{"id":8225,"date":"2006-05-06T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-06T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/06\/new-lens\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:27","slug":"new-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/06\/new-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lens&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now I&#8217;m wanting to sell my Canon EF-S 17-85 f4-5.6 IS lens and get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/bnh\/controller\/home?O=productlist&#038;A=details&#038;Q=&#038;sku=200211&#038;is=REG&#038;addedTroughType=search\">this one<\/a> instead. 28-80 f2.8 all the way across&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Only problems I can see is that it lacks IS, but it&#8217;s a lot faster. And a bit narrower range zoom-wise&#8230; I&#8217;d probably need something wide angle. And IS works all the time. With this lens I&#8217;d just have to open it up a bit, decreasing DOF&#8230;.etc.<\/p>\n<p>Hrm, decisions&#8230; decisions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Cost is pretty much not an issue since I could sell one to pay for the other. But I <em>did<\/em> just get a circular polarizing filter for the Canon lens. I wouldn&#8217;t be able to re-use it, as the new lens would be 1cm larger. Hrm.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, also, do any of you know a place where I could get some velvet? I could use white, black, and maybe red. Maybe&#8230; 4&#8242; square pieces. I want something for the background when photographing things, but I want it to be non-reflective and not especially well defined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now I&#8217;m wanting to sell my Canon EF-S 17-85 f4-5.6 IS lens and get this one instead. 28-80 f2.8 all the way across&#8230; Only problems I can see is that it lacks IS, but it&#8217;s a lot faster. And a bit narrower range zoom-wise&#8230; I&#8217;d probably need something wide angle. And IS works all the\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-8225","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\/8225","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=8225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13404,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions\/13404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}