{"id":36,"date":"2011-04-17T22:43:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T22:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dragonslay.net\/wp\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2012-01-24T00:19:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T00:19:23","slug":"the-sigmonster","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/dragonslay.net\/wp\/?page_id=36","title":{"rendered":"Photo Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By some freak chance of nature, I ended up being a Nikon shooter. I have a D60 and a D7000 and a brace of lenses to get me into the super-telephoto range:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Nikon Nikkor AF-S 35mm f\/1.8\" href=\"http:\/\/dragonslay.net\/wp\/?page_id=113\">Nikkor 35mm f\/1.8G<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Nikon Nikkor AF-S 18-55mm VR DX\" href=\"http:\/\/dragonslay.net\/wp\/?page_id=59\">Nikkor 18-55mm VR<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Nikon Nikkor AF-S 16-85mm VR DX\" href=\"http:\/\/dragonslay.net\/wp\/?page_id=388\">Nikkor 16-85mm VR DX<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Nikon Nikkor AF-S 70-300mm VR\" href=\"http:\/\/dragonslay.net\/wp\/?page_id=85\">Nikkor 70-300mm VR<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sigma 150-500mm DG OS HSM\" href=\"http:\/\/dragonslay.net\/wp\/?page_id=92\">Sigma 150-500mm OS HSM etc<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, I usually carry a Seagull right-angle viewer (cheap and cheerful), a Cokin P-series holder with a gradiented neutral density (P121M) and circular polariser (P164) filters. I tend to use the GND more than the cirpol, as the cirpol tends to become directional at wide angles, whereas the GND gives a uniform effect no matter where you&#8217;re pointing. The Kenko DG automatic extension tube set also comes highly recommended if a dedicated macro lens is too expensive &#8211; just don&#8217;t mount anything heavier than a kilo on the end.<\/p>\n<p>I tend not to carry lens hoods for the longer lenses, simply because they are huge. Most of the time, modern lens coatings give me some leeway in where I point the lens, but just by avoiding pointing into the sun, you can get quite far. Wides are a different case, of course.<\/p>\n<p>For general walk-abouts, I usually carry the 16-85, 70-300 and 35mm lenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By some freak chance of nature, I ended up being a Nikon shooter. I have a D60 and a D7000 and a brace of lenses to get me into the super-telephoto range: Nikkor 35mm f\/1.8G Nikkor 18-55mm VR Nikkor 16-85mm VR DX Nikkor 70-300mm VR Sigma 150-500mm OS HSM etc In addition, I usually carry&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-without-comments.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dragonslay.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dragonslay.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dragonslay.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dragonslay.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dragonslay.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/dragonslay.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"http:\/\/dragonslay.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dragonslay.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}