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*** January 2025 Image and Video Thread ***
- Thread starter Pete_W
- Start date
pdk42
Moderator
I am a lineman for the county,
And I drive the main road,
Searching in the sun for another overload,
I hear you singing in the wire.
I can hear you thru the whine
And the Wichita Lineman
Is still on the line.
Such a great song, and your shot evokes it perfectly!
Travis Butler
Well-Known Member
I thank you very much for your kind words.
But there are other spots on the Wichita Drive that I think might fit better...
20201011-PA115543 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
E-M1 II, Yashinon DX 50/1.4
20201011-PA115562 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
E-M1 II, Minolta MC Rokkor-PG 50/1.4
Markuswelder
Well-Known Member
It's that time of the year again for my favorite annual car show. Absolutely love it, go every year if I'm in the country. Shot with my adapted El Cheapo EF 40mm pancake. Mostly wide open. It has a little bit of magic about it, that tiny little lens.
- Panasonic - DC-S5
- 40.0 mm
- ƒ/2.8
- 1/2500 sec
- Pattern
- Auto exposure
- 0.3
- ISO 100
- Panasonic - DC-S5
- 40.0 mm
- ƒ/2.8
- 1/4000 sec
- Pattern
- Auto exposure
- 0.3
- ISO 100
- Panasonic - DC-S5
- 40.0 mm
- ƒ/2.8
- 1/1000 sec
- Pattern
- Auto exposure
- -0.3
- ISO 100
Markuswelder
Well-Known Member
- Panasonic - DC-S5
- 40.0 mm
- ƒ/2.8
- 1/1600 sec
- Pattern
- Auto exposure
- 0.3
- ISO 100
- Panasonic - DC-S5
- 40.0 mm
- ƒ/2.8
- 1/1300 sec
- Pattern
- Auto exposure
- -1
- ISO 100
- Panasonic - DC-S5
- 40.0 mm
- ƒ/2.8
- 1/3200 sec
- Pattern
- Auto exposure
- -1
- ISO 100
JohnnyMauser
Member
So i bought a flash and am experimenting
- Panasonic - DC-S5M2X
- 100.0 mm
- ƒ/4
- 1/500 sec
- Pattern
- Manual exposure
- ISO 200
Jonathan-Mac
Well-Known Member
If you like the song you should track down a copy of REM's version (I think it's a live performance). It's definitely the best version of the song.
I agree on the 40mm judging by that first shot - sharp and contrasty with just enough shallow depth of field to throw the background slightly out of focus.
Markuswelder
Well-Known Member
Yeah, I think that if they're going to make something, 40mm would be the focal length to do it. 43mm is just too close to the already existing Sigma 45mm, and you'd want to maximise sales potential.
pdk42
Moderator
Try pointing the flash at the subject!
On the subject of flash, I recently bought one of these, and it's transformed flash results for informal people shots:
JohnnyMauser
Member
I think i am halfway there. ;-) Well, is the glas half full or half empty?Try pointing the flash at the subject!
I would love to see shots with this vs regular ceiling bounce.
The Rigger
LMF-Patron Gold
Oh, I'll take issue with that... I'd take James Taylor's cover (2007) or Johnny Cash's (2002) over REM's cover any day. Ray Charles did a pretty excellent cover, as well.
Of course, the original is as good as it gets.
Of course it is, any covers are never touching Glen Campbell.
Unless you're a guitarist or musician you probably don't know Glen was a God, a master of his instrument. But the average Joe will only know him for Wichita and Rhinestone Cowboy.
Pete_W
LMF-Patron
I set out on my early evening walk after work today with Apple Music on shuffle and the second song played was Wichita Lineman.Of course it is, any covers are never touching Glen Campbell.
Unless you're a guitarist or musician you probably don't know Glen was a God, a master of his instrument. But the average Joe will only know him for Wichita and Rhinestone Cowboy.
So having seen mention of other versions in this thread, I searched and found literally dozens of them! I didn't realise it had been covered by so many others. So I started playing them as I walked and got through almost 20.
I have to say that some of them were egregious.
I didn't even like James Taylor's version despite the fact that I quite like James Taylor. The two I liked the best were the original Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb's version which was mostly unplugged, just piano and some sparingly used guitar. Colin Hay had quite a good version too.Anyway, I can't get the tune out of my head now.
Well at least it is Wichita, I've had "Too Shy" by 80's band KagaGooGoo in my head since Christmas after YouTube algorithm fed a video of the analysis of the bassline which is highly technical and distinctive.
BTW Jimmy Webb wrote Wichita along with dozens of other famous songs, he also wrote another famous Glen Campbell song "Galveston".
Pete_W
LMF-Patron
Ha ha!
Yes, I was reading the wiki article about Wichita Lineman which is quite comprehensive. The song was a follow up to Glen Campbell's previous hit "By the time I get to Phoenix", also written by Jimmy Webb. He's a great song writer.
Anyway, I can't get the tune out of my head now.
Good old Glen Campbell. He was a favourite of my brother's and I still remember that song 50+ years later.
From the same period, and on the subject of songs about places, my first LP was Amazing Blondel's Fantasia Lindum. I still want to go see Lincoln Cathedral...
Pete_W
LMF-Patron
Just took a look/listen. That's a new one for me - I don't recall ever hearing of them!