Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote: > But there are two really important points here, Doug - > 1. You produce work to SELL; Not really. I produce work for myself; that the photos sell is more of a happy accident than deliberate. My marketing effort consists of putting the photos on my website. That's about it. > 2. You replaced one of your primary lenses with an improved version of > that lens. For wildlife photos 280mm is very short, and is considered marginally usable by the vast majority of wildlife photographers. To make it useful I have to get MUCH closer to the animals than they ordinarily allow - which takes time, patience, a reasonable knowledge of their body language, and some means of communicating my intentions. Spending more on a marginally usable lens than on any other piece of equipment is absurd, but when I saw the image quality the lens could produce - sharpness, bokeh, color saturation - I made the extra effort to create the situations where I could use it. There are 5 rolls of slides to pick up at the lab, most of 'em exposed with the 280 - watch this space :-) Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com