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 04/19/2007 10:39:44 AM · #26
I don't have any lenses to brag about.

Message edited by author 2007-04-19 10:39:52.
 04/19/2007 10:50:14 AM · #27
the "to" sounds like another number when I run into people that use it - "I've got to get my 72-200 for this shot"??? Wow, that's a specialty lens!

Plus, saying "to" everytime I talk about a lens could actually be taking time off of my life - I don't want to risk that!
 04/19/2007 10:54:19 AM · #28
After reading this thread, I have decided to only use prime lenses from now on...
 04/19/2007 10:59:27 AM · #29
I don't say 'to' or 'point'... Evidently that makes me lazy... Too bad.
 04/19/2007 11:01:54 AM · #30
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".
 04/19/2007 11:08:55 AM · #31
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".

Along with the 'how', you will then 'fit' in.
 04/19/2007 11:14:52 AM · #32
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...
 04/19/2007 12:52:03 PM · #33
I usually say "17 to 55". Apertures are "two point eight", "four", "five point six", "eight", "eleven" etc.

I guess for apertures Surdic form would be just as good: "two root two", "four", "four root two", etc. Not met anyone who does that though :).

splidge
04/19/2007 01:49:34 PM · #34
Originally posted by MattO:

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. âWell this is the super-fancy Canon 7300 flip-nut model that cost me $XXXX (imply: Iâm a better photographer than you).â 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 âtoâ when speaking of a variable length lens. This is what got me thinking...who else skips the âtoâ? And thus, this thread started to find out.

Horse,
I am not going to change how I say thingsâ¦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.

Here's to all you who say "to" too!
-drew
 04/19/2007 02:20:47 PM · #35
I too say "to"...and also "eff two point eight."

But then I majored in English not art nor photography.
(It's an affliction, I know, but it's something I have to live with for the rest of my life.)
 04/19/2007 02:29:46 PM · #36
i often just say the numbers... 80, 200, or 17, 35.
 04/19/2007 02:37:56 PM · #37
I say:

achtentwintig vijfenzeventig

does that make sense?

I never use english numbers.
 04/19/2007 02:44:25 PM · #38
28-75

tjugoåtta sjuttiofem ;)

or

tjuåtta chöttifem in my accent :D

Message edited by author 2007-04-19 14:44:49.
 04/19/2007 03:13:09 PM · #39
Definitely with "to".

It's not proper, otherwise. You can't have a lens that only does 70 and 300. It does from 70 to 300.

If it were a 70,300 lens instead of a 70-300 lens, maybe. :p
 04/19/2007 03:31:11 PM · #40
I say the "to" and "point" unless it is a four.

"I really don't have the money but I really want a seventy to two hundred f four l.
 04/19/2007 03:46:19 PM · #41
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..."

04/19/2007 04:12:00 PM · #42
Seventy "ta" three hundred eff two point eight.

But I am originally from the Scranton, Pennsylvania area. Henna or no?
 04/19/2007 04:14:05 PM · #43
to
 04/19/2007 05:14:37 PM · #44
Originally posted by TonyT:
Seventy "ta" three hundred eff 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".
 04/19/2007 05:46:54 PM · #45
Originally posted by Creature:
Originally posted by TonyT:
Seventy "ta" three hundred eff 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".


Same here.
 04/19/2007 06:10:14 PM · #46
Me too
 04/19/2007 09:50:39 PM · #47
16-35

"sexton till trettiofem"

öùíÃ- "Sexton te' trettifem"
 04/19/2007 10:30:28 PM · #48
If you posted in this thread you should not be allowed a zoom lens, only primes.
 04/19/2007 10:44:19 PM · #49
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
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

First come first serve!
04/22/2007 09:39:51 AM · #50
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
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.
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