The Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-03-30, Page 201
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Page 20—Crossroads—March 30, 1983
Through
the
Lens
By HOLT CONFER
A winning
cornination
Everyone with even a
slight bit of interest in
their hobby or profession
looks for ways to do what-
ever they're doing better.
The store owner looks for
better ways to control in-
ventory, the golfer looks
for a club that "feels" good,
the doctor trips to find
ways to make a more accu-
rate diagnosis, the fisher-
man searches for that spe-
cial lure, and so forth.
Photographers are no
different.
Since half of what I do
professionally is take pic-
tures (in the other half, I
write stories), anything
new in picture taking is in-
teresting. If you're a regu-
lar reader, you know that I
tell you about some of the
things I get the opportunity
to use.
Some time ago I did a
column about the ava-
lanche of new products
being introduced weekly.
While everyone needs to
look at the developments
taking place in their area
of interest, you also need to
question whatever you see.
Depending on the market-
ing ability of the manufac-
turing company, you could
easily be "sold" something
that you don't really need.
When it comes to photogra
phy, I believe you have to
evaluate each new gizmo
on the shelf in relation to
the type of photography
you're doing or intend to do
— and then ask yourself
just where it migh3 fit in
and how if would pay for
itself. Would you be able to
take photographs you
couldn't take before?
Would your photography
be better than before? If
you're taking pictures for a
living, you also need to
consider just how long it
might take for a new item
to pay for itself — in other
words, how much would
you really use the item you
intend to purchase?
For some time, I've been
looking for a combination
of lenses that would work
well in the picture -taking
situations I most often en-
counter. As you might al-
ready know, my basic
equipment is Olympus. I
use Olympus, incidentally,
because it seems "right" to
me. I don't ever want to
give the impression that I
use something because it's
the best.
Professional quality pho-
tographs are possible with
any of the major names —
what really differentiates
one from the other is the
person behind the camera.
Anyway, as I started to
say, the photographic situ-
ations I encounter on most
of my assignments can be
handled very nicely with a
zoom lens (or two zoom
lenses). For years, I was
using a 35-105mm zoom
and I suppose I took thou-
sands of pictures with that
piece of equipmept, — but
it was heavy, really heavy.
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It also had a macro fea-
ture, something I personal-
ly feel most manufacturers
could leave off their zoom
lenses. In all the years I
used that lens, I can't ever
once remember using the
macro feature. Besides, the
slide ring that changed the
lens from normal to macro
mode would stick on occa-
sion and the lens wouldn't
focus sharply at some sett-
ings.
When Olympus came out
with their 35-70mm and 75-
150mm zoom lenses, I felt
they just might have that
elusive combination I'd
been looking for.
I've had those two lenses
for about a month and the
more I use them the mote 1 --
like them. The 35-70Mm
lens is constructed of 10 el-
ements in eight groups; has
a 64 degree to 34 degree
angle of view; and has an (-
stop range of 3.6 to 22. The
lens uses a 55mm filter.
The 75-150mm lens has
15 elements in 11 groups;
and angle of view from 32
degrees to 16 degrees;"and
f-stops ranging from 4 to
22. The lens accepts a
49mm filter.
Both lenses are very
sharp, and appear to give
the same type of resolution
as a fixed -focus lens. Re-
member, though, that my
evaluation of sharpness is
bred on using an 8X loupe
and -or a projector — not
ari optical bench.
As a matter of fact, I
would not hesitate to rec-
ommend a 35-70mm lens
such as this to someone
just buying their first
35mm camera. I would buy
LONG LENS—This interesting couple was parked about a quarter -mile away
when I swung the "cat" in their direction. You need Tots of room with this lens
since the minimum focusing distance is 25 feet.
this lens before buying the
standard 50mm lens, sim-
ply because you'll be able
to do so many more things
with your camera than you
could ever do with just a
50mm lens. I'm certain
you'll find that whatever
type of camera you wanes ---
choose, the manufacturer
will have something close
to a 35-70mm lens to go
with the camera body you
want.
In this business, you
can't ever stop looking for
something better, but from
l.an economic standpoint,
you do have to settle down
somewhere — and it looks
as though the Zuiko folks
have given me something I
can be happy with for some
time.
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Texas. He logs more then
800 hours a year and is on his
third plane. Trips last one
day to three weeks.
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Death of brain tissue may
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