{"id":1273,"date":"2009-05-28T02:27:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T02:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2009-05-28T02:27:14","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T02:27:14","slug":"big-gs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1273","title":{"rendered":"Big Gs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bggo1.jpg\"><br \/>\nWhite twins! The Sony 70-200mm F2.8G SSM on the Sony Alpha 700 with a VG-C70AM battery grip and HVL-F58AM flash attached&#8230; times two!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bggo2.jpg\"><br \/>\nNot so twins &#8211; left, the Konica Minolta 17-35mm F2.8-4, right, the Konica Minolta 11-18mm F4.5-5.6 DT. Both are Tamron rebadges with Minolta&#8217;s secret sauce marinated in.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bggo3.jpg\"><br \/>\nI used the KM 17-35mm at F2.8 and its closest focusing distance of 30cm, to get this!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bggo4.jpg\"><br \/>\nYou know what they say about big hands&#8230; (the Sony Carl Zeiss 135mm F1.8 is dwarfed!)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bggo5.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe cheapest G, the Sony 70-300mm F4.5-5.6G SSM.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bggo6.jpg\"><br \/>\n<b>FOCUS!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>(This idea was taken from a shot that <b>Siddiq<\/b> took.)<\/p>\n<p>I used the Sony 70-200mm F2.8G SSM for this, shot at 70mm F2.8.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bggo7.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe Sony 70-200mm excels at bokeh &#8211; this is a shot at 200mm F2.8, cropped a bit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bggo8.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe KM 17-35mm at 35mm does a respectable close-up &#8211; here&#8217;s the Konica Minolta Dynax 7 Digital, a great body of its time. On it is a classic Minolta 20mm F2.8 Original!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bggo9.jpg\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.signither.com\/\" target=\"_BLANK\">Signither<\/a> with his <b>Kabuto<\/b>!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bggo10.jpg\"><br \/>\nRazlan shows us how to focus my Vivitar 24mm F2.0 DIY tilt-shift lens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White twins! The Sony 70-200mm F2.8G SSM on the Sony Alpha 700 with a VG-C70AM battery grip and HVL-F58AM flash attached&#8230; times two! Not so twins &#8211; left, the Konica Minolta 17-35mm F2.8-4, right, the Konica Minolta 11-18mm F4.5-5.6 DT. Both are Tamron rebadges with Minolta&#8217;s secret sauce marinated in. I used the KM 17-35mm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}