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

Subject: Re: How do you use your extreme focal lengths...(was: Re: [OM] apurely hypothetical question... -not- OT!)
From: "C.H.Ling" <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:56:03 +0800

Motor Sport Visions Photography wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 1/9/2003 Thomas Heide Clausen writes:
> 
> << Uhmm...what are you using such long lenses for, I wonder? <snip> Are
> everyone bird/wildlife/motorsports photographers >>
> 
> Speaking only for myself, yeah, I shoot some pictures of cars and really
> don't like the idea of being hit by them. That combined with tracks
> pushing us all further and further back, long glass is essential. There
> are often times that the 490mm (350/2.8 + 1.4A) really isn't enough.
> There are tracks, especially in Europe, that are called 600mm and 800mm
> tracks by photographers for good reason. With my E-10 covering the vast
> majority of my work between 35mm and 200mm now, almost all the film I
> shoot now on track is with the big white one. It gets more use than any
> lens I have ever owned. The Can*n 500 f4 seems to be a very popular
> weapon of choice these days (Stephen, you need one of those for your
> D60! <g>)

A 400mm may be enough as D60 has 1.6x mag.

C.H.Ling

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