400mm Nikon Lens; Valley Forge

  • 400mm Nikon Lens – Poor Little Worm

    400mm Nikon Lens – Poor Little Worm

    O.K. guys, I finally got the right tripod for the new big lens and have been having the time of my life lugging this big old baby all over Kingdom Come looking for fun things to photograph. Here’s an example of how fast and precise this new lens is. It takes the robin just…

  • Panic!

    Panic!

    An hour of panic this morning…. I broke down about a month ago and bought myself a way too big Nikon lens. I put the new lens on my old tripod and broke the head of the tripod. Ugh…… So the only way to fix this awful mess was to continue to stimulate the…

  • 400 mm Nikon Lens

    400 mm Nikon Lens

    Well guys, after two years of pinching every penny (actually that’s 58 years) and thinking I shouldn’t do it, I purchased a new 400mm lens for taking photographs of elusive wildlife that are too far away for my current system. The lens came the day before yesterday. It’s as big and heavy as a…