Reading
Glass --
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Ready to wear reading glass are a convenient
way to bring small print into clear focus.
many styles and magnification options are
available. Hiding one's eyes has
implications in face-to-face communication:
It can hide weeping, being one of the signs
of mourning, makes eye contact impossible
which can be intimidating, like in the
stereotype of the guardian of a chain gang
as depicted in Cool Hand Luke, or can show
detachment, which is considered cool in some
circles.
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The most
important component of your camera is the
lens. If there is a place to spend the
money, it's on the glass. I'd take a 5 year
old 20D with a good lens over a top of the
line 1Ds MkIII with a crappy lens any day of
the week. I can't tell you the number of
people I see who have this all wrong. Last
year at the Grand Canyon, I saw a girl with
a high-end Gitzo tripod, 5D body, and some
crappy consumer level zoom lens on the
front. Honestly, I almost pushed her over
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In the recent
past and for most people in the world, zoom
lenses have been their bread and butter. In
fact, many SLR owners only
have one lens, it's a zoom, and it stays on
the body at all times. This is fine for the
parent who bought a digital rebel with a kit
lens to take pictures of their newborn and
whatnot, but you're not getting the most out
of that camera.
So people may talk about the latest
22MP Canon monster (which I'm totally
salivating over) or the fabled 24MP Sony
sensor that's in the wings. However, all
these sensors are going to show is the
limitations of most of the lenses you put in
front of them. Now, I'm not one of those
people who says that the 22MP sensor
'out-resolves' the available lenses. It
probably bests some of the lower-end and
consumer glass, but it will certainly show
weaknesses that got lost in the past.
Camera shake, inaccurate focusing,
vignetting, and yes, at wide apertures,
especially on zooms, they will not be sharp
enough.
