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How do you use your extreme focal lengths...(was: Re: [OM] a purely hypo

Subject: How do you use your extreme focal lengths...(was: Re: [OM] a purely hypothetical question... -not- OT!)
From: Thomas Heide Clausen <T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 21:48:11 +0100
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 12:10:15 -0800
"George M. Anderson, Photographer" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My opinion FWIW:
> 

<SNIP>
 
> The 350 is also a great lens, but I think the 250 is a bit better,
> for what they so. Course I now have a 500/4 when I pop the 1.4 on.
> And the 2x is actually quite useable on the 350. In fact I have
> stacked both at once giving pretty darn good results as a 1000/8.

Uhmm...what are you using such long lenses for, I wonder? 

The longest I own is the 300/4.5 - and I think I have taken about 25
frames with thatone. It is nice for those few times I need to reach
far, but I could not justify anything more expensive (as both the
250, 350 and 500 are). I also have the 1.4 teleconverter, but I have
yet to find reason to mount that on the 300mm.

I'm kinda curious as to which types of photography such "long"
(extreme?) focal lengths are being used for by fellow zuikoholics.
Are everyone bird/wildlife/motorsports photographers, or is it just
that big glass is facinating? Or, and most likely, perhaps I am just
missing out of something... :)

Please, enlighten me....

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