My long lenses are used for wildlife, mountains, rivers, people, and other
things where I can't get closer to the target (to fill the frame) with
shorter lenses. I have two frustrations with long lenses. Any movement of
the lens causes a lack of sharpness in the image. This is much more
pronounced than with shorter lenses. If you must set up in a hurry it can be
difficult to shoot from a stable platform. Frequently there is not
sufficient light to use faster shutter speeds. Atmospheric conditions also
play a major role. Heat waves, wind, dust, smoke, or water vapor all cause
image problems with long lenses. Your eyes can compensate for these effects
much better than the camera/film. When you see super-sharp non-captive
wildlife images that clearly show individual hairs, know that someone went
to great pains to achieve that.
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[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Thomas Heide Clausen
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 1:48 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: How do you use your extreme focal lengths...(was: Re: [OM] a
purely hypothetical question... -not- OT!)
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 12:10:15 -0800
"George M. Anderson, Photographer" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My opinion FWIW:
>
<SNIP>
> The 350 is also a great lens, but I think the 250 is a bit better,
> for what they so. Course I now have a 500/4 when I pop the 1.4 on.
> And the 2x is actually quite useable on the 350. In fact I have
> stacked both at once giving pretty darn good results as a 1000/8.
Uhmm...what are you using such long lenses for, I wonder?
The longest I own is the 300/4.5 - and I think I have taken about 25
frames with thatone. It is nice for those few times I need to reach
far, but I could not justify anything more expensive (as both the
250, 350 and 500 are). I also have the 1.4 teleconverter, but I have
yet to find reason to mount that on the 300mm.
I'm kinda curious as to which types of photography such "long"
(extreme?) focal lengths are being used for by fellow zuikoholics.
Are everyone bird/wildlife/motorsports photographers, or is it just
that big glass is facinating? Or, and most likely, perhaps I am just
missing out of something... :)
Please, enlighten me....
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