{"id":34,"date":"2007-01-14T02:03:49","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T02:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archbishopkebab.co.uk\/?p=34"},"modified":"2007-07-06T07:42:39","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T07:42:39","slug":"impressed-well-yes-actually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Impressed? Well yes actually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/blogpics\/300mm.gif\" align=\"left\" height=\"227\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"91\" \/>Whilst on the usual Saturday shopping trip with Rachel I decided to take trip to Jessops to test the 300mm lens.  Also the added bonus was she was asleep so it made the whole thing possible.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Right here goes:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Jessops supplied 5D (with very dirty viewfinder! &#8211; thought mine was shite) and 300mm f\/4 IS USM lens.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nRoof over Colmore Row from outside Jessops.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/blogpics\/roof.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Close up of Flue (image sharpened &#8211; 300% \/ .3 \/ 0)<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/blogpics\/flue.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Exif f\/4.5 1\/200 iso 160.  Distance according to google earth is 165 Metres.<\/p>\n<p>Google Earth snapshot<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/blogpics\/googleearth.jpg\" height=\"471\" width=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So overall, i&#8217;m very impressed with this lens.  Image Stabilisation seems to work really well.  Some images look quite usable at 1\/80.  Still going to wait until Focus 2007 to check out the prices there.  Jessops are reluctant to match prices at the moment, but the Manager of the store said he&#8217;d have a word with head office.  Failing that Calumet are quite close in price so they might win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst on the usual Saturday shopping trip with Rachel I decided to take trip to Jessops to test the 300mm lens. Also the added bonus was she was asleep so it made the whole thing possible. Right here goes: Jessops supplied 5D (with very dirty viewfinder! &#8211; thought mine was shite) and 300mm f\/4 IS &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=34\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Impressed? Well yes actually&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}