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9 Years Ago
My husband and I just took a short trip to Chincoteage, VA recently and stopped on Assateague Island so I could get some bird shots. My camera equipment does pretty well, a Nikon D300 and a 70-200 mm 2.8 vr lens with a a 1.7 teleconverter or at least I thought it did... On Assateague island you see a wide vareity of birds but you also see a wide variety of of camera equipment ranging from a cell phone to a set up with a $10,000 lens! Well a nice man came over to where myself and some others were photographing an Ibis and all our jaws sort of dropped when we saw his 600 mm f4 lens Lol! I couldn't help myself and I blurted out" I have lens envy!" :-) He then asked, what my camera was and I told him a Nikon. Well his lens was a Nikon and he then said "would you like to try it?" Would I?!! Lol. I attached my camera very carefully to the lens, afraid to touch it for fear of breaking it and I was giddy when I saw the photos it took! I thanked him profusely and he told me "somebody did that for me once and it really opened my eyes". What a nice man! Maybe one day I'll be able to do that for somebody as well. :-) I asked him how much a lens like that runs and he said that they are around $10,000 but you can get a used one for just $7,000! I gotta start selling a lot more photos! Here's the photo I got from my brush with the big lenses.
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