Interesting description of my 500 mm Nikkor lens + the Nikon TC-20E-II 2X teleconverter, Dan. Got a chuckle out of me anyway! Seems like everyone who had a Nikon camera body that they could mate to my lens took advantage of the opportunity to shoot the Old Bailey's Harbour light up close and personal! For those of you who didn't take a look through one of the cameras that were mated to the lens, here's about what you would have seen.
The photo above was actually shot last summer in the early morning when the light was better and showed off the vertigre on the copper roof of the old birdcage lantern room of the Old Bailey's Harbor light.
Here's what the 500 mm lens/Nikon F5 combination looks like in my office and out at a local bird sanctuary where I was about to photograph the resident mute and trumpeter swans, and Canadian geese
I actually don't have a normal focal length photo of Old Bailey's Harbor that people could compare with the shot above. OK, so I'm a camera junkie who's far beyond obsessed with photography. But, if I haul that 17 pound, 500 mm lens out to Door County, do you think I'm not going to use it?
Anyway, if someone has a normal focal length shot of Old Bailey's Harbor, it would be fun to see it posted on this thread for comparison.
I certainly had a great time wiht all of the wackos and made many new friends and am most definitely looking forward to next year's Door County Wacko Road Trip!
Gary
[This message has been edited by lighthouse_photo (edited 07-01-2002).]