i only talk to my wife about photography ... and with her it's:
"which lens will i need; the long one, the short one, or the prime?"
:)
she also confuses "zoomed in" and "zoomed out" because she goes by what the lens looks like rather than what's happening when the lens is "zooming out".
If you are a confident photographer, it does not matter 'how' you say anything.
If it does matter to you, then you might as well go and buy that vest with all those pockets, and wear at least two more bodies around your neck, have a patch somewhere on your hat that say "photographer".
In English I put the 'to' in... In Korean and Japanese I don't, just roll the numbers off... guess it just depends on where you're from and what language you're speaking...
For a bit when I read this I thought maybe you meant me! I'm pretty sure when we spoke at lunch on sunday that I didnt use the "to" when we discussed your lens. I know I dont when I discuss mine. Its pure laziness on my part.
MattO
No, Matt, you weren't the first one that I have heard this from...but you are the reason for this thread. See, at first I jumped to a conclusion that the guy in class was duped into spending a lot of money by a salesman throwing technical jargon at him. He, in turn, throws out the same jargon in order to appear smarter and fancier than the rest of the class. “Well this is the super-fancy Canon 7300 flip-nut model that cost me $XXXX (imply: I’m a better photographer than you).” Again, I jumped to this conclusion (and have since realized that he was saying 70-300). Then, at the GTG, I heard you skip the “to” when speaking of a variable length lens. This is what got me thinking...who else skips the “to”? And thus, this thread started to find out.
Horse, I am not going to change how I say things…I was just wondering how everybody else talks. And I do have a multi-pocket vest. I don't wear it often, but it came in handy on the infield of the MSHSAA State Track Meets.
I'll be honest.. if I'm talking to people that aren't into photography, I'll use "to"... for clarification.
If I'm talking to people that are photographers, or know quite a bit about photography, I tend to go short-hand for most terms. In that case, I'll even leave out saying "f" for the aperture range.
So a conversation with another photographer will go thus:
"You hear about the fifty one thirty five two eight coming out? It looks like a beauty!"
where the same conversation with someone not into photography will go thus:
"I like this new lens, it is a fifty to one hundred and thirty five millimeter eff two point eight constant. What does that mean? Well let me explain..."
I was going to post the same thing ... I say it more like "ta" not because of my dialect, but because it makes the "to" more distinguishable from "two", as in "seventy ta two hundred two point eight".
I was going to post the same thing ... I say it more like "ta" not because of my dialect, but because it makes the "to" more distinguishable from "two", as in "seventy ta two hundred two point eight".
If you posted in this thread you should not be allowed a zoom lens, only primes.
And on that note Spaz is now selling:
Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
Sigma 12-24mm f/4.5-5.6 EX Aspherical DG for Canon
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM
If you posted in this thread you should not be allowed a zoom lens, only primes.
Excellent. How's it work, we give you our zooms and you give us in return?
In lieu of my twenty to thirty-five, twenty-four to one-oh-five and seventy-five to three-hundred lenses, I'd like a twenty, twenty-four, thirty-five, one-thirty-five, two-hundred and three-hundred please. Maaaaaate.
