For the shooter who has everything, here's that hard-to-find gift:

Can you image that thing with ETC on a GH4 ??? That would be a 5760mm equivalent !!!

Buy one of these http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nikon-Nikko...98745357?pt=Camera_Lenses&hash=item25941d690d and add a G6 and you'd have 2.5 times the focal length for $162,000 less.

Even my GH4 and the 600mm is a longer focal length at 1500mm in 4K mode and creates very competitive video images compared to anything that canon can deliver with that thing.

I have that exact combo and like this, https://vimeo.com/90916591 it competes very favorably with anything ever made.

Cheers
Pete
 
Last edited:
That's nice. I have the 800mm 5.6 ED AIS Nikkor. Pretty heavy piece of glass. Must have been fun hauling that up the mountain.
 
Yeah, that 800mm is twice as heavy. The 600mm is pretty heavy at 6 lbs, but still 30 lbs lighter than that 1200mm! The tripod and fluid head add another 12 lbs to the mix and is where most of the weight comes from.

Have you ever shot with one of the Panasonic GH cams in ETC mode on that 800mm monster? It would be a 3840mm equivalent. Heat waves are the bane of these extreme focal lengths though. If I ever win the lottery a 400mm f/3.5 might be the perfect mix of extreme focal length and low light ability for the weight.

Cheers,
Pete
 
No, I've never had it on anything with that narrow field of view, just a Canon 7D and 5D III. I can see the heat waves in your film, definitely a factor to consider. Also the transportation angle. I slip the 800 into a backpack as a carry-on item.
 
If I recall correctly, they only made a handful of these. Someone high-up at Canon musta been downing Sake with the engineers and said "Let's do it!"
 
c3hammer said:
Even my GH4 and the 600mm is a longer focal length at 1500mm in 4K mode and creates very competitive video images compared to anything that canon can deliver with that thing.
Click to expand...

Pete, that footage is magnificent! Some of my hunter friends would turn green with envy imagining "cross hairs" on those critters at that perspective. I enjoy seeing what you and others like you do in the way of video.

The "trophy" gets to walk away.
 
That is one big honking lens! The largest I've ever used was a 400 2.8 Nikkor to shoot football. It was a rental. At the expense of my employer.
 
Somewhere on the 'net is a story about a guy with a Canon XL-H1 (early HDV camera) who was shooting at a race track and came upon someone shooting with one of these puppies. He had a Canon adapter in his bag and convinced them to let him hang his camera off the back of that Howitzer. The camera has 1/3" sensors, so the effective focal length was ridiculously long. 8640mm!
 
Last edited:
Mitch Gross said:
Somewhere on the 'net is a story about a guy with a Canon XL-H1 (early HDV camera) who was shooting at a race track and came upon someone shooting with one of these puppies. He had a Canon adapter in his bag and convinced them to let him hang his camera off the back of that Howitzer. The camera has 1/3" sensors, so the effective focal length was ridiculously long. 8640mm!
Click to expand...

8640? jesus.

I was given a 400mm f6.3 lens, real cheap thing. Bought a crappy 2x tele converter to get 800mm, then stuck it on my GH4 and shot the moon in 4k. (2.3x crop making it 1840mm) then punched in on that to 200% to get 3680mm of zoom in 1080p and pointed it at the moon. LOTS OF FUN.

Problems you see are softness of the cheap lens, and obviously heat haze in the atmosphere.

http://vimeo.com/107911389
 
zijital said:
I slapped a Nikon 70-300mm lens on my Sony Z7U when Venus was transiting the sun back in 2012.

I wasn't zoomed in all of the way b/c I wanted to have a longer shot of the sun moving through the frame. I think the 1/3" to 8 perf / vista vision / "full frame 35mm" FOV conversion was around 7x, so it was the equivalent of 1,400mm lens.
http://youtu.be/fpM9caHyAjE?list=UUSE9nBbKL_Xdatmf2usX8Uw
Click to expand...

Weren't you worried about burning the sensor? Looks great though.
 
Aperture: f/32
Shutter: 1/10,000
ND: 1/64
Gain: -6db

So after cutting out like 99.9% of the light, not really worried. Maybe I should've been? I'm worried about lasers, seen videos online of cameras ruined by lasers at events. The sun I get in my viewfinder on a regular basis shooting whatever outside. Though I wouldn't point my camera at the sun for a long time w/o down cutting the light a lot.
 
The shutter and gain are digital reductions in light, the same amount still hits the sensor beyond the ND and the aperture... I wouldn't do it, but I guess yours still worked... maybe I'm paranoid.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top