Wallace Koopmans Artlog

Not every image needs to have a deeper meaning, I do enjoy photography sometimes just for the mere fact of the doing.  These images fall into that category.

It’s a bit of a thorny issue, talking about the P7000’s focus which causes moments of wonderment, such as why didn’t it focus on the object in front of it or why does it focus only after a second press of the shutter button.  Most of the time it is great and I don’t expect perfection but I do like consistency.  One area that I couldn’t find any info about was the minimum focus distance for different equivalent focal lengths.  I suspect the value given in the spec. sheet is just for the widest lens setting.   So I did some testing and these are my results with a high contrast target and measuring to the front of the camera body.

28mm……1 3/4″ , 35mm……2 1/2″ , 50mm……6 3/4″ , 85mm……..13 1/4″ , 105mm……15″ , 135mm…….15 3/4″ , 200mm……16 3/4″

Yes it looks odd to me as well to have the focal lengths in metric and the distance in imperial but that was the tape measure I had on hand.

On a family trip I decided to only take the Nikon P7000 as my digital camera, leaving behind my DSLR.  I did take a medium format rangefinder which film isn’t back yet.  Here is a sample of the more general images I took.  They cover all kinds of focal lengths but primarily were shot in bright sun. 

OK I didn’t actually have lunch with Ken Lum, I’ve never met him but I’m pretty sure that if he is as interesting as his art it would be a good lunch.  What I did do aside from eat at the cafeteria at the Vancouver art gallery was see the Ken Lum exhibit as well as “The Colour of My Dreams THE SURREALIST REVOLUTION IN ART”  both are fantastic shows.  and were well worth the trip.  As is usual for me I carried a camera, which I would not have dreamed of using in the gallery.  I surendering it at the front desk for safe keeping, while people with camera phones snuck around pretending to be ignorant of the rules.  I saw you behind that Jim Campbell installation!  Anyway here are some of the images I shot in colour with my new Nikon P7000.

I took the train into Vancouver to see the surrealist exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery.  Of course I took along my latest camera the Nikon P7000 which is an advanced point and shoot.  One of the most surreal moments aside from the guy that talked to me while he washed his feet in the fountain and the women carrying the injured pigeon was the woman who tripped and put her hand right in the middle of a surrealist painting.  I had a moment where I had to think, did that just happen?