There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
When I started checking on my compositions after some time, I found I was shooting in the 25mm-35mm range more often than not. But the long reach of the zoom is good for the occasional animal you get opportunities to shoot. And you will find subjects like sunrises/sunsets work better on a longer zoom to give the illusion of a larger sun. Really the first prime lens I would recommend for a DX body is the Nikon 35mm DX f1.8. It is a "normal" on a DX body and works great for candid indoor photography as well as some landscape photography in lower light settings.