This blog entry makes history as an update within 12 hours of the event itself. On the 5th of April 2008, I went to One Utama for the Triumph fashion show and geekout with Sony Alpha owners.
All shots with the Minolta 70-210mm F4 beercan except this shot. Seen is a Canon 300mm F2.8. I have no idea what he was intending to shoot…
…at 210mm it was already very tightly framed!
Look at the crowd in the background. Yeah, that’s what the beercan does – it has the famed classic Minolta bokeh.
I somehow like the mood of this shot.
I caught someone else’s flash.
She looks… restricted.
At some point, one designer decided to cosplay his models.
Angel with a cold stare.
This bra apparently transforms into a shopping bag. I’d like to see a live demonstration of this!
And now, to geekout:
tshop‘s amazing Canon BP-200 mod as a Sony A100 battery grip! Way neater than the other versions I’ve seen because his wire is flat.
That is the coolest looking flash bracket I’ve seen, only because it’s circular. I forgot what the other one was but it was spring-loaded.
Major respect to this Pentax user with the Pentax 50-135mm F2.8 lens – this is the lens I’ve been telling people to get instead of a heavier 70-200mm F2.8 which was meant for full-frame and would be too long for events and not wide enough at times.
Canon 70-200mm F4L non-IS next to the Minolta 70-210mm F4 beercan. I honestly don’t understand why it’s so much bigger for the same range… and the Canon doesn’t have IS inside, even.
1100mm F16 1/25s ISO1600
From Burger King One Utama, we could snipe into rooms at One World Hotel using my Tamron 200-400mm F5.6 + 1.4x + 2x teleconverters. Problem is, nobody puts a light to their faces, as it’s hard to see past a window when it lowers contrast.
Alpha males.
Wtf, 300 for what.
200 is already good for 10metres and even that I find too much.
Regarding the 70-200 F4L, maybe it has more elements than your lens and maybe the USM motor is considerably big thus the big lens housing?
*shrugs*
Heck, even Canon 50mm 1.4 is way bigger than Nikkor 50mm 1.4, lol
To save cost maybe? Canon would only need one lens body line to house the IS and non IS etc.
@Albert: The dude with the bazooka was aiming for more restrictive access. The kind a 210mm can’t provide *LOL*
maybe his camera was a 1Ds full framer? 😀 300mm on a full frame is peanuts
well.. it’s a Rm30k lens.. so he expects it to have the functions of a Xbra machine.. =P well.. try harder..
anonymous: Yes, it would be very much like my 2nd shot, but in portrait, (his trigger finger is higher than eye level) which should allow more on the top and bottom. Narrower DOF, too.
Nicholas.C: That makes sense!
Asyraf Lee: Yep, the Canon 50mm F1.4 is chunky and that’s not even the true ring-type USM!
Come to think of it, maybe the dude was on full-frame…
300 on a full frame is like having a 200 on a cropped body lah, still too tight for runways.
Well, I guess he wants a very specific shots.
Betul juga…
Based on my second shot at 210mm (left and right cropped) and multiplying the area by 1.5x to get the portrait look, it should frame something like #5 in height. Still very usable, perhaps he and I both like tight crops.