Rear View Mirror Objects Closer Than They Appear

These radios are amazing. Installed in my Jeep above my rear view mirror and I am stoked about it. It’s small enough to not be in the way but is great for communicating with fellow Jeep’s. I used the ghost antenna so that it didn’t get wiped out by limbs on the trail. I’m thinking of purchasing the 6db antenna to help increase my range. I feel you can’t go wrong with this radio! Will be purchasing another for my sons Jeep.

These opera glasses are especially useful for ballet, when you want a closer view of the dancers. They are dressy and elegant, but you need to be careful to wrap the chain around the center so it doesn't scratch the lenses.

REFURBISHED A SERIES OF HOUSE NUMBERS. THEY NOW APPEAR AS ORIGINALLY APPLIED WHEN NEW. PERHAPS A BIT BETTER

I have wanted a telescope since middle school, but procrastinated for over 60 years. Now I have a Sky-Watcher 4 Maksutov and life is good. This telescope is the largest size which will work with an iOptron SkyGuider mount, and altogether is portable enough to take out on a whim, or travel by air. The Sky-Watcher is made very well. The construction is solid but not too heavy. The optics are entirely enclosed, except for the opening for an eyepiece or camera. Focusing is by a small knob which moves the primary mirror. There is little or no evidence of wobble in the focusing process. The kit comes with a finder (red dot), star diagonal (mirror), and two eye pieces, 25 mm (52x) and 10 mm (130x), both reasonably good quality Ploessl lenses. The red dot finder (like a gunsight) makes it easy to find objects suitable for the magnification, and is simple to align on a bright object (e.g., Sirius or the moon). With the addition of an inexpensive camera adapter and T-mount, the Sky-Watcher becomes a 1300 mm lens, perfect fo sharing the moon and most Messier objects with friends. The FOV with a FF camera is about 1.2 arc-degrees. A 4 aperture can be used to view objects as dim as Magnitude 12 or 13. A larger scope and eyepiece (2 v 1.25) would be better for viewing or astrophotography, but much heavier and starting at 4x the cost (including mount). Im extremely happy for now, and its something to share with my grandchildren. Best of all, it arrived in time for the Blood Wolf Super Moon eclipse on 1-20-19.

Light and small keep camera and lens talking while getting objects/birds/animals 2x closer.

Obviously I use it get closer to far away objects. I primarily use it on my 100-400 lens to get 200-800mm and it works very well. I was hesitant after reading too many reviews about how soft it was and the loss of 2 f stops, but I found that with little post production editing I get good photos. Only problem is that it is slow and I don't get, for example, good photos of birds in flight.

I like macro fotos. I bought this product thinking in even closer objects with my Canon 100mm macro. to my surprise, I got excellent results. The loss of light is small compared to the gain in approximation.

Got this to support a camera while doing table top photography of small objects. Allows the camera to get closer while the tripod can't get any closer to the table top set up. Counterweights really do balance the rig.

B&H came thru...again. Than a bunch.

In the mid-1980s I bought a Nikon 7.5mm f5.6 circular fisheye. Being an older design (1966) its rear elements protruded into the mirror box. Fortunately my F3 had a hard physical mirror lockup. The external viewfinder for this lens attached to the camera on the original Nikon F/F2’s proprietary flash shoe. I was able to buy an AS-3 flash adapter for the F3. With the F3s mirror locked up I also had to use an hand-held light meter. With amazing depth of foield focusing was never an issue. The old zoom lens had six filters on a wheel. One was a skylight and the other five were strongly colored for B&W film. While I liked the circular results, using the lens was a hassle. I often had my shoes or forehead in the picture. On a sunny day, my images suffered from solar flares. My new Nikon 8-15mm AF-S fisheye has none of those old problems. It fits on my DSLRs without any problem. It doesn’t need an external finder or separate light meter. At the 8mm setting (and lens hood off) I get a circular image very much like the vintage fisheye. The new lens is faster and focusable. Like my 14mm f2.8 Nikkor, this zoom uses gel filters inserted in the rear of the lens. I really don’t like this arrangement. This fisheye is similar in weight and size to the 14mm lens. I am also not fond of the electronic aperture control first seen on G lenses. Without an aperture ring one cannot use this zoom on older cameras. At the longer end of the zoom range (12-15mm) the image fills the (FX) frame and lens hood stays out of the way. This image is similar to my inexpensive Bower (Samyang?) 8mm fisheye with its fixed lens hood (and DX coverage). So far I haven’t used my new lens much but I think I will like it.