Passing the Torch
Randy| September 13, 2008 11:37 pm
My 6 yr old cousin is quite the photographer, maybe I start leaving my camera at home when attending family functions.
Faster than F/1.0 for the masses!
Randy| September 11, 2008 2:07 pmLeica is about to announce a 50mm f/0.95 prime for their M mount bodies and it will set you back a whopping $11,000 USD. This may be the fastest commercially available lens ever made. Read about it here.
Now I know $11k isn’t all that outrageous for a lens, after all serious nature/sports shooters routinely carry around 600mm f/4 glass that retails in the $8-$10k range. But we’re not talking about some exotic, 11lb, super-tele f/4 here, this is 50mm of pocket friendly f/0.95 goodness. That’s a full stop faster than your pokey 50mm f/1.4, this is handheld candlelit photos at base ISO territory. Imagine the razor thin depth of field with this lens wide open… I’m imagining eyelashes in focus/pupils are soft and blurry.
…eyeing the piggy-bank and thinking ‘where did I put that hammer?’…
Tricky, Tricky
Randy| September 9, 2008 7:24 pm
My first full day with the LensBaby. It’s trickier to use than I expected; well I take that back the operation is really simple: point, squeeze, focus and shoot. But the tricky part is getting the focus where you want it and controlling the blur. In today’s effort I didn’t get the blur and smooth as I would have liked.
I also learned something else about this lens that I’ll share in my next photo (hopefully tomorrow; if I can find the right vantage point).
