the photo wheel companion

have just the 1.4 but i never use it wider than f2. i'm moving towards a 35 & 85 or 35 & 100 pair which i feel will cover a better range than 50 & something.

i've owned a few 1.4 lenses and even a 1.2 lens at one point but i never used them at 1.4; i think they're good if you fetishize bokeh or you really do find yourself shooting in low light situations a lot. often times the optics are /worse/ than a 1.8 or 2.0 lens since wide aperture lenses require compromises in the lens design.

like i think the 50 1.8 outperforms the 1.4 and the 1.2 throughout 2-4 or 2-5.6, though it evens out by the time you get to smaller apertures? could be wrong

Yeah, the 50/1.8 is really good and it's hard to justify the extra cost of the 1.4 beyond build and silent focusing. I don't think there's much difference in image quality.

85/1.8 gets rave notices. I've borrowed the 100/2.0 before and that's marvellously sharp. The non-L primes are the best value Canons, I think. I love my 28/1.8 but I've always used it on a crop-sensor, so it's basically a normal lens. It would be a very different thing on a FF.

love that shot by micah

rent is that in the taklamakan

thanks. dat broken shutter

yeah micah love that x 2

thanks not_goodwin...the camels were in the sahara, in morocco, last summer

i love how the dog just blends into the sidewalk

My fuzzy ball pic = third ever upload to Flickr, March 2005. Crazy days.

where is that ringed concrete ball?

it was outside pyongyang, on the way in from the airport

Bloody hell rent.

ha thanks, that pic was 99% getting up early and standing in the right place, though. if you google bagan, myanmar there's a million similar shots. amazing spot.

What a sequence!

Yeah Rent, that pic is marvellous!

thanks!

I was waiting for that Mr Jones.

I took that photo 21 years ago!

disclaimer: my photo might not seem to make any logical sense, but way back toward the edge of the cliff are the sawed off wicker man feet

micah, is that some kind of pinhole camera? or a lomo panoramic

yeah it's both, their wide pinhole camera. it really burns through film you know

hah, how many shots per 36?

it's medium format so 6, or 7 if you start early and finish late.

ah. i have a fuji 6x9 that gets 8 shots per 120

jelly. a med format rangefinder is something i've wanted for a while but i don't know if it will happen now.

LL i like your photo

why thank you
rip wicker man legs -- now it's just tiny stumps :(

everybody put your beach photos away, now

last three look like they're taken from a stop-motion film about nature reclaiming the planet from a dead civilisation

And now the planet is inhabited by giants!

one cool thing is how the photowheel also works in reverse

ledge that frisbee blowing my mind

If anybody has a UFO photo for real, now's the time

It's been nearly a month... Kids are on the laptop right now, so I can't contribute but someone should!

I was getting paranoid, someone do as Mr Jones has requested.

ledge that is v. v. perfect imo

! v kind