{"id":955,"date":"2007-09-29T01:53:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T01:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=955"},"modified":"2014-08-29T08:01:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T08:01:38","slug":"long-lens-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"Long Lens Story"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAnd now, for the official blog entry about my latest lens – the Tamron 200-400mm F5.6 A-mount<\/b> for Minolta\/Sony. Light passes from the lens to a Tamron 1.4x teleconverter and a Kenko 2x teleconverter before entering my Minolta Dynax 7 and going up my right-angle viewfinder. Also added for extra effect is a Sony HVL-F56AM flash.<\/p>\n


\nIt collapses to a more subtle size, one-third its extended, hooded length.<\/p>\n


\n400mm F11 1\/125s ISO400<\/b>. 400mm is the bare minimum for bird photography, or birding, in short.<\/p>\n


\n400mm F5.6 1\/500s ISO320<\/b>. If you think about it, 400mm F5.6 is like a 200mm F2.8 with a 2x teleconverter.<\/p>\n


\n1100mm F16 1\/15s ISO1600<\/b>. When you stack teleconverters, the camera refuses to autofocus at F16, but tries unsuccessfully to autofocus at F11. At F8 it can, but finds quite a struggle.<\/p>\n


\n1100mm F16 1\/40s ISO800<\/b>. Chromatic aberration is obvious with this lens. Stopping down one stop solves it.<\/p>\n


\n1100mm F16 1\/40s ISO400<\/b>. Guess what this is!<\/p>\n


\n1100mm F16 1\/3s ISO1600<\/b>. Stairway from Kinokuniya bookstore to Page One, taken from the bottom of KLCC Park.<\/p>\n


\n1100mm F16 1\/30s ISO1600<\/b>. An unsuspecting dude at the 2nd floor cafeteria in KLCC.<\/p>\n


\n1100mm F16 1\/8s ISO1600<\/b>. I should come here in the day to catch people in the Petronas Twin Towers Skybridge.<\/p>\n


\n1100mm F16 1\/2s ISO800<\/b>. Guess what this is!<\/p>\n


\n1100mm F22 1\/125s ISO400<\/b>. This might make it more obvious.<\/p>\n


\n1100mm F16 1\/160s ISO400<\/b>. No? What about this? (Oh, if only somebody would shine a torchlight in his\/her face as I took this picture.)<\/p>\n


\n1100mm F16 1\/125s ISO400<\/b>. The moon, handheld!<\/p>\n


\n100% crop.<\/p>\n

And yes, Super SteadyShot on the Sony A100 works extra hard for extra long focal lengths. You can hear it compensating vigorously, and it works! I can get sharp shots at 1\/125s 1100mm.<\/p>\n

I got the lens second-hand, for real cheap; however, a new one wasn’t that expensive either. The tripod mount can be loosened and rotated around; I turn it about so my left hand can hold it like a camcorder, heh.<\/p>\n

Ironic, then, that Canon and Nikon fans would brag that they have the most lenses… when I am the only guy I know who has the focal lengths from 8mm to 1100mm covered, on the Minolta\/Sony A-mount. That’s a 137.5x zoom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And now, for the official blog entry about my latest lens – the Tamron 200-400mm F5.6 A-mount for Minolta\/Sony. Light passes from the lens to a Tamron 1.4x teleconverter and a Kenko 2x teleconverter before entering my Minolta Dynax 7 and going up my right-angle viewfinder. Also added for extra effect is a Sony HVL-F56AM […]<\/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-955","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\/955","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=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7478,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/7478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}