Digital SLR

Peter Phun on November 4th, 2009

I play a sport which many in the US might consider “girly” called badminton with mostly Southeast Asians. Many of them are medical professionals like doctors.
Inevitably the post game conversation will always lead to the poor doctor being peppered with questions like, “I have a pain in this part, gesturing to show body part, do [...]

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Not everyone who picks up a camera wants to turn professional.
And I don’t want to be the one to break the news to some who do, that their pictures are bad.
If you have another career, you should stay with it. I’m already losing my shirt as it is, I don’t need more competition.
If you’ve [...]

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Peter Phun on May 13th, 2009

Some of my phases of photography, I hope I’ve outgrown but it’s a battle, I’m only human.
But here’s more.
Contests
Contests serve a purpose. Besides the obvious, fame, prizes and cash, they get you off your rear end and give you a reason to be out and about looking at the world around you through that camera.
This [...]

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Peter Phun on May 7th, 2009

These Aztec dancers were photographed with a 180mm lens at f2.8 on a film camera. The equivalent focal length on a digital SLR without a full frame sensor would be 180 divided by 1.6 = 112 mm . What you see is the full frame. If needed, the picture could have been cropped to exclude [...]

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