{"id":19973,"date":"2018-07-31T19:43:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T19:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=19973"},"modified":"2018-07-31T19:43:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T19:43:16","slug":"still-a-valuable-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=19973","title":{"rendered":"Still a valuable lens&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17031\" src=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-17-at-10.22.30-PM-960x637.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-17-at-10.22.30-PM-960x637.png 960w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-17-at-10.22.30-PM-150x99.png 150w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-17-at-10.22.30-PM-270x179.png 270w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-17-at-10.22.30-PM-600x398.png 600w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-17-at-10.22.30-PM-880x584.png 880w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-17-at-10.22.30-PM-580x384.png 580w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-17-at-10.22.30-PM-350x232.png 350w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-17-at-10.22.30-PM-400x265.png 400w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-17-at-10.22.30-PM-370x245.png 370w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-17-at-10.22.30-PM-500x331.png 500w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-17-at-10.22.30-PM-750x497.png 750w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-17-at-10.22.30-PM.png 1017w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At a workshop a couple of years ago, I shot this photo of a friend in Arches N.P. \u00a0I was amazed then and still am today. \u00a0This was the Fujifilm XF 100-400 zoom hand held at 1\/15th of a second at an equivilent 600 mm!!!!! \u00a0You can see every thread, hand held!!!!! \u00a0That&#8217;s why I now no longer carry any of \u00a0their long zooms except this lens!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This lens is the equivilent of a 150-600mm krange zoom, and it also does remarkable close-ups, as well!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18003\" src=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/400-and-500D-960x639.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/400-and-500D-960x639.jpg 960w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/400-and-500D-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/400-and-500D-270x179.jpg 270w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/400-and-500D-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/400-and-500D-880x586.jpg 880w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/400-and-500D-580x386.jpg 580w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/400-and-500D-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/400-and-500D-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/400-and-500D-370x246.jpg 370w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/400-and-500D-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/400-and-500D-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/400-and-500D.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..and with this essentially 1:1 \u00a0(life-size) shot the working distance was almost a yard away!!!!! \u00a0Once again this was &#8220;hand-held&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I rest my case!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blessings,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; At a workshop a couple of years ago, I shot this photo of a friend in Arches N.P. \u00a0I was amazed then and still am today. \u00a0This was the Fujifilm XF 100-400 zoom hand held at 1\/15th of a second at an equivilent 600 mm!!!!! \u00a0You can see every thread, hand held!!!!! \u00a0That&#8217;s why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19975,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19973\/revisions\/19975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}