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<p>A matter of general curiosity... Which eye do you use in the viewfinder? Does it match your dominant hand?</p>

<p>Personally, I am a left eye viewfinder type, but am right-handed in the rest of my life...</p>

<p>Climbing The Corporate Ladder</p>

<p>My youngest daughter playing at a hamburger chain's play area after having attended her first 1/2 day of school...</p><div></div>

<p>I love the first 'Free Samples' picture... what on earth is she looking at? Perhaps a career in some other line of work might be better for her...</p>

<p>The ponies are simply brilliant! Excellent catch!</p>

<p>Printer error? Mini labs and the corner drug store are not always as accurate as they could be...</p>

<p>Interestingly, if you do a google image search on Lady Gaga, the first 20 pages of images are all ''fashion magazine" stereotypical. She obviously has a great team working to control her oh so carefully created image. Almost no paparazzi/from the hip street shots at all.</p>

<p>Her published photographs are definitely not my style, but they are masterpieces of their sort - like food, she is at least 50% consumed visually. She is SUPPOSED to look like the images in magazines - that is her audience - people who live and die by those things.</p>

<p>Great photography of its sort, in other words. </p>

<p>Jeff: I agree about Mule Variations... fabulous album too!</p>

<p>In my camera bag:<br /><br />Olympus E-410 camera<br />Olympus E-620 camera<br /><br />Olympus HLD-5 battery grip<br /><br />Olympus Zuiko 28mm f 2.0<br />Olympus Zuiko 35mm f 2.8<br />Olympus Zuiko 50mm f 1.4<br />Olympus Zuiko 50mm f 1.8 (three of these)<br />Olympus Zuiko 55mm f 1.2<br />Olympus Zuiko 75-150mm f 4<br />Olympus Zuiko 135mm f 3.5<br />OM mount Tokina 135mm f 2.8<br />M42 Carsen 135mm f 3.2<br />Olympus 14-42mm f 3.5-5.6 'kit lens'<br />Olympus 40-150mm f 3.5-4.5 'kit lens'<br />Lens Baby 2.0<br /><br />Not in my bag, but stored carefully for possible future use:<br /><br />Praktica L & assorted M42 lenses<br />Nikon FE & assorted lenses<br />Olympus OM2<br />Voightlander Bessa II<br>

Various flash units, many tripods, rolls of tape, several stupidly large hard disks and most important of all, as much of an open mind as I can muster on any given day.<br>

Oh, and parking change - always have to have a handful of that around...</p>

 

<p>Colour</p><div></div>

<p>Toccata</p>

<p>Seen at Våtsjön, Sandbäcken, Karlskoga, Sweden at a rest stop on the E18 highway.</p><div></div>

<p>Great article/post!</p>

<p>I have been working with photography for almost 40 years and every time I look at one of my images and think, 'Gee that's good', I look up at the first photo I ever took with an SLR (I was 12 years-old) and think, 'But that's better.'</p>

<p>That first picture had it all, perfect exposure, stunning contrast and bokeh, spot-on composition... And I took it with a Praktica L, using a Carsen 135mm lens and a Sekonic hand-held light meter. 40 years and I have yet to better that first, blind luck picture... maybe one day.</p>

<p>In the mean time, I keep working and practicing and experimenting in the hope...</p>

<p>Thanks Vick... I have been doing the same for many years, I just got to worrying about all that plastic...</p>

<p>Deirdre... I never thought of that! I actually have a couple of bean bags around that I use in churches and other places that have opinions about tripods. A good idea - I will install one on the 'camera shelf' immediately.</p>

<p>Thanks to you both (I love this forum).</p>

<p>I was laying it on its back, but don't want to scratch the screen...</p>

<p>I was hoping someone would say it should be fine... thanks Steven F!</p>

<p>I recently started using the HLD-5 vertical grip with my E-620 and I love the extra stability it offers when shooting vertically. However, I am also a dedicated 'heritage lens' guy and the weight of many of these old optics means that the camera will not stand up straight when you set it down - it leans forward so the weight of the camera rests on the front edge of the HLD-5 and the bottom point of the lens.</p>

<p>Will this ultimately have a negative effect on the lens collar on the camera do you think? These digital bodies were not likely designed with these steel monsters in mind... my OMZ 55mm f 1.2 weighs almost more than the camera...</p>

<p>A little late in posting, but hey, better late than never right?</p>

<p>'Reserved seating'<br>

Seen at Järnboås, Sweden, August 8, 2010<br>

The sign says: Reserved for dogs</p><div></div>

<p>John has covered just about every base, but I would add that manual focusing on my old 410 and my newer 620 is not only possible, but quite do-able with a little practice. I use legacy lenses almost exclusively - wide angle requires some pretty exotic old zuikos or other heritage glass, so newer digital zooms are often easier to find.</p>

<p>I like the imperfections and quirks of the old lenses, their 'life', as opposed to the clinical exactitude of the newer optics, but I would certainly use the new digital optics for paid jobs requiring their particular abilities... it is about what you need your camera to do and personal comfort.</p>

<p>The enormous viewfinder on the old OM system cameras cannot be found on the new Olympus cameras, but the new cameras are perfectly capable of making the old lenses shine once again, or, perhaps that should be the other way around...</p>

<p>One final, if slightly heretical observation, Your old lenses will work pretty well on Canon full frame cameras... more like they were designed to work, with some limitations of course... lens technology has advanced since the 1970s.</p>

<p>My best advice, pick up a 410/420 or E-600/620 and give them a whirl.</p>

<p>Motorcycles eh?</p>

<p>'Ride'</p>

<p>Seen in Örebro, Sweden, June 23, 2010.</p><div></div>

<p>All of the photos submitted are just great and it is exciting to see so many! Thanks to <a href="../photodb/user?user_id=127625">Sanford Gerald </a> for his awareness raising discussion thread! <a href="../photodb/user?user_id=127625"><br /></a></p>

<p>She Weeps</p>

<p>Seen in Karlskoga, Sweden's forest cemetery, July 21, 2010</p><div></div>

<p>Summer in the city 3 (Örebro, Sweden)</p><div></div>

<p>Lens babies are fun.</p>

<p>That is really all they are about...</p><div></div>

<p>The second line should read: "...very few people..."</p>

<p>Just noticed <a href="../casual-conversations-forum/00Wqvf">this thread</a> on the Casual Photo Conversations forum originally posted by <a href="../photodb/user?user_id=127625">Sanford Gerald.</a></p>

<p>He makes the observation that very people respond to the POTW threads on this forum and wonders why... good question!</p>

<p>Any opinions about why more people don't post images?</p>

<p>I don't know about Canon lenses, but, fast is good - any good portrait lens is good.</p>

<p>Available light is your friend, a reflector, solid tripod and bags and bags of creativity.</p>

<p>Artificial light is great, if you are very, very good with it.On camera flash is a no-no.</p>

<p>There is a pretty good general article and discussion here: http://digital-photography-school.com/food-photography-techniques-and-tips</p>

<p>Boy in flight</p><div></div>

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