In reply to Colin Wood :
Now you've got me thinking... Never a good thing. B&H has 50 sheet boxes of T max 100 4x5 film for $240. I wonder how hard it would be to tray develop that at home?
I fear we have wandered a bit off topic. 
In reply to Colin Wood :
Now you've got me thinking... Never a good thing. B&H has 50 sheet boxes of T max 100 4x5 film for $240. I wonder how hard it would be to tray develop that at home?
I fear we have wandered a bit off topic.
In reply to 1988RedT2 :
I'll allow this tangent. 
So last night I was thinking, I shoot track side and usually only have a 70-200 mm lens and I always wish I had a bit more reach. That turned into some googling and on Thursday a 200-600 mm lens is showing up from a lens rental service. I have not shot on a lens that long before and have had my eye on one to use when we go to the FIRM so lets call this a trial.
Chris Tropea said:So last night I was thinking, I shoot track side and usually only have a 70-200 mm lens and I always wish I had a bit more reach. That turned into some googling and on Thursday a 200-600 mm lens is showing up from a lens rental service. I have not shot on a lens that long before and have had my eye on one to use when we go to the FIRM so lets call this a trial.
You dog! Everyone at the track will be enviously ogling your big lens!
Also, with a 70-200 f/2.8 and a 1.4x converter and a crop sensor, I can shoot action from the top rows of the infield bleachers.
In reply to David S. Wallens :
That's some nice range. A good reminder that teleconverters are a thing–and that I should buy one.
Welp, delivery of my rental lens has been delayed due to the weather in the southeast so I'm not sure if I'll have it in time for the race. Fingers crosssed it gets here tomorrow or I'm back to my 70-200.
In reply to Colin Wood :
TC's seem like something best purchased knowing how well they work with a specific lens. It seems like some are great with one lens and not great with a lot of others.
In reply to pres589 (djronnebaum) :
That's good to know, thanks for the heads up.
In reply to pres589 (djronnebaum) :
Yeah, not all converters work with all lenses. My Canon 1.4x converter only works with specific Canon lenses.
pres589 (djronnebaum) said:In reply to Colin Wood :
TC's seem like something best purchased knowing how well they work with a specific lens. It seems like some are great with one lens and not great with a lot of others.
I made this mistake when buying my 70-200. I wanted to save some money and got the f/4 lens. Turns out you can only use the TC with the f/2.8 lens so now I can either sell my current lens and buy a f/2.8 and a TC or save up and buy a longer lens like a 200-600 for about the same money.
The other thing about teleconverters is that they hurt the image quality, both from the fact that there are more lens elements that the light has to pass through, but also because you are magnifying the image that went through the original lens, which means you are also magnifying all of the imperfections in that lens. There's a case to be that for some combinations of lenses (and cameras with enough megapixels), the resulting image is of similar quality to just digitally cropping the center out of the image taken with the normal lens. Yes, you need to do it manually in Lightroom afterwards, but that also means you don't pay the f/stop penalty for the teleconverter either.
At least for today (Friday), I’m bringing my Canon gear–7D MkII, etc.–plus this: my Olympus XA2. It has a 35mm lens so good in the infield, garages, etc.
Good news everyone, I emailed Lensrentals about the delay on the delivery for my rental and they overnighted me a replacement that will be delivered today. I was shocked by the customer service and speed of communication.
In reply to David S. Wallens :
You should buy my Yashica T4!
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