----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Loveless" Subject: Re: Kenny makes Michael scream and not in a good way
> > > Continuing the discussion, Nick Brandt's photos of African wildlife were > taken with a Pentax 67. In his Lenswork interview, > http://www.nickbrandt.com/pdf/LensWork_Nov_05.pdf, he doesn't > specifically state which lenses are used, but he does complain a little > about losing the "soul" of an animal when it's photographed with a 500mm > lens. This is a rather unorthodox approach to shooting wildlife, but it > really kinda supports both sides of the aisle in one sense or another. Several years ago, a friend related this story to me. He was out shooting with a 4x5 field camera, which is not what one would think of as a wildlife shooter's camera. He was very quietly working away near a small waterfall at the edge of a stream with a 210mm lens (that would be like using a 43mm lens on a DSLR). A Roe deer wandered up to the stream across from him and proceeded to have a nice long drink. His lens was actually too long to get the entire animal in the picture, not that he tried, since he figured slamming a film back into the camera would have scared it away. He stood there, and enjoyed a few moments of wonder before the animal calmly wandered back into the forest. The point being, had he been using a Crown or some other LF camera with a viewfinder, he would probably have gotten a very nice shot of the deer with his 4x5 You don't necessarily need a long lens to shoot wildlife, not that a 500mm lens is particularly long on the 6x7. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
