Nik goes a bit crazy when looking for lenses on eBay. Apart from buying coffee cups by mistake, he has a tendency to turn all hot and sweaty over long lens. Clearly it is a penile envy issue, further evidenced by his suggestion of the title for this post.
Usually, I am able to dissuade him from purchasing replica willies, which will look and act ridiculous on our tiny Panasonic cameras; but I failed to stop his latest acquisition, a 400mm Sigma lens originally designed to sit on a Canon film camera.
Notice the slight droop at the end; Nik assures me that this is his normal experience.
The lens cost him thirty pounds, and the adapter to make it work on a Panasonic double the price; but now he has an 800mm effective length lens, with plans to knock that up to 1600mm with a 2x adapter. And why on earth would he want such a beast? Apparently so he can sit on his balcony and capture the antics of the Russian tourists on the beach, such as the below which he proudly sent me this morning:
The image quality is not that great, but you can’t expect much for thirty pounds, and, given the subject matter, a razor-sharp image might offer more than we would wish to see.
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2011-04-20| genuinej saysIt’s very marginal whether that ’s a droopy end. I certainly wouldn’t want to compete with anything of that dimension.
2011-04-21| Pete saysAre you referring to the lens, or the … errr …. other picture?
2011-04-27| J.D. saysQuestions: #1 Isn’t that a tripod mount on the lens collar? if so, any idea why it’s not being used? #2 I thought Russian women were generally skinny and hot, so whassup with that photo?
2011-04-27| Spike says#1 Not used; either because aesthetically I wanted the lens to be unencumbered with adjacent objects along the length of the barrel, in the style of Hockney, or because I couldn’t be arsed moving the tripod mount from the base of the camera to the lens.
#2 Distortion due to the tripod being mounted in the wrong place.