Horseshoe Bend, Colorado River, Az
Horseshoe Bend is south of Page, Az on Hwy
89, about 5 miles out. There is a sign and a parking area on the right side
of Hwy 89. After parking your car, it is about 100 feet walking up a hill,
then it is about 1/2 mile walk, down hill to the bend. It is part of the Colorado
River that gone wild. The Horseshoe Bend is a very large place, a 19mm-24mm
is a good lens to used on a 35 mm full frame camera. The images was taken
app. 11:00am on 24th of June.
This picture was taken with the Canon 1Ds MkII, using the 24mm-70mm zoom lens, set at 24mm. To take this picture, you have to laid on your stomach and put the camera over the edge, and use the LCD to compose the image. At that position, a 24mm is the widest you can use, without getting the side of the cliff, it is also the middle. You can use a wider lens, if you move more to the left, if you look at the picture, you could see the rock sticking out at the bottom of the picture. When that rock is in the middle of the picture, you can use up to 19mm lens, without getting the side of the cliff.
Here is a picture, taken with a 14 mm lens, you could see the side of the cliff. You could also see the rock that is sticking out on the bottom left side.
Here is the image, taken with the Mamiya 645 with 35mm lens and P45 digital back. Both the Canon 1Ds MkII and this picture is full image, without any cropping. As you can see, the 24mm on the Canon is a little wider, that was the widest lens, I have to use at Page, Az except for the 14mm.
With the new crop of DSLR, with live preview, you do not have to shoot a image and check it for alignment. There is a long drop off the cliff, so if you drop your camera, it will fall about 1/2 mile to the bottom, you will never be able to go get it back nor do you want it. On this type of images, you will not see the difference from a 12 bits camera and a 16 bits camera.