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

Subject: RE: How do you use your extreme focal lengths...(was: Re: [OM] a purely hypothetical question... -not- OT!)
From: "George M. Anderson, Photographer" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 13:18:02 -0800
I use real long focal lengths basically for 3 things:

* Wildlife
* Landscapes with nice big moons or suns
* Guided astrophotography (for which the Zuiko 350/2.8 is a well regarded
favorite of many - long, fast, coma and other distortion free)).

G

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Thomas Heide Clausen
> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 12:48 PM
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> Subject: How do you use your extreme focal lengths...(was: Re: [OM] a
> purely hypothetical question... -not- OT!)
>
>
> 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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