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Darmok N Jalad

macrumors 603
Sep 26, 2017
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Tanagra (not really)
I've had it around 6-8 months , I guess . Like yours , mine was 'new to me' . I don't think I want to walk around all day with it , thought it's probably not as bad as my full frame Canon and 100-400 . My sample's zoom ring gets a bit stiff towards 300 and up , though it seems to have loosened up a bit ; or maybe I'm just getting used to it . Not gritty or anything , you just have the feel that lots of stuff is getting moved around inside the lens . It was picked up originally for a trip to Yellowstone/Grand Tetons I'd planned for the fall , but the virus had other ideas . So the trip's gotta wait , and I get time to practice with it as the lens is definitely 'specialist optics'
Yeah, and Olympus came out with their own 100-400, but it's even bigger! I'd like to try with the PL100-400 again, but it's hard to find that lens at a really good price used where it doesn't sound like it was dropped down a rocky slope.
 
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fauxtog

macrumors 6502a
May 19, 2017
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r.harris1

macrumors 68020
Feb 20, 2012
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Denver, Colorado, USA
Speaking of lies and photography, I love doing landscapes with long lenses. This isn't great as it's not a spot on composition and it was handheld at 600mm but illustrates the point. This is taken from the plains east of Denver back over the Boulder Flatirons (the city of Boulder is out of site nestled below these formations and couldn't be seen from where I was). The mountains behind look like they're looming over and are massive. Yet, from a "normal" human perspective, it's much, much less "looming". I'll try and post a "normal" view later in the coming week.

A lot of marketing shots of Denver or Boulder always show massive mountains right up at the city. You can definitely see mountains, but..

Boulder Flatirons by Ray Harrison, on Flickr
 
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