jim_rais Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 Get relaxed and just shoot photos ... with <B>any</B> photographic tool. I'm happy with either using Carl Zeiss optics on EOS 300D or the prosumer all-in-one Konica-Minolta A2 and take the choice based on the situation. So, here's an updated <A HREF="http://www.jimraisphotography.com/" TARGET="_blank">A personal journey through the viewfinder</A> for those who still haven't make up their minds which <I>tool</I> way to go yet. Just click "updated Sept 16, 2005" on the lower copyright bar. Enjoy your photography.<P> <LI><A HREF="http://www.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=332699">Jim Rais</A></LI><P> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjavery Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 Very nice work, Jim! And your website is fantastic. You're absolutely right, it's all about the photos. That's what I enjoy about photography. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_rais Posted September 16, 2005 Author Share Posted September 16, 2005 <B>For TJ</B> - Thanks for your nice comment on the website and photos. I spent a couple of hours myself enjoying and being fascinated by each and single photowork of your portfolio. Wow! There are so much beauty in them. Each photo has its own story and its own soul, should I say without exaggeration. Pure joy to look at them, especially they are sustained by the right digital techniques here and there when needed (which you've clearly mastered). Also the technical datas and your personal story on each photo are very strong stimulating factors to live in every picture you took. Just like the frames of the pictures in the living room which give the feeling of finishing touch until the last detail. Very neat, indeed.<P> So, it's really not your fault that my wife complained that the living room (where the computer stands) was too dark for her to do anything for a couple of hours as I shut the sunrays out of that room in order to enjoy fully of your photographs on the computer's screen :)<P> Keep up the good work, TJ, and I sure will follow your portfolio now and then. It's already been kept at the favourites file of the browser.<P> <LI><A HREF="http://www.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=332699">Jim Rais</A></LI><P> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjavery Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 Thanks, Jim! I appreciate your commments. best, TJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew robertson Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 You're not happy with Canon optics on a Canon camera? You sound a little uptight to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_rais Posted September 18, 2005 Author Share Posted September 18, 2005 I've never been a Canon-user until recently. Coming straight from Pentax equipment, I recalled a teacher at our photography school had once said that he used a Contax camera purely because of the quality of Zeiss lenses. The results were astonishing and so I decided to step over from Pentax to Contax/Zeiss combination some 13 years ago. It was a time when the magic word was "Nikon", but since I've never been a follower only to just belong to a flock while it's not purposeful for me, I've never regretted the decision to go Contax/Zeiss way. Even the compact "p&s" Contax TVS, which I frequently used for assignments of the University Newspaper gave so much astonishments to the editorial people back then. Not only the results of the (B&W) prints of my own darkroom as well as the hilarious <I>how dare you to use that tiny amateur toy while professionals have to maintain their status with the compulsory big, black and heavy brick</I> look.<P> So, it's not a matter if I'm happy or not with Canon glasses, but I simply don't see any reason to step off of my heavily invested Zeiss lenses (man, how were they expensive for a poor photographer like me) as they are still pleasing me. I would have used any camera brand if they accept Zeiss optics, but the reality is that Canon is the only one brand up to now to accept the Zeiss via an adapter and I have to feel happy with this solution. Better than donating all the Zeiss glasses to some museum. I know it's some kind of a fashion to have Zeiss lenses nowadays, but I've been there long before it becomes mere a fashion.<P> Sounds a bit uptight? In what way? Could it be because English is not my native tongue?<P> <LI><A HREF="http://www.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=332699">Jim Rais</A></LI><P> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypoo Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Is Carl Zeiss still alive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_rais Posted September 19, 2005 Author Share Posted September 19, 2005 The <B>person</B> Carl Zeiss himself has been officially pronounced dead on Dec. 3, 1888 but his <A HREF="http://www.zeissikon.com/lenses.htm" TARGET="_blank">legacy</A> is still alive.<P> <LI><A HREF="http://www.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=332699">Jim Rais</A></LI><P> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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