Actually borrowlenses.com. This great camera equipment rental company came by the Palo Alto Camera Club meeting last week for a few hours to let us play will all sorts of fun toys. I spent most of my time at the extremes – from 400mm (the Canon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS) down to 15mm (the Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye).
Leonard checking out the 400m cannon.
Here’s an example of what you get with an expensive 400mm lens (on my Canon 40D). This is a picture of an Avocet up to his knees in mud in the Palo Alto Baylands. Below that is a 1:1 crop (showing you the actual pixels) – check out the detail in the feathers, and of course how dark and thick the muck is.
Avocet in Mud – full image
Avocet in Mud – tight 1:1 pixel crop
Now some 15mm Fisheye silliness. I couldn’t help but aim it at myself. For these pictures I think the front of the lens was only a couple of inches from my face. These two were taken with the lens on a Canon 5D Mark II.
Lots of room for a brain.
Lots of room for other stuff.
And finally, this one of the hood badge on my Porsche. Taken with the 15mm Fisheye on my 40D.
