Santorini – a Dynax 5D,
light and colour
New Dynax user David Anderson
trusted the 5D to deliver results
I
’m very much a beginner with kit lens for the 5D. With the 18-70mm
digital SLRs, having only got at wide angle I could see a little
the Konica Minolta 5D three colour fringeing towards the edges
weeks before a cruise round the of the frame. I could not detect this
Aegean. As this was very much a with the Minolta 24-85mm ƒ3.5-4.5
one-off event for us, I persuaded my and was much more impressed, so
better half to let me upgrade from this became my main lens. I also took
my consumer zoom digital camera. a vintage 70-210mm ƒ4 (nice results)
The cruise was very hectic, and a standard 50mm ƒ1.7 (didn’t
with the organised excursions use much except in a Museum).
sometimes leaving very little time for I shot in RAW + JPG mode
photography from the best places. It exclusively. I have not made use of
was extremely crowded and hot on the .MRW raw files yet, but I wanted
Santorini and I’m amazed that I man- to have them available for the future.
aged to get so many shots without I took just over 1,000 photos and we
American tourists with red baseball downloaded them to my old Apple
caps in the way! Most photography PowerBook each day then backed
was a matter of point and shoot them up to my iPod just in case.
before the crowds got in front. I took many photographs of other
Fortunately I had been able to locations we visited on the cruise,
purchase a few other ‘used market’ and none were quite so spectacular
Minolta lenses just before we left from the photographic point of view
for the cruise and found out rather as Santorini – even with its tourists.
quickly how much they added to the null
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