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author:
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    name: Peter Molnar
    url: https://petermolnar.net
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lang: en
published: '2015-05-27T18:56:21+00:00'
tags:
- traffic
- Hungary
- sunset
- bus
- Astoria
- city
- street photography
- Budapest
- cityscape
title: Astoria Budapest

---

![](astoria-budapest.jpg)

I've taken this years ago. There are days when you just take out your
camera, to finally take some pictures and nothing goes as you expect it;
not the lights, not the people, nothing. It was one of those days -
until I finally turned around, towards the sun, not away from it. Also:
use a hood. I didn't. I had my 70-210mm lens on and took this at 70mm;
no time to change, or no other lens with me, I can't recall. The thing
is that on APS-C, it's equivalent to 105mm - a focal length I never use,
because it somewhat feels weird to me. Strangely, Pentax has a
collection of high quality lens, all with "odd" focal length: the
Limited. Currently 15, 21, 40 and 70mm[^1]; used to be 31, 43, 77 in the
film era. I've came across a theory in a forum that these focal lengths
produce a similar feeling to 60, 80 and 150mm on medium format
cameras[^2] - and to be honest, there is truth behind that. So the odd
feeling may just be the result if it comes with 3:2 aspect ration,
instead of 6:7 or 1:1.

[^1]: <http://www.pentaxforums.com/reviews/hd-pentax-limited-primes/introduction.html>

[^2]: <http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/10-pentax-slr-lens-discussion/225639-relationship-between-limited-fa-lenses-medium-format-standards-2.html>)