[LRflex] Re: 560 telyt 6.8 R8?
- From: Doug Herr <wildlightphoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:51:24 -0400 (EDT)
A few samples of what the 560 can do:
http://www.wildlightphoto.com/560r68.html
Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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>From: tedgrant@xxxxxxx
>Sent: Jul 25, 2010 11:48 PM
>To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [LRflex] Re: 560 telyt 6.8 R8?
>
>Well I don't know that I'd refer to them as beasts as they're excellent lenses
>for shooting the Olympics, Commonwealth Games, Pan American Games, World Track
>& Field Championships, NFL, CFL Football and any number of other sports events.
>Not to forget high school foot ball and baseball, I don't think I need to go
>on.
>But my first encounter with the 400 6.8 was at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer
>Olympics and it captured smashing great images shooting wide open and not more
>than stopped down one stop! .
>
>The 560mm was purchased sometime later when on assignment in Halifax, Nova
>Scotia, Canada on assignment shooting images of the Halifax harbour and the
>shipping action there-in!
>Once again, not a beast, hand holdable and a damn fine lens used mainly wide
>open or one stop down!
>
>When the 280mm 2.8 became available I traded them both in and bought the lens
>& a 1.4 extender making the 280 2.8 into a 400 f4.0! Still have it since it
>first came out, only now I have both extenders and I can make it into a 800mm
>f.8 and on a monopod it's a dynamite image cutter!
>
>Add the Leica macro adapter if you want to shoot some wild stuff and it's pure
>magic for close-ups! And exceptional images of dew drops on the grass blades
>of my garden! I'm not kidding! :-)
>cheers,
>Dr. ted
>tedgrantphoto.com
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