Chris... Posted December 12, 2018 Share #1 Posted December 12, 2018 Thought I’d ask on here first if anyone wants it. Canon 300mm f/4L non IS $500 shipped and PayPal all of the bird pics I post are taken with this lens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jsharr ★ Posted December 12, 2018 Popular Post Share #2 Posted December 12, 2018 What colors do you have besides white? 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petitepedal ★ Posted December 12, 2018 Share #3 Posted December 12, 2018 Why are you selling? Upgrading? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinneR ★ Posted December 12, 2018 Share #4 Posted December 12, 2018 I'll give you a buck for the tray of coins. Is that a doll off to the right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris... Posted December 12, 2018 Author Share #5 Posted December 12, 2018 1 hour ago, petitepedal said: Why are you selling? Upgrading? Yes, I just bought this 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groupw Posted December 12, 2018 Share #6 Posted December 12, 2018 I'd be interested if my budget wasn't so tight right now.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted December 12, 2018 Share #7 Posted December 12, 2018 7 minutes ago, dennis said: I'll give you a buck for the tray of coins. Is that a doll off to the right? jar of sea shells is my bet. How much for the ear phones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tizeye Posted December 12, 2018 Share #8 Posted December 12, 2018 Now we will be able to see inside the beaks of the birds! ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted December 12, 2018 Share #9 Posted December 12, 2018 1 minute ago, Tizeye said: Now we will be able to see inside the beaks of the birds! ? great, Chris will post pics of spiders inside bird mouths now! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinneR ★ Posted December 12, 2018 Share #10 Posted December 12, 2018 3 minutes ago, jsharr said: jar of sea shells is my bet. How much for the ear phones? Shells? wtf? $.90 on the tray of coins. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tizeye Posted December 12, 2018 Share #11 Posted December 12, 2018 Unfortunately, it WILL fit my Sony with an adapter, but I am going the opposite end for next lens. Yesterday took product photos of a couple of lens to list on eBay which should cover about 75% the cost of the Sony 24mm 1.4. Getting rid of the 24-70 f4 zoom will take me to full prime in that range. Delaying the 400mm range but can rent it cheaply at a local camera/lens rental center for occasional usage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted December 12, 2018 Share #12 Posted December 12, 2018 4 minutes ago, dennis said: Shells? wtf? $.90 on the tray of coins. Yes. Sea shells Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris... Posted December 12, 2018 Author Share #13 Posted December 12, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinneR ★ Posted December 12, 2018 Share #14 Posted December 12, 2018 14 minutes ago, Chris... said: Send me the coins and I'll keep your weird shell lamp our little secret. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted December 12, 2018 Share #15 Posted December 12, 2018 That's a very excellent lens - for those who have the urge or love of truly excellent photography. I used to be heavily into cameras and multiple big lenses and developing the pictures - a local weekly newspaper used to hire me to occasionally shoot local events like carnivals or the guy running through the streets with the Olympic Torch. Then I got older, didn't have the time and didn't like crawling through Egyptian pyramids and mastabas, etc. on vacations with lots of equipment. First I compromised to a relatively low-res mini VHS camcorder that took 640x480 stills then upgraded to an excellent 2"x2"x4" dual camera/camcorder - phone pics were not good enough yet. Then it got to the point where the video and stills on the latest smartphones were good enough quality for my memories, even in dim light. So cheap me decided to splurge more than my normal minor-brand smartphone for $150 last March when Tracfone dropped the Samsung Galaxy S7 to $429 from $629 which was previously $859 - it's $349 now. A $40, 128 GB SD Card meant I had more than the storage I needed for a couple weeks worth of vacations, etc. Before buying I went on YouTube and watched the side-by-side videos and stills comparing the latest phones, Note 9 (comes with two lenses - one for zoom), etc. to the Galaxy S7. The improvements in the newest phones were negligible and the S7's quality sufficed. Here are a couple camera and screen caps, where the large pics are resized to much smaller versions of the orig. 4032x3024 pixels: Goldendoodle Jake and me on a walk. In cropped images of the original, you can see the detail in the grass, asphalt, stones, Jake, my jeans and shoes, etc. and the fact I didn't shave: In bad light - bright light coming in through a window behind the photo subjects, the automatic settings adjusted enough to get a good picture - and preserve details like the happy birthday, etc. decorations on the cake: The camera takes great pictures in dim light. In the following video I didn't yet know that you can manually adjust camera focus on the fly. Even so, the attempts to get 10x zoomed images of our blonde Adam in the very back left side of his Saint Philip Neri Elementary School Orchestra in May, 2018 yielded ok results - these are all video caps of the 1920 x 1080 video and appear much brighter here than in real life where the girl in the left rear of the first picture below (slightly zoomed) was very much in shadow. Otherwise the video is fine. Here are caps of a handheld-while-walking 1920x1080 video of 10 year-old Adam, up to 30 feet off the ground (wearing a harness), playing American Ninja Warrior and struggling to complete the last phase of the Spider Monkey Adventure at Wisp Resort in Western MD on July 1: Adam scared the crap out of his mother by doing a look-ma-no-hands return to the base via a zip line: Here's the whole video done with my Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphone: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petitepedal ★ Posted December 12, 2018 Share #16 Posted December 12, 2018 I wish I had the $$$ for the lens and a camera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted December 12, 2018 Share #17 Posted December 12, 2018 How much for the desk? What are the dimensions? Any color options other than teal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shotgun Posted December 14, 2018 Share #18 Posted December 14, 2018 That lens is useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris... Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share #19 Posted December 14, 2018 16 hours ago, shotgun said: That lens is useless. You should buy it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shotgun Posted December 15, 2018 Share #20 Posted December 15, 2018 On 12/14/2018 at 11:18 AM, Chris... said: You should buy it I forgot to finish my sentence. It's useless to me with Sony cameras. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tizeye Posted December 16, 2018 Share #21 Posted December 16, 2018 1 hour ago, shotgun said: I forgot to finish my sentence. It's useless to me with Sony cameras. One word...Metabones But yes, I so prefer native FE mount over adapters. While I haven't check the older A mount, Sony doesn't have an FE 300 prime. I have my eyes on the 100-400, but there is a decent lens rental shop locally and will rent it a couple times before I pull the trigger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted December 16, 2018 Share #22 Posted December 16, 2018 How do you attach it to an iPhone? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted December 16, 2018 Share #23 Posted December 16, 2018 5 minutes ago, Randomguy said: How do you attach it to an iPhone? However, I've seen some pretty good photos from using IPhones and spotting scopes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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