Peter Damo Photography

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Pentacon 300mm f4

I occasionally like to make use of a longer tele lens than the Nikkor 180mm f2.8. So, I bought a Pentacon 300mm f4 which weighs a ton - to capture the occasional bird or other wildlife shot. This came in at under AUD200 so was not a big investment. And I figured I would also take for travel shoots where I had the car available for transport as there’s no way I’m going to carry this with the other lenses in a camera bag. I have previously used both Canon and Nikon teles upto 400mm as well as the 300mm equivalent Olympus. I have to say I love the images this lens produces. That wonderfully soft and somehow still quite sharp result together with beautiful colour rendering makes the images from this lens worth the exercise.

Wattlebird in Grevillea bush - handheld.