Nice Photos.

Sir Norman Foster's City Hall, London (better in Flickr):

How about a beautiful-looking, beautifully built, small, unobtrusive, easy-to-use, simplicity-itself, great-fun-to-use German rangefinder camera with a rather under-specced (on paper at least) old fashioned CCD sensor and an outstanding 50mm lens from 1984?

A bejewelled Gherkin

(Click on the pic to see in Flickr)

Sometimes...

Inside City Hall

Excellent, Kevin.  Very "chromatic"!

Tony

Kevin,

Leicas are great. They are compact, well engineered, have excellent optics and their latest US made sensors have nothing to be ashamed of, to say the least.

Unfortunately, the way I shoot, hardly ever cropping, I always need to look through the glass to achieve the desired composition and precise focal point. This is why I end up schlepping these cumbersome SLR bodies.

Haim

Blooming bokeh

http://www.flickr.com/photos/h...hotostream/lightbox/

Another magical lens from the 1980s, a Nikkor 200mm f/4 AIS.  Better built than the modern lenses (made of metal), small, light weight and with great optics. Purchased last month in a perfect condition for $96. The two current primary 200mm Nikkors go for only $2000 and $5000.

Very pretty Haim

Nice pics Jamie/Haim.

Thanks Tony. The advantages of shooting in a building with a chrome-plated spiral roof!

Skyline in B&W

Same with yours, Jamie. Beautiful light and a great composition. It is amazing how we both are using the same focal length (200mm) and aperture (f/4) and yet I get such a shallower (paper thin actually) depth of field due to my camera's smaller DX sensor. By the way, both images were captured on the same date of May first, I don't know how many miles apart (mine was taken in Chicago).

Haim

Hi Haim, thanks very much.

Something to think about though, the depth of field actually decreases with the larger sensor, e.g. full frame. My picture potentially looks like it has greater dof simply because the main objects of focus in it are within a narrower plane already, but you will notice the stalk 'by' the flower is not in focus even though it was actually right in front of it...

Jamie, I am not sure. I think that as long as we use equivalent lenses, for example normal lens (50mm for you 80mm for me) the full sensor image will have less depth of field. However, when the 200mm is acting on my body like a 300mm it becomes more stingy with its DOF than your 200mm.

Yes, quite. We're all saying the same thing. Ignore 'equivalents', Haim used a 200mm lens on a 1.5 crop Nikon, I used a 200mm on 'full frame' Canon, both shots at f/4. So the dof apparent in the images produced will look greater from a smaller sensor camera.

Which can of course be very useful, a recent picture I posted of a bridge across the River Orbe has a large dof for most of the bridge length, in part because I took it with an S95 carrying a tiny sensor, from which it's quite hard to get close to anything like 'paper thin'!

42, Walkie Talkie, Cheese Grater and Gherkin:

Another view inside City Hall:

Lady on steps:

"42, Walkie Talkie, Cheese Grater, and Gherkin".

Perfect. No doubt as to the buildings being singled out.

Cheers Clay.

A different view of the same quartet:

Some bridge or other:

You may be disorientated