece of it.

The reason they are unsatisfied with the landscape shots is that
they used a wide angle. The resolution was inadequate for the
picture to contain all that they saw.

To get the resolution they needed a telephoto. To get enough view
they needed a wide angle. The only solution is Hasselblad or Leaf,
or, vastly cheaper and easy as pie since it is a distant landscape,
a telephoto and panorama stitching software. Works great.


I never was good at landscapes. I probably shold be less concerned
about resolution. My Canon A20 2 MP is more pixels than I usually need.
I do shoot with the A20 with the 24 mm lens adaptor, but it has a lot
of distortion. You really need a 24 for indoor shots. I used to use my Pentax
28 mm often, and I had it because I could not afford something wider, except
my used 18 mm Pentax fisheye.

greg
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