{"id":5225,"date":"2015-04-05T13:38:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T20:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=5225"},"modified":"2015-04-05T13:38:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T20:38:36","slug":"new-photography-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=5225","title":{"rendered":"New Photography Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=Indent>So, our favorite camera store was having a sale the other day, and we picked up a new lens.  It&#8217;s a <a href='http:\/\/www.adorama.com\/PRO50063XX.html' target=_blank>ProOptic 500mm f\/6.3 Manual Focus, T-Mount Mirror Lens<\/a>, which &#8230; is essentially a telescope that mounts onto your camera.  Because it&#8217;s a reflector lens, it&#8217;s actually fairly short, and not weighty at all, so the camera is fine mounted to a tripod (rather than having to mount the lens to the tripod).  We&#8217;re still waiting on a <a href='http:\/\/www.adorama.com\/BOW2X.html' target=_blank>Bower SLY2X 2x T-Mount Telephoto Extender for T-Mount Lenses<\/a> (it was on back-order).  With that 2x extender, we&#8217;ll have a 1,000mm lens!<\/p>\n<div align=center clear=both><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/16409099734\" target=_blank title=\"Skyway Drive 281 by wishiwerebaking, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8748\/16409099734_2c6b4cedc5_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Skyway Drive 281\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=Indent>What does this mean for our photography?  Well, first off, it means well be using the tripod a whole lot more frequently, as it&#8217;s nearly impossible to shoot a non-stabilized 500mm lens, never mind trying that with a 1,000mm lens.  Second, it means we&#8217;ll be able to get a lot more detail out of our pictures of hummingbirds or the moon or anything else we can think of which would be better much closer in.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>It&#8217;s quirky, and has a very narrow depth-of-field, but it&#8217;s also quite nice to sit here in bed with the camera set up next to the bed, focused upon the hummingbird feeder.<\/p>\n<div align=center clear=both><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/16838455947\" target=_blank title=\"Skyway Drive 286 by wishiwerebaking, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7724\/16838455947_7d719c1fe8_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"494\" alt=\"Skyway Drive 286\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=Indent>Enjoy the rest of your weekend!<\/p>\n<p class=Indent><i>-D<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, our favorite camera store was having a sale the other day, and we picked up a new lens. It&#8217;s a ProOptic 500mm f\/6.3 Manual Focus, T-Mount Mirror Lens, which &#8230; is essentially a telescope that mounts onto your camera. Because it&#8217;s a reflector lens, it&#8217;s actually fairly short, and not weighty at all, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}