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A horse of a lens

Published by Bruce on November 21, 2006 in Photography. Tags: humor, nikon, Photography.

The AF-S Zoom-Nikkor ED 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G IF DX VR is a great lens (if you can find one). This isn't a review (for that, see here or here), but I'd like to share one aspect of user experience with you.

My Nikon D70 includes a shoulder strap. Worn over the shoulder the 18-200mm lens naturally points downward, and the movement of walking is enough to cause to zoom to creep. The following image (obtained under strict laboratory conditions) visually explains why I have dubbed my new lens "the horse".

Creep
The horse is excited by walking

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3 responses to “A horse of a lens”

1 Di
Nov 21st, 2006 at 1:34 pm Quote

Ummmm thanks for the imagery. I have a Canon EOS 350D with a 75-300mm lens. I'll never be able to look at it in quite the same way while out walking.

Hey, loved your photographs ... despite the terrible wave of homesickness they brought on.
2 Bruce
Nov 21st, 2006 at 7:00 pm Quote

Yeah, sorry about that Di... didn't mean to ruin the Platonic relationship you had with your lens. And then I made you homesick. How can I make up for that?

I see from your blog you hail from Dunedin; I spent 6 years at Uni there but have few photos to show for it. Now I'm back in NZ it's hard to stop taking pictures—you only really appreciate a place when you've been away for a while. Wellington has a great cafe for Belgian beer and muscles, by the way.
3 Di
Nov 23rd, 2006 at 7:03 am Quote

I'll survive ... :)

I was at Otago from 1999 till mid-2002, one of those belated degrees and did the same thing, not many photographs. I've lived all over ... Cromwell, Te Anau and Blenheim as well.

I'm looking forward to getting back home, hopefully there will be a big visit 2007 - I need a New Zealand fix. Meanwhile, it sounds like the Belgians are everywhere ... a friend wrote in from a trip to America, saying that she'd eaten in a Belgian cafe the night before.

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