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Inexpensive long-range zoom lenses

Inexpensive long-range zoom lenses

From the course: Photo Gear Weekly

Inexpensive long-range zoom lenses

- For this installment of Photo Gear Weekly, I am hanging out, relaxing a little bit at Central Park in New York City. And specifically, at a wonderful little pond. One of my favorite places just to hang out in the city. We've got sailboats, radio-controlled sailboats out on the pond and I wanted to photograph them. Well, sometimes these photographic opportunities sort of sneak up on you. You can't anticipate everything you're going to need, especially when it comes to lenses. And what I find is it can be very helpful to have a lens that covers a tremendous range, a tremendous focal length range. So I've got lots of options. Now, to be sure, when a lens is covering a wide range of focal lengths, there is a good chance it's not going to be the sharpest lens in the world. But that utility can really make up for that lack of sharpness. You may have noticed in this case, I'm actually using this lens handheld and even at 600 millimeters, I'm able to do that for two reasons. One, of course,…

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