OMFG O.O You gonna shoot details of a wrist watch of some guy standing 1km away from you? What are this tube's parameters? *picks up his jaw from the floor*

Let me help you with your jaw, and also pick up mine... hehehe

This is the zoom from 700mm to 4,000mm same target as the 28mm. http://www.pixelfoxentertainment.com/zoom

Well, certainly the zoom is absolutely stunning, but as was expected, at the cost of quality. High cost. It's too blurry/too much chromatic aberration for anything useful as to my taste. In contrast, I saw some 8000mm mirror lens for astrophotography which performed a bit better :)

15 to 60 X 4,000mm focal range 25ft to infinity.

Model: 78-1600
Magnification: 15-60x
Objective: 60mm
Lens Coating: Multi
Field of View (ft@1000yds / m@1000m): 150/50@15x; 38/13@60x
Exit Pupil: 4@15x / 1@60x
Close Focus: 25 ft.
Weight (oz/g): 48.5/1373
Length (in/mm): 17.5/445

Now that's what I call a HUGE lens!

I wanna see some photos with this baby. Must be good to have such a thing ^^'

These shots were taken the other day but FA was dead. this is the full range of zoom I have now lol from 28mm to 4,000mm in 3 lenses.http://www.pixelfoxentertainment.com/zoom

Honestly I'd rather a wide angle but ill see what I can get on a nice clear bright sunny day with it.
The tripod is a bit wobbly with it, a tenth of a millimeter of movement is like 10 feet at 100 yards with this thing, hence the remote, and even then ya can't even fart near it when you take the shot.

Wow, just....wow.

Would you believe it all cost me (NEW) less than 450$? (including the 28-80mm and 75-300mm lens) http://www.47stphoto.com/item.asp?invky=1831018 BUY EM before they're gone I keep tellin people, I got 2 sets one for me and one for a friend, they're 200+$ each everywhere else and they come with a 10 year free replacement guarantee from Tamron.

The 4,00mm lens when it came out was about $2,000.00, but now you can get it for about 200$, and the T mount is only like 15 for ANY camera on earth, I got my T mount for 9$ new on an ebay store.

Plus, http://www.47stphoto.com/ and http://www.cameraaddict.com/ are ok, I don't like http://www.cameraaddict.com/ so much because they try to sell you more shit (I wound up buying a 12 hr battery for the camera for 75 bucks just to shut the guy up) but 47th street is awesome, I highly recommend them, I had my lenses in 2 days, everything they push is good stuff and they get it to you fast, back the guarantees and are willing to talk to you about your order before you buy it if you have any questions what so ever.

Nice sites, thanks!

Howdy Willowfox,
That looks like a Bushnell Discoverer scope your using as a camera lens. I have the Swift instruments tele-Master purchased back in the '70s and the Tasco '07(which looks just like the Bushnell you have) I learned about the Swift scope from an article in Popular Science and bought it as a very inexpensive alternate to a dedicated photoghraphic telephoto lens and I have not regreted that purchase. I've had a blast with it especially at the airshows, hand held mind you. Shakes are always going to be problematic with high magnification but if you are able to use a high enough speed and steady enough mount, you won't even notice.

Its older than the Bushnell, it's the original designed Bosch & Lomb Discoverer, built in 85'
I can't shoot under 800 ISO/ASA but its great at 800-1600 and its fast in good lighting, its also very clear, Bosch & Lomb pioneered the nautical telescope back in the 1700 or so, the optical clarity and light gathering optics of their lenses were amazing for the time, but now, with direct bandpass compressed fiber optic build lenses, gas charged and better coatings and so on, they're kind of put to shame by lenses of the same value, but for their time, they were unsurpassed quality and workmanship I really enjoy shooting with Bosch and Lomb products, even if Bushnell bought most of the company out.
Bushnell has always been a favorite of mine for rifle scopes and range finders, I respect both companies and had I known they would have merged, I would have bought stocks in Bushnell lol.

That was the other name I was trying to think of. The same scope design was also seen under the Tasco name. Bausch and Lomb may still make the scope but it's distributed under different names. With all the advances in lens design and construction it kinda makes you wonder what kind of spotting scope with new capabilities they could make now.

I'm sure they can do serious awesome now adays ^.^

And all I want to do is find a way to lower your focus distance to 12 inches and point that at the nearest spider. :P

Well yeah, you see, there is just as much interesting stuff at 1" as there is at 1 mile, The 300mm i have is a telemacro, i can be 6ft away and get a perfect macro shot as if i were 2", its wacky, i love that lens, ^.^

It can do 1:1 at 6ft away? Or is it just close to 1:1?

Pretty sure its 1:1 i mean this was taken from 12 feet: http://willowfox.deviantart.com/art.....Macro-64241905

It's got a weird focal distance, like it focuses on a couple inches at a time when turned to the macro focus range

Pretty sure its 1:1 i mean this was taken from 12 feet: http://willowfox.deviantart.com/art.....Macro-64241905

That doesn't look 1:1, but that's not bad for 12ft.

Yeah its really weird getting used to this telemacro stuff, I want to take a pic of a flower and im like, oh, im too close... still too close.... still ah wtf, it sucks when you want to take something straight down though. I might pick this up http://www.bestlaptopbattery.com/b......s-Titan45X.htm this will help, if I do that, i'll have complete range from fish eye right up to 4,000mm because the bosch and lomb goes pretty much from about 300 or so mm right into 4,000 lol 4 lenses, any situation. ^o^

That seems like a good solution for getting stuff that's far away. I need to get some higher focal length lenses for birding and other wildlife (things bigger than my usual subjects) so I can get closeups far away.

But, I'm always going to be tempted to do macro stuff wherever I go. :P

I love macros, there is also a lens inverter for the eos, and macro extension tubes and so on, and for the cheap too, so I will prolly be swimming in photo fun come this summer ^.^

I'm currently using this for my macro stuff: http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/c.....p;modelid=7400

I love it.

I've been tossing around the idea of working with extension tubes to see what I can pull off with those.

But...one day I'll get my hands on: http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/c.....p;modelid=7325

And THAT will be a good day. :)

and hey its only $799.95 here: http://www.adorama.com/CA6528AF.html here when its : $1,354.95 at http://www.mobileplanet.com/p.aspx?.....artner=froogle I could never understand why some places charge so much more than others.
That is a nice lens, I'll never afford it lol, so I'll have to stick to my telemacro stuff, but that would be fun to play with, I'd like to see what kind of shots I could get at that range lol some day maybe.
I usedto have a macro lens for my minoltas I could focus on the scratches on the filter with it, but it was old and the light gathering optics sucked, you needed a ring flash with it and it was way too much of a pain to deal with, because it was so I dunno, weird to use I'd say, I never got anything good outta it bedides a couple floral shots.

Well i'm off to bed, g'night internets!

<,<......well i suppose now you really can see forever

Nope, only a few miles ^.^

blargs *removes scope from rifle* i'll bootleg this somehow

ther eis a slot inside on one of the optics for a disc i can put anything in it like a clear cross hair disc and make it into a scope ^o^ but id need an adjustable sight rail mount for it.
Buy one, they're cheap now, actually, I'd sell ya mine for 250$ if you REALLY want one.

<,, nah im sure i could just get on ou of the garage

Whew, When you have to have a tripod for the lens, not the camera, then you have one hell of a serious lens. Wish I had that setup a few years ago when I took my mountain goat picture: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/732558/ Everyone on the trail looked at me as if I was on crack as I had this pathetic little point and shoot wedged up (by hand) to a pair of binoculars. I got the shot, blurred and ugly, but at a few miles out the optics in the binoculars were still good and true. Had I had the two all arranged together on a singular tripod no touch remote setup, it would probably be better, but still with that outside blurring that a long lens often gets.

The shot of the moon I got was just a point n shoot held up to it before I got the mount for my other camera.
The lens is nice but its a pain in the ass to use, shakey as hell and you gotta use a crazy high ISO for it. Witch makes it grainy, its better used as a spotting scope really.

I wondered about that, heh. Does that camera use any stabilization? Or the lens?

uhm nope. lol
I wish it did. I just use a good tripod now it works but I can't take shots of anything that moves in any way :/

That sucks. My Olympus is tripod crazy too, then theres my Canon which has the stabilization and I can use any lens I had for it and Movement or no, It undid it. You ever seen the aftermarket steadycam arrays? or use any of them?

I used em for video not for stills, I like em they're great. I'd like to get a still one.