Breaking out another Old Timer

[Old Timer]

Yesterday my nephew had a 10 AM Little League game. I decided to try something a little different with my equipment. Since going auto focus and digital as well I haven't had any of my manual lenses out of the camera cabinet. Saturday however I wanted to do some pictures form beyond the center field fence. I had plenty of light so I broke out a 30 year old lens. I put 300mm Vivitar f5 prime on the D2h and coupled it with an equally as old manual 2x converter. I don't think I had used either one in 10 or 12 years. The results were not great but worth post just to get some feed back.

[Old Timer]

Ok I also had the D200 with me fitted with the 80-200 f2.8 with a 1.4x converter. The difference on these are they are with the 10mp camera and I have cropped fairly heavily.

[livin4lax09]

quite the difference in lenses, that's for sure. I like the heavy crops more.

[Old Timer]

quite the difference in lenses, that's for sure. I like the heavy crops more.

I agree. But you know what an 80-200mm f2.8 cost, I think I gave under $100 for the Vivitar 300mm f5 in the late 70's or early 80's and probably not more than $30 for the 2x. Little difference it the cost for the two setups.

[livin4lax09]

wow. and back then everything was still being made by hand too.

[JETA]

Great bat on ball pics OT. I for sure can see the difference in equipment, but the oldy did pretty well. And the price. WOW!

[Old Timer]

Not many of us can remember prices like that. When I spent a hundred dollars back then I had to really want something and plan for a long time. Because it was an f5 and I was shooting mostly ISO 100 to 400 film it never got a lot of use, especially when you coupled it with the 2x and lost a couple of more stops. I really had forgotten I had it and just kind of stumbled across it and decided to see how it held up today.

[JSPhoto]

Not bad for gear thats been sitting around all those years. Great timing .....at least you still have the reflexes :

JS

[Old Timer]

Thanks JS. I just wanted to play with something different. Nothing on the line so why not?

[swmdrayfan]

Shoot Larry, those are great, no matter how heavy the crop. And congrats on the sticky.
I haven't shot sports in a while, and I'm anxious to get out and get back in the game.

[Old Timer]

Thanks for the look and the comment John. I like trying different angles and techniques. Last Saturday morning was just a relaxed time to do some of that. I was surprised by this sticky but I had really liked that shot a lot even if it was a pretty heavy crop. Glad to see others appreciated it too.

[MonkeyWrench]

Congrats on the Sticky Larry,

I agree that it was the best in the series. It was a classic look and you captured it great.

[Old Timer]

Thanks Russ. the more I look at that one the more I agree. Love the way all three are watching the flight of the ball.