More pictures.

This is one of my favourites.. taken last week. The thing with candid shots is that you have to be a. prepared, b. have the undefinable thing called 'instinct for art' to know what is a great picture moment and what is ordinary and c. have the right equipment. I have long believed that a suitable long lens is what is needed to get the perfect shot. The problem is that long lenses tend to be somewhat dim/slow and do not give the crispness that a 40-150 lens tends to deliver. Also handheld shots with the lens fully racked out can be quite troublesome. That is why people spend so much on fast tripods like Bogen-/Manfrotto kits. I have a cheap Sunpak pan head which is neat for stationary objects but simply unsuitable for moving objects. Then again, shooting at night presents its own problems. Tricky light conditions and moving objects combine to make photographing them really difficult. The only solution is to jack up the ISO to something like 1000. I don't trust the sensor above that.. way too much noise. A really fast lens makes all the difference at that point. Antivibration, either built into the lens or the sensor is mostly useless at night. But f2.0 or wider would be very welcome.

As it turns out recently, I got to look at the Nikon 18-200 mm antivibration lens. There is nothing like it to compare on the market... I would like to see Olympus give us something like that. The problem is that Olympus makes good, but very expensive glass. But who knows, maybe I will get myself the next professional body from Olympus in two years time... and if that has built in antivibration for the sensor and a flip back display (with live-view) then that will be perfect. But expensive.