{"id":538,"date":"2007-03-15T21:19:24","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T02:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/15\/long-lenses\/"},"modified":"2008-12-31T19:02:46","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T00:02:46","slug":"long-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/15\/long-lenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing with long lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yesterday started out beautifully. It was almost 80°F in the sun, which was a welcome change from the cold New York winter, and I went to Peach Hill Park, which is an old apple orchard. I haven’t fixed the light leak in my one particular copy of a Spartus that’s my favorite landscape camera (it’s not the cool kind of leak, it washes out the whole frame), and I didn’t have time to load film holders, so 4×5 was out, too. Instead, I reached for my Hasselblad 501C\/M and noticed the 350mm lens that I’d only ever shot maybe 3 frames with. (For the record, I inherited both from my father; I’m not in the habit of buying Hasselblad lenses only to leave them in the closet for years.)<\/p>\n

I’m not a big fan of long lenses. Not that I hate them or anything, but they don’t do much for me unless I physically can’t get close enough to what I want to shoot, like at a show or a wedding. I tend to go for normal to moderately wide, even finding the standard "normal" 50mm on 35mm film to be a touch long. 350mm is generally outside of my visual consciousness. I figured I’d give myself a challenge and took only the one camera and lens to see what I could learn.<\/p>\n

I walked around and shot for about an hour and half and packed it in when it started raining. I took my time, shooting only 24 exposures, framing probably five shots for every one I took, really trying to get a feel for what this thing lends itself to. I think I failed. Other than being unweidly—the camera, lens, and hood together are longer than my forearm—I had no grand epiphanies. I don’t feel like I even got my foot in the door, but I’ll keep at it for a bit longer. For better or worse, it sure is different.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/b>: photos are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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