Ive found the lens for me

[kipper]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... otohosting

She's a beauty isn't she. For that price they even through in a 2x teleconvertor.

4 elements in 3 groups!@!@!#!$!!@!!#!!###!

[digitor]

And it's a whopping f9.9-f16 wide open (without the teleconverter) In fact, I suspect it might be fixed aperture. Did somebody mention they were looking for a cheap footy lens??

Cheers

[kipper]

I think you could shoot action shots from the other side of the oval.

[trebs]

Crikey..
With that lens I could shoot footy over there from my office here, in Belgium...
As long as I had a pause button to make the players stand still.

Trebs.

[digitor]

Crikey..
With that lens I could shoot footy over there from my office here, in Belgium...
As long as I had a pause button to make the players stand still.

Trebs.

Crikey bloke! Is that a well known Belgian expression, or are you taking a leaf out of Steve Irwin's book? First post I recall seeing from Belgium, hello Trebs and welcome. Have an Elephant beer for me!

Cheers

[leek]

Have an Elephant beer for me!

Elephant Beer is Danish (Carlsberg Brewery)...

Belgium is the beer-lovers paradise... They have much better beers than Elephant Beer...

Sorry... But I'm a beer fanatic...

Welcome trebs...

[digitor]

Have an Elephant beer for me!

Elephant Beer is Danish (Carlsberg Brewery)...

Belgium is the beer-lovers paradise... They have much better beers than Elephant Beer...

Sorry... But I'm a beer fanatic...

Welcome trebs...

No need to apologise, I never knew that - I agree there is much better beers in Belgium than Elephant - it's just the only one I could remember the name of that I had there. I spent a week there quite a few years ago, and it seems like I tried plenty. Even a cherry beer of some sort, kind of a weird reddish colour...

Cheers

[Nikkofan]

Elephant Beer is Danish (Carlsberg Brewery)...

Belgium is the beer-lovers paradise... They have much better beers than Elephant Beer...

Sorry... But I'm a beer fanatic...

Sorry Leek, but I'm actually Danish (or was, pre-naturalisation) and I have to totally disagree. Elephant Beer rules!

[trebs]

Thanks for the welcome,

Digitor. I'm a Brit. Living here in Belgium for my sins. So yes, I have that quirky twist on words.

As for beer. Yeah, we've over 300 types here. Not bad choice really.
And yes we've an "elephant" beer here, a locally brewed one called Delerium Tremens. Great stuff. The Cherry one.. there are a few types of those too. A great summer beer. very refreshing. Damn, I could talk beer all day but this is a photography forum.

Don't forget the choc and waffles either. This small blot on the European mainland is pretty famous for those calorie filled delights too.


Trebs.

[redline]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3343&item=7513963689&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW#ebayphotohosting

She's a beauty isn't she. For that price they even through in a 2x teleconvertor.

4 elements in 3 groups!@!@!#!$!!@!!#!!###!

Hi Kipper,
you didn't win the nikon 600 f/5.6 on ebaY? i thought you wanted to pick that up

[gstark]

Have an Elephant beer for me!

Elephant Beer is Danish (Carlsberg Brewery)...

And then Sigma buys the empties to use for their lenses, right?

[kipper]

Redline, I did but I wasn't going to pay $1700 for a lens that was bought on ebay only a few months earlier for $800. The stupid yank can have it

[yeocsa]

Hi Kipper,

a better alternative to that vivitar lens would be to use a spotting scope. some photographers (especially those bird watchers first and then as a photographer second) like to use spotting scope. While spotting scope does not offer the flexibility, top-notch images like Nikon primes, they do produce acceptable pictures.

http://www.buytelescopes.com/container. ... edge_1.htm

regards,

Arthur

[Deano]

Or...

You could build one yourself with a hand full of magnifying glasses and some downpipe from Bunnings.

Cheers
Dean

[sirhc55]

Or. . .

Take up shooting birds that are anything from 5' to 6' tall and you would not have to worry about a long prime

[birddog114]

kipper,
Bird stalkers always uses a big long zoom, I knew you're on the trail to search for one suitable with your desires but watch out, it ain't cheap and demands lot of stuff to use with it.
I was thinking about it while ago but dumped that idea cos many factors stopped me in acquisition one, few among of those factors are:
one: I'll be rarely use it,
two: bulky and hard to carry around with other gears,
three: I'll have the 300/VR with TCs instead of.
fourth: people scared off me and run away, (I love people too)
fifth: 17 or 22 feet boat is also on my wish list to catch up with our killakoala

[Glen]

Or. . .

Take up shooting birds that are anything from 5' to 6' tall and you would not have to worry about a long prime

Best suggestion I have heard yet

[the foto fanatic]

As for beer. Yeah, we've over 300 types here. Not bad choice really.
And yes we've an "elephant" beer here, a locally brewed one called Delerium Tremens. Great stuff. The Cherry one.. there are a few types of those too. A great summer beer. very refreshing. Damn, I could talk beer all day but this is a photography forum.
Trebs.

This world is full of coincidences. I'd never heard of Delirium Tremens (the beer) until I read this thread.
Yesterday, I was at my local buying some Schneider Weissbier and there it was - lovely ceramic bottle, rather expensive at $8.50, and a whopping 9.7% alcohol by volume! Hence the name, I guess.