The ‘reporter’s lens’
Posted on January 7, 2007
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While walking a 3.6 mile loop with Linda, Cassie and friend Chris Cullen Wallace this AM, we came upon this scene, nicely framed by the 420 mm (!) end of the new Lumix DMC FZ50’s DC Vario-Elmarit. (I wish the camera had a shorter name). Pally firemen often drill at a field near Stanford Corral, and it has amused us to watch them on our Sunday walks. The Lumix optics and image stabilization make it easy to get screen-rez pix of scenes like this. Hand-holding a (small) 400+mm on a lightweight body like the Lumix is not easy, even in good light, for me anyway.
By the time we actually came upon the firetrucks, hoses were being rolled up and the drill was over, so the long reach (Larry Burroughs always called telephotos ‘the reorters lens’) caught a moment we would have otherwise missed. Still learning the Lumix… it’s an interesting camera…
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[…] Our new Lumix DMC FZ50 has been with us for a month now, and I’m really finding it a very useful tool. Its Leica DC Vario Elmarit takes very good pictures, and shows its Leica heritage in both good sharpness and contrast in the 10.1 MP images it produces. It’s amazing to be able to reach from (in 35mm SLR terms) 35mm to 420mm (!) in a 6-inch long lens package, and I’m rediscovering the joys of long glass, without having to tote a monster lens along. […]
[…] Our new Lumix DMC FZ50 has been with us for a month now, and I’m really finding it a very useful tool. Its Leica DC Vario Elmarit takes very good pictures, and shows its Leica heritage in both good sharpness and contrast in the 10.1 MP images it produces. It’s amazing to be able to reach from (in 35mm SLR terms) 35mm to 420mm (!) in a 6-inch long lens package, and I’m rediscovering the joys of long glass, without having to tote a monster lens along. […]