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I’m thinking yam or sweet potato.

I, too, bow before your skills.

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damn, I should have paid more attention to shooting when I took a snapshot of my cthulhu pizza

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Soosh, now that is the kind of stuff that if I were to forward it to anyone I knew, they would say, “Where the HELL do you find this shit?”.

dude’s a critically acclaimed film maker and one of my heroes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Hertzfeldt

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a stapler’s gotta eat.

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this is my favorite extreme macro shot. 100mm macro with a 50mm prime reversed. These are the little globes on the underside of a sage leaf that hold the oils.

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(this is putting me in mind of that George Washington song)

Six Foot Twenty, Weighed a Fucking Ton

Never heard that before. That’s messed up in a beautiful way.

‘Hey man, I heard he has, like, 30……” 🙂

my spoon is too big

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I use my 100-400 for macro sometime. I have to stand 40 feet away and jiggle my left leg.

(this is putting me in mind of that George Washington song)

Six Foot Twenty, Weighed a Fucking Ton

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I’ve got no problem hand-holding my 100-400 in daylight hours, even with the IS off. This was taken at about 150mm, f/7.1, in a small boat, handheld.

400mm is a hell of a lot harder under those circumstances, but doable. This was handheld at f/5.6, 400mm on a small boat. Absolutely all the shots didn’t come out like this, but enough did.

If I can do that in a boat at 400mm, I’m confident 200mm without IS on dry land is doable.

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Have you looked at the 70-200 f/4 L non-IS from Canon? It’s less than the 50-135 and from everything I have read, is as sharp or sharper than the f/2.8 versions.

One thing I’ve noticed, you show up with one of those white lenses, everybody immediately assumes you’re from the press or some official reason. It’s fun.

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yeah, exactly that. program number of exposures, length, etc. I think you can set them to vary the aperture, too. Canon makes one, but as you might guess, it’s not exactly cheap. There’s a Chinese knockoff on ebay, though, that is about 1/3 the price that I want to give a shot.

I’ve got one $16 plain remote release cord that’s a cheap Chinese number that I one time managed to close in the door of my car with the release part hanging about four inches above the pavement. I drove that way for well over 300 miles in below freezing weather in heavy snow & sleet before realizing it was dangling out there. It worked like a charm after I wiped it off.

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I don’t think of things in equivalents, I guess, because when I first got serious with an SLR, it was a digital with the crop factor. I had a K1000 in college with a couple of lenses, but I have no idea know what they were.

I use my Tokina 12-24 on my EOS film body. It may be crop factor only, but it’s not like the mirror hits or anything. It vingettes all to hell & back at the wide end, but even that can be useful

But the other thing for me is that I’ve got a great 28-75 zoom. So I wouldn’t think of getting a zoom that started at 50 and only went to 135 if I could have 70-200. A 50 f/1.4 prime is another story.

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Tokina 50-135mm f/2.8

I love my Tokina 12-24, but the 50-135mm length strikes me as really random. The f/2.8 is nice, but for the money, I’d go with the Canon 70-200 f/4 L, which, if I ever get around to having enough spare cash to buy another lens, will most likely be my choice.

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Awesome, thanks for posting that!

I’ve got my eye on a 3rd party timer remote. I’ll let you know what I think if I pick one up.

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That 100mm macro lens should have really good bokeh, because it is almost impossible to get everything in focus when doing a true macro (1:1) shot with that kind of lens.

It also seems to make any bug move twice a fast, go in a different direction or simply fly away right before it is in focus. 🙂

I’ve got a 180 macro. Holy hell that thing can be frustrating.

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Elsinore, can you take my entry out of the contest? It really doesn’t fit.

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