{"id":480,"date":"2009-02-16T23:33:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T06:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=480"},"modified":"2011-08-04T14:46:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T18:46:18","slug":"piccaring-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"Piccaring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went photographing with Gopi today, and had a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>I got to try out Gopi&#8217;s 8mm lens, with 180 degree view:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images\/021609place.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also, it was rainy:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images\/021609water.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images\/021609wet.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also shot a lot of photos with Gopi&#8217;s 50mm f\/1.4 lens. I&#8217;d forgotten how much I loved the lower fstops on my film cameras because of the amazing depth of field you get, and the ability to handhold after sunset or indoors (such as the cluster):<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images\/021609gopi.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images\/021609gopi2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images\/021609gopi3.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images\/021609gopi4.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images\/021609gopi5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have to end with this:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images\/021609raphael.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a result, I will <strike>likely<\/strike> almost certainly be buying myself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Nikon-50mm-Nikkor-Digital-Cameras\/dp\/B00005LEN4\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=electronics&#038;qid=1234809563&#038;sr=8-1\">this lens<\/a> (50mm f\/1.8, ~75mm equivalent for digital) later this week. My normal-use lens (18-200mm) only stops down to f\/3.5 at the 18mm end and f\/6.2 at the 200mm end (and my 100-300mm isn&#8217;t much better), which is generally worthless for depth of field. Also, this would be an ideal portraiture lens, and I tend to prefer shooting portraits. Meh.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;I can afford to spend $130, right?<br \/>\n&#8230;I still feel bad spending it though. Blahhh.<br \/>\n&#8230;I&#8217;m also tempted by the 50mm f\/1.4 but I don&#8217;t think the extra stop down is worth an extra ~$250.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went photographing with Gopi today, and had a lot of fun. I got to try out Gopi&#8217;s 8mm lens, with 180 degree view: Also, it was rainy: I also shot a lot of photos with Gopi&#8217;s 50mm f\/1.4 lens. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=480\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}