{"id":8221,"date":"2006-05-05T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/05\/camera-lenses-2\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:27","slug":"camera-lenses-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/05\/camera-lenses-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Camera Lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, <a href=\"http:\/\/c0nsumer.livejournal.com\/865924.html\">the lenses I mentioned the other day<\/a> are excellent. The <a href=\"http:\/\/consumer.usa.canon.com\/ir\/controller?act=ModelDetailAct&#038;fcategoryid=152&#038;modelid=7306\">Canon EF 50mm f\/1.8 II<\/a> is really&#8230; interesting. It&#8217;s amazingly light, takes really nice images, and seems to be a lot nicer than I expected. The focusing ring only moves about 1\/4 turn which is great to operate with a fingertip. It also seems almost weightless, which makes me think I&#8217;ll keep it on the camera a lot. It&#8217;s also dirt cheap.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thkphoto.com\/products\/tokina\/afl-m100-a.html\">Tokina 100mm f\/2.8 AT-X 100 PRO D Macro<\/a> seems excellent as well. Despite the cheesy (and strangely Asian-looking) gold accents and lettering, it feels better made than any lens I&#8217;ve yet been able to use. It feels ridiculously solid, and it&#8217;s just a dream to use. It also focuses much faster than I expected. Also, a 100mm 1:1 lens just seems EXCELLENT. Focused at the closest, something just past the lens hood. Oh! And the lens hood can be stored on the lens hood reversed, which is just *great*. The Canons don&#8217;t do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, the lenses I mentioned the other day are excellent. The Canon EF 50mm f\/1.8 II is really&#8230; interesting. It&#8217;s amazingly light, takes really nice images, and seems to be a lot nicer than I expected. The focusing ring only moves about 1\/4 turn which is great to operate with a fingertip. It also seems\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13408,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221\/revisions\/13408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}