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Still trying to find a use for the 50-200mm

Started Apr 25, 2014 | Photos
TJL LTFF
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Still trying to find a use for the 50-200mm
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I keep trying different things to point it at:

Any suggestions on anything else?

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hootsmon
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Re: Still trying to find a use for the 50-200mm

TJL LTFF wrote:

I keep trying different things to point it at:

Any suggestions on anything else?

That is a very pleasing image.  I like how the background is rendered.  And I liked how the little bug positioned himself right at the rule-of-thirds point

Keep doing what you're doing, I reckon.

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Re: Still trying to find a use for the 50-200mm

TJL LTFF wrote:

I keep trying different things to point it at:

Any suggestions on anything else?

How about any one of the very many billions of things that exist in this amazing world? It's just about your imagination not a lens ☺

Adrian

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TJL LTFF
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Re: Still trying to find a use for the 50-200mm

northlondon43 wrote:

How about any one of the very many billions of things that exist in this amazing world? It's just about your imagination not a lens ☺

Adrian

Great advice. My imagination at the moment seems stuck in wide angle; thus the need for much practice with the longer focal length - to widen my shallow imagination while narrowing my field of view.

It's all great fun, though.

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Re: Still trying to find a use for the 50-200mm

TJL LTFF wrote:

northlondon43 wrote:

How about any one of the very many billions of things that exist in this amazing world? It's just about your imagination not a lens ☺

Adrian

Great advice. My imagination at the moment seems stuck in wide angle; thus the need for much practice with the longer focal length - to widen my shallow imagination while narrowing my field of view.

It's all great fun, though.

When stuck in a 'photographic funk' there is one thing I like to do. Take your camera and sit somewhere in one place and come up with creative compositions, it will open your eyes to what is around you. You can set a time, focal length, distance, anything really.

Try shooting landscapes at 135-200mm,  most of the landscapes I shoot over the past several years are at these focal lengths.

Happy Shooting!

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Re: Still trying to find a use for the 50-200mm

Thanks - I'll try that.

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Optimum sharpness range

From my tests , the 50mm end is tack sharp wideopen at all distances but the 200mm end is at its sharpest at around backyard distances (from about 12 feet to "across the road") . it`s very soft at closest focal distance and also not exactly tack sharp at infinity unless at F8 but at down the garden it`s vert sharp even wideopen so with the superb 20Mp sensor (for cropping) and a good RAW converter, it`d make a really good Birder at optimum distances ..

Should also be good for portraits, Wedding and street candids etc at all focal lengths as these tend to be within the optimum sharpness distance range (or that`s my findings anyway)

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