{"id":953,"date":"2012-01-25T02:12:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T16:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?p=953"},"modified":"2012-01-25T02:12:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T16:12:28","slug":"new-toys-makes-for-good-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"New Toys makes for good times"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my dreams finally came true last week. I managed to get myself a new camera lens. One that I have wanted for so long yet never been able to do one of the following:<\/p>\n

1. Justify the price brand new
\n2. Find one at a decent price brand new
\n3. Find one 2nd hand<\/p>\n

Well last week an offer came up online for one at a price that was to good to be true, and well I just couldn’t let it slip past me. To make things ever better there was a scheduled flight coming in that would be a highlight of the year so far and if I could get it in time, it would make for some perfect photos.<\/p>\n

The lens is a Sigma 50-500mm. Pretty much about as big as your going to get without going to the crazy lens range that only the professionals would use. It weighs what feels a tonne but thankfully the camera strap I use is pretty padded so it doesn’t really do all that much damage, cept to my arms (nothing some more muscles wont fix).<\/p>\n

The lens takes some damn good shots so now my lens collection is almost complete. I really need something like a 10-24 or something similar. Something nice and wide for a difference or maybe an 18-50 or something for a walk around I dunno.<\/p>\n

The special flight that came in though was Air New Zealand’s new 777-300ER in the All Blacks Livery. Thankfully I was able to get the lens in time to get it to me and that meant that I could use it for this one shot that would be amazing. When it was into Brisbane for the first time and I can make it, I will be there.<\/p>\n

Managed to score some other goodies this weekend but here are a few samples that show just how awesome this new lens can make a photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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From Brisbane Spotting 2012<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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From Brisbane Spotting 2012<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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From Brisbane Spotting 2012<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

and a link to the whole album:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Brisbane Spotting 2012<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my dreams finally came true last week. I managed to get myself a new camera lens. One that I have wanted for so long yet never been able to do one of the following: 1. Justify the price brand new 2. Find one at a decent price brand new 3. Find one 2nd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotting","category-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p49RU0-fn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}