Tag: telescope

  • Extreme wildlife telephoto

    Extreme wildlife telephoto

    Telephoto tip: If you add enough converters and extenders, you don’t actually need a fancy lens. The original appeared on https://xkcd.com/1855/ (a web site perfectly suited to geeks, photographers or not).

  • Not really photo: History of the telescope

    photo credit: anthonycmaki Sometimes, during Summer time, it’s fine to switch to low gear and to wander far from the normal path of things. So, if you like lenses (specially long focal length primes), you may be interested in looking at the dinosaur age of tele-lenses: The Telescope era, which started in 1611 (nearly 400…