At least until my father found out about it.
Once I got to college, my sophomore year I discovered scuba certification was offered as a for-credit PE course at Texas A&M, so naturally I signed up. Must be a result of all those Jacques Cousteau documentaries I watched growing up. See, I've always thought scuba a fascinating thing, the next best thing to traveling in outer space and exploring alien worlds. But attending the Texas Ren Fest, the idea struck me that the joust might prove to be a suitable subject to practice my lens-fu on with this challenging mirror.ĭidn't see that coming, huh? Well, I did, although it was 23 years in the making. My first real efforts with it I chronicled here, and ended up throwing away far more shots than I kept. It's a tough lens to use, to put it bluntly. The FD 500mm is also about 10 pounds lighter than either of those, but has the disadvantage of being a pretty slow f/8 lens that can't be stopped down. The long and short of it is I have an extremely long focal range lens that cost $10,000 less than Canon's EF 500mm f/4 IS lens, or $800 less than Sigma's 50-500mm alternative.
I painstakingly documented my conversion, but then apparently deleted all the files. Which, over the ensuing six months, I converted to Canon EF mount and inflicted a little bit of nerve damage on myself in the process. To recap, last Christmas The Wife gifted me with a Canon FD 500mm f/8 reflex mirror lens. In this particular post, I want to go into some extended detail about a set of photos I took. I've blogged a little bit about the general experience (the kids loved it, as they always do, and burned through all our money in record time) over at the Lisa On Location Photography blog. We've made it a point to visit a ren fest every year since, but after moving to New Braunfels, Waxahachie's too far for convenience, so we more often attend the Texas Renaissance Festival these days, simply because of easier logistics. It was her first visit to a renaissance festival.
So, I may or may not have mentioned before, but I took The Wife to Scarborough Faire for our first date.
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