Day 3577 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this date four years ago (day 2116 of one photo every day): Brooklyn
I generally don’t like zooms, they suffer from image quality issues relative to prime lenses, and they tend to be bulky. This lens is indeed bulky but it’s easier to manage than three primes and it covers the focal lengths that I use on a daily basis. Also if I want tighter than 70mm the camera’s 42 meg sensor facilitate cropping in a pinch, and for wider than 24 I can stitch frames (which I do all the time).
It turns out that this lens performs well corner to corner by f4.0 at focal lengths 35-70mm and at 50 to 70mm is actually fine wide open (“fine” is high praise from me). It’s very good corner to corner at 28mm but much less so at 24mm, so a decent strategy is to limit wides to 35mm and stitch. I’ve been torturing it with back lit situations and shooting bokeh oriented images – it’s actually excellent to my eyes in both respects. So I’ll keep going with it for a while to further understand its quirks in actual use. The images below are both at 24mm.
Day 3420 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this date nine years ago (day 133 of one photo every day): Times Square at night.
Day 3206 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this date three years ago (day 2110): Sixth Avenue
Day 3097 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this date five years ago (day 1271): The Old Patent Office
Day 2,946 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day four years ago (day 1,485): Basil takes a break – actually a monumental vase from Spin ceramics
Day 2,727 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day three years ago (day 1,631): Park Avenue
Day 2380 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (day 1649): Reservoir
