Ken's Shoot Notes Blog

Current Lenses

HuthPhoto — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:52:30 +0000

A young photo-friend just asked about what current Canon lenses I like and what I’m up to… here’s what I said:

Since I switched to Canon, I bought exactly the lens kit I wanted and love them all. A 24-70 F4 came with one body and it’s a great ‘event’ lens. My favorite lens is the 70-200 F2.8 IS EDIF… beautiful lens, flexible for theatre (no need to switch lenses), just stunningly sharp with beautiful soft backgrounds at 2.8. There’s a new version out January 2010 that’s supposed to be even better.

I bought a 16-35 F2.8 that is fantastic as well. It has some cool wide ’style’ to it, is great in low light. And it’s fairly flat (as much as possible) at the edges, so it’s very usable for groups, etc.

Since I bought it all exactly what I needed, there’s nothing to sell off yet. Eventually I might sell my first gen 5D, which is full frame, but I keep it as a backup in my car. I bought the Canon T2i for the HD video and as a light backup second body, and for video and for megapixels, it’s terrific… but it’s built so light, you couldn’t use it as a main body.

Much of what I’ve been learning over the last 2 years has been flexible, small lighting. Check out Strobist and the book ‘Hot Shoe Diaries‘ for that… and good luck!

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HuthPhoto — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:00:00 +0000

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HuthPhoto — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:00:00 +0000

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Pageant @ The Harley School

HuthPhoto — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:44:17 +0000

Pageant @ the Harley School:

With some superheroes thrown in for good measure.

Chilling out before lining up for the big event.

Lookingglass Alice for Syracuse Stage

HuthPhoto — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:36:57 +0000

Syracuse Stage: Lookingglass Alice

See the photos HERE

Picking a GPS for Geocaching

HuthPhoto — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:33:56 +0000

You don’t have to go nuts with spending… but I know that car GPS’s don’t really work, since you are 99% off the road for Geocaching.

You can use the Groundspeak Geocaching app for the iPhone, but we cache in such bad weather/spots that I’d hate to have to carry the phone out in the open for hours and risk it… and I don’t know that the iPhone GPS is as fast/exact as a dedicated GPS for getting within a few fee of something… it could be a cheap start though, if you have the iPhone anyway. Oh, and it’s a great app for going paperless and has tons of great features. Well worth the money. And there’s a Free Version to play around with first.
We have a Garmin eTrex Venture HC… I dunno, around $125? And it’s perfect. You do want one that’ll hook USB to your computer, so you don’t have to manually enter the coordinates.
DON’T get a Magellan. The one I bought had issues, and they refused to repair or replace it… said it was discontinued, even though I just bought it. Go to Geocaching.com and see what people are saying they like.
There’s even a very simple/inexpensive one that comes pre loaded with caches… mostly to get kids started. But I like the multi-use of a full GPS.

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HuthPhoto — Sun, 30 May 2010 19:00:00 +0000

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