{"id":81,"date":"2015-05-14T18:41:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T18:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonyguides.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2015-05-14T18:41:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T18:41:25","slug":"yes-the-sony-70-200mm-f4-fe-zoom-is-a-great-close-up-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonyguides.com\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Yes, the Sony 70-200mm F\/4 FE zoom is a great close-up lens&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 2058px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/scontent-ord.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xfp1\/t31.0-8\/s2048x2048\/11024201_10152597425192540_1012161331408116157_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1006\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Close-ups from a distance<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftCaption\" class=\"fbPhotosPhotoCaption\" tabindex=\"0\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"hasCaption\">Most of us like to pack a full set of lenses so we&#8217;ll be ready for anything.\u00a0 Yet, I&#8217;ve found that many people will happily settle into one of two camps&#8230;either they are a Telephoto Person or a Wide-Angle Person. Although either group will frequently travel into the other&#8217;s territory, they tend to &#8220;see&#8221; many picture-taking opportunities either from a telephoto <em>or <\/em>a wide-angle perspective, and tend to approach their subjects from one &#8220;angle&#8221; or another.\u00a0\u00a0 With a telephoto view, selective focus and emphasis on fine details or textures often takes precedence, as shown in this shot of a blue and yellow macaw in Islamorada, Florida.\u00a0 Wide-angle lenses may be favored by those who want to use apparent perspective distortion for effect (the distortion is only <em>apparent<\/em>, not real, because it is not due to a defect in the lens), or who wish to take in a broad expanse of the surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to isolate this macaw against a busy background, and used my Sony 70-200mm f\/4 lens at 200mm to capture the bird from a distance of about 40 inches, wide open at f\/4 and 1\/800th second at ISO 200.\u00a0 As you can see from the inset, this lens can be used as a great macro lens, too.\u00a0 The telephoto let me keep my distance from the macaw (although it was more likely I&#8217;d get bitten than frighten the bird), while the wide open aperture and lovely bokeh of this lens de-emphasized the background.\u00a0 And for this &#8220;macro&#8221; shot, no tripod was required.\u00a0 The fast shutter speed and the lens&#8217;s optical image stabilization was all I need for a sharp image.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us like to pack a full set of lenses so we&#8217;ll be ready for anything.\u00a0 Yet, I&#8217;ve found that many people will happily settle into one of two camps&#8230;either they are a Telephoto Person or a Wide-Angle Person. Although either group will frequently travel into the other&#8217;s territory, they tend to &#8220;see&#8221; many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonyguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonyguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonyguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonyguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonyguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonyguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/sonyguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonyguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonyguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonyguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}