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Popped in to see Sheldon yesterday and had a good chat.
Decent chap that he is, he gave me a Tokina 12-24 to try seeing I am in the market (try getting service like that on-line!).
The sky was pregnant with rain and as I didnt want to get it wet, all the shots I took so far have been within touching distance of the car!
So far, any doubt whether or not I need a wiiiiide angle lens have been banished…… I will have another whirl later and hopefully things will have cheered up a bit.
I think its a great lens, oh and from a security point of view…. he knows where I live!
Until you use a wide-angle lens like this you never know
what you were missing…it gives a really different
perpesctive on landscapes and a lot more as well.
Buy it and you wil never look back…good shot by the
way and the wide-angle is made for skys like this.Noel Browne.
Hi Des,
I bought a Canon 10-22 from a fellow camera club member
earlier this year and it’s a great focal lenght to have in the bag.I’m also delighted you called in to see Sheldon.
I hope to do the same the next time I’m in that neck of the woods.Nice pic too.
Good luck.
John.
Welcome to the world wide …………………………………………………………………………………………photographer :D
I’m glad to see you out and about using the lens Des. A couple of pointers that were given to me as good demonstrations for selling these lenses were:
Stand the camera on a tripod in the very corner of a room on a tripod, on self timer the 12mm setting and get out of the room. Make sure the camera is level and if you are using a camera mounted flash remove the lens shade. Change the camera height and reshoot (But always make sure it is level) and enjoy the distortion free panoramas.
Get a tight group of people together (your kids or the rugby scrum) in a semi-circle and get in really close. Shoot them straight on and look up and look down on them. Brings out the happy faces in them by being so close.
On the landscape as above, look for cloudy skies. Get a subject that is interesting and close to the lens and get in close to it and experiment with shooting straight on and angled upwards. By selectivly angling the camera up and down (but try to keep it horizontal) you can selectivly distort scenes to your advatage.
Good luck.
Very nice shot and sky looks like its about to burst.
Real nice of Sheldon to loan you the lens and I hope you decide to buy.
DeeIt’s posts like this that put my children at risk of going hungry:-) I knew I just wasn’t getting enough into my camera and this aptly demostrates the fact. Thanks for reminding me I’m not finished with my lens list:-(
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