Ryan ([info]ryanbrenizer) wrote,
@ 2005-09-19 10:32:00
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And, zooming orders of magnitude ahead in talent…
Engaging in photography forums, like pretty much any kind of Net forums, is a lot like banging your head against the wall. It doesn't take much "Nikon sucks! No, Canon sucks!" repartee to make your eyes glaze over. But every once in a while something makes it all worth it. These images, from some random poster at DPReview.com, make perhaps the best wildlife series I've ever seen, all taken with a camera that most of photographers with more geek than art would consider obsolete. OK, he used some of the best lenses available today, but one of the many disturbingly wrong ideas that photo-geeks fixate on is that the camera itself is the most important element of a photo, just because it has the most specs to measure.

Anyway, seriously, look at these. Wildlife photography isn't normally my cup of tea, but these blow me away:

Africa, Chapter 1

Africa, Chapter 2

Africa, Chapter 3

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[info]edg
2005-09-19 04:24 pm UTC (link)
Holy cow, these are awesome. Thank you for sharing!

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[info]ryanbrenizer
2005-09-19 04:40 pm UTC (link)
Told ya. You're welcome.

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[info]ckirkman
2005-09-19 05:28 pm UTC (link)
Holy crap, those are amazing!

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[info]millennium_mom
2005-09-19 05:46 pm UTC (link)
I love wildlife photography. Looking at it, that is. Those are spectacular. I can't wait to show my 8yo those pictures when he gets home from school.

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[info]ryanbrenizer
2005-09-19 05:48 pm UTC (link)
It's nice to look at, but I don't think I want to drag 10-pound lenses around with me for the rest of my life. It helps not be despondent over how amazing this guy is that he's working in a field I'm not going into. ;-)

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[info]mysticchyna
2005-09-19 10:26 pm UTC (link)
those are some very wondrful photos. of course nature stuff is my cup of tea.
i like both Canon and Nikon.

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[info]ryanbrenizer
2005-09-19 10:30 pm UTC (link)
I want a CanoNikon. ;-)

They hey their own strengths. Canon doesn't come close to Nikon in film and manual focus, because that's not their market. (Nikon is essentially Leica without the pomposity in manual focus), whereas Nikon doesn't have the $$$ to keep pumping out new super-telephoto lenses. Nothing wrong with either company, and in the end it's more important to make art.

Heck, I like Minolta, Pentax, and Olympus, too. I have old SLRs in each, plus an old Kodak Brownie and a Yashica Mat 124 G. Can't we all get along?

And oh yeah, I almost forgot that I've done most of my shooting with a Fuji dSLR. I'm all over the place.

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[info]ryanbrenizer
2005-09-19 10:31 pm UTC (link)
But I do think that putting a white lens on a black camera looks silly. ;-)

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[info]mysticchyna
2005-09-20 07:20 am UTC (link)
haha...yes it's a bit of a clash i think too.
i agree with you on the other comment...and i am jealous of your nifty camera collection.
i did recently get off Ebay an old Pentas Ashia (sp?) 110 film SLR. it's so tiny! takes 110 film, but is a real slr...

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[info]ryanbrenizer
2005-09-20 09:02 am UTC (link)
Most of them were my father's … I had to get this from somewhere.

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