Hi Stuart,
It's not what you asked, I know, but WMUK should consider investing in some new merchandise - using Wikipedia branding, not the WMUK logo because nobody has any idea what the latter is, which sort of defeats the point. I (re-)learnt at Wikimania that hats can be very useful outreach tools.
Harry Mitchell http://enwp.org/User:HJ +44 (0) 7507 536 971 Skype: harry_j_mitchell
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Rex X freezetag@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
The only thing I can say about microphones is that when I was recording bands in the 1970s, we mostly used Shure SM57s and SM58s. They were expensive but unbelievably rugged. You could use a cheap condenser microphone to mike up a flute or for "filling in", but the SM57s always sounded better when miking up acoustic guitars, drums, etc. I never found anything as good as the SM58s for vocals.
I guess there must be newer, cheaper mikes around now, but I'm out of touch with modern studio equipment.
-- Rexx
On 27 July 2016 at 16:01 geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 22 July 2016 at 22:40, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
If you want something that can cover the whole range, then Sigma do
some
quite nice superzoom lenses - I've been using an 18-200mm stabilised
lens as
my every-day lens on my 60D since 2010. There's a newer (2012-era)
18-250mm
lens that looks better:
https://www.ephotozine.com/article/sigma-18-250mm-f-3-5-6-3-dc-macro-os-hsm-...
costing around £200-£280 - but I'm a bit out of date on the newest
lenses...
Thanks, Mike
Well that would certainly solve the problem of providing a decent reach without lens duplication although I'd be surprised if it didn't distort a fair bit at the wider end.
And while I'll accept the blame this conversation has been largely about lenses. Anyone got anything to say about microphones?
-- geni
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