#telephoto zooms

[parachim]

Spotted an adolescent copperhead at the park today

[coffeenuts]

[illiterate-librarian]

I think I need a Sony Mavica FD-91

That's a lie

I know I need a Sony Mavica FD-91

I've known this for a long time...

[iso3200net]

Neighbouring hilltops

Monday in a vineyard is a good time to catch some lovely, summer-y photos of neighbouring hilltops.

Taken with ancient Konica-Minolta Dynax 7D digital camera, and Minolta AF Zoom 100‍–‍300mm F4.5‍–‍5.6 telephoto lens.

An ancient 6-megapixel camera means I have no space for cropping, but luckily, the long telephoto lens helped!

[thephoblographer]

Canon Has New Lens Patents, But Are They Worth The Wait?

Telephoto lenses are loved by various genres of photographers as they allow you to see distant objects in close proximity. Whether you are a wildlife photographer, a photojournalist, or even an event photographer, everyone has some use of these lenses in their day-to-day tasks. There are also super telephoto lenses, which encompass a much larger focal range and are great options for amateur and…

[briansolomonauthor]

Subtlety of Steam on Soft Evening

We were on our way to the Fox Meadows Creamery for ice cream and coffee. I made a slight detour via Strasburg, thinking we might just catch the 5pm train returning. As we approached Paradise Lane, we saw the train coming aross the cornfields. I pulled in and reached for my Nikon Z6. Since the weather had been very warm and humid, we were running the air-conditioning in the car. When I stepped…

[ricisidro]

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It's your #healthy #lucky day!

#Walking at least 30 minutes every day is good for your #health. That's a rare #rainbow appearance before #sunset today.

Shot on #iPhone14Pro using ultra-wide field of view (0.5x), normal field of view (1x) and 3x option zoom.

#HealthyPilipinas 💚

[karingottschalk]

Fujifilm Japan: Fujifilm unveils the latest development roadmap for interchangeable lenses designed for the GFX Series of mirrorless digital cameras – Press release

GF 55Fujifilm unveils the latest development roadmap for interchangeable lenses designed for the GFX Series of mirrorless digital cameras TOKYO, September 12, 2023 – FUJIFILM Corporation (President & CEO, Representative Director: Teiichi Goto) has unveiled the latest development roadmap for interchangeable GF lenses designed for the GFX Series of mirrorless digital cameras, which incorporate the…

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- 04.02.2023

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[coffeenuts]

[thesiliconfalcon]

[iso3200net]

Neighbouring hilltops

Monday in a vineyard is a good time to catch some lovely, summer-y photos of neighbouring hilltops.

Taken with ancient Konica-Minolta Dynax 7D digital camera, and Minolta AF Zoom 100‍–‍300mm F4.5‍–‍5.6 telephoto lens.

An ancient 6-megapixel camera means I have no space for cropping, but luckily, the long telephoto lens helped!

[swampjawn]

What happens when you let a film nerd make an anime?

Fuuga Yamashiro (山代風我) joined Science Saru in 2017 as an Assistant Production Manager during production of "Night Is Short, Walk on Girl." He was essentially Studio Co-founder Masaaki Yuasa's secretary, but he worked his way up to assistant director on "Keep Your Hands off Eizouken" and finally got to direct his own first full Anime series, Dandadan.

Having worked so closely with one of the greatest living auteur directors, you might think he would share that overpowering individual creative influence, but as he has pointed out in interviews himself, it's much the opposite.

Instead of relying on his own creative voice, which he doesn't seem confident about in interviews, he literally collects techniques from his favorite movies, breaking them down into storyboards and adding them to his arsenal to re-contextualize later. And as you may be able to tell from watching Dandadan, his biggest influences aren't anime and manga, but live action film -- something he seems to have studied obsessively.

And when you compare the anime to the original manga (which itself is already filled with references to old movies and TV) subtle adaptation choices make the deft application of techniques borrowed from other storytellers very clear. Every choice is made for a reason and furthers the story being told in some way; nothing is there for no reason. like the simple, controlled camera pans and tilts that make the serpoian spaceship feel cold and sterile, or the crazywackysilly, un-predictable wide-angle camera movements that intrude on that cold sterile world when turbo granny shows up.

In one interview during the production of "Keep Your Hands off Eizouken" Yamashiro pulls out his notebook where he had collected all these techniques and gives an example:

"There's a technique called 'Dolly Zoom', which is a technique that changes the perspective of the background while keeping the size of the subject." […] "In 'Cult of Chucky,' which I saw recently, there is a scene in which a long passageway is filmed in telephoto, while a wheelchair moves forward. The character is 'getting closer, but the viewer feels farther away'. This is the kind of thing I collect." […] "I'd like to combine these things in various ways and do it in animation." (I took some liberties with this, the translation was pretty rough)

And sure enough, that exact same type of dolly zoom rears its head in Dandadan as Okarun sprints away from Turbo Granny and the mouth of the tunnel stretches impossibly into the distance.

It may seem counterintuitive to ascribe too much importance to the creative vision of one person who specifically talks about his own lack of strong creative vision, (and to be clear, he's far from the only person playing a major role) but I think it's precisely that encyclopedic knowledge of film techniques and that pragmatic, meticulous attitude that may have acted as a stabilizing force for Yuasa, and that also provides some needed structure to a ball of pure energy like Dandadan, while still preserving its essence and the eclectic influences that it wears on its sleeve.

Also, mad respect for using the seventh installment of the Child's Play franchise as your example of a dolly zoom instead of, like, Vertigo, Jaws, or Goodfellas.

This is just a sliver of what I talk about in this full video! A minuscule piece of the pie! Some tiny little crumbs for the peasants! So if you consider yourself worthy, go watch the whole video. I think it's good.

Uhh also reblog! I spent way too long on that intro animation, so I need it. Bad.

[its-stimsca]

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[Image ID: 5 gifs showing off a miniature camera. Some of the gifs include one of those long lenses you snap onto the camera to make it zoom in more, I’m not fancy idk what they’re called sorry. (Edit: I have been informed they are called a telephoto lens!) End ID]

[ricisidro]

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Ahead of the expected debut of a #periscope  (optical #zoom) #telephoto camera system in #iPhone15ProMax in Sept 2023, #Apple is reportedly planning to bring the telephoto camera to both of #iPhone16 "Pro" models in 2024. #Huawei #HuaweiP30Pro released in Mar 2019 had periscope.

[lindagoesmushrooming]

hi linda :) im going to a redwood forest this weekend and there'll be tons of mushrooms. i'm new to photography, and i was hoping you could give some tips for photographing mushrooms? thank you!!

Yay for tons of mushrooms! Have fun! 😁

But oh god, where to start... Well, firstly it depends what you're using for photography. Is it a phone camera or semi-pro/pro camera? If it's a camera, then what kind of lens do you have?

A lot of mushrooms tend to be on the small side, so the best thing would be to have macro lens for your camera or a clip on macro lens for your phone (I don't have one myself, though).

I don't have a fancy macro lens but I've been using a Tamron 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di LD Macro lens for years that's both a telephoto and a macro lens. The only downside of it - I have to step back to take photos. The longer the lens, the longer the minimum shooting distance. So, if you use a phone or a lens that's, say 18-55mm, you can get really close to your object which also works very well for mushrooms. I find that some of the prettiest mushroom photos are taken from below when you can see the gills or the light making the cap transparent. You should be prepared to bend and crawl a lot. 😆 (Not photography related, but wear something you're not afraid to stain. Also - ticks. Be wary of those.)

If your equipment allows it, use large aperture. The smaller the number, the larger the aperture. Yes, it's weird like that. The larger the aperture, the more light is let in. F-stops of 1.4 to 5.6 are considered large apertures. A large aperture will give you a shallow depth of field (you know, when the object or only a part of it is in focus, but the background is all blurred out?). Luckily, mushrooms are small objects, so you don't necessarily need the largest aperture out there.

In my own experience, though, the coolest mushrooms (especially clusters of them) mock me and grow deep in the bushes or wherever I can't reach them/get close, so for such cases having a zoom lens can come in handy.

Some of the examples:

This is a recent pic I posted, taken with a Fujifilm hybrid (mirrorless) camera.

Not a mushroom, but still something small, taken with a Samsung phone (by my sister in law, not me, though).

Taken with a Nikon dslr, using the Tamron lens in its macro mode.

Taken with the same camera and lens, but using its telephoto mode (the mushrooms were located far from me).

I hope this helps at least a bit!