{"id":773,"date":"2018-07-26T21:53:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T21:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/?p=773"},"modified":"2020-02-21T12:59:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T12:59:10","slug":"new-review-canon-new-fd-500mm-f4-5l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/07\/26\/new-review-canon-new-fd-500mm-f4-5l\/","title":{"rendered":"New Review: Canon New FD 500mm f4.5L"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally got around to reviewing a lens I&#8217;ve been using a lot lately, the highly-respected super-telephoto <a href=\"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/canon-new-fd-500mm-f4-5l\/\">Canon New FD 500m f4.5L<\/a>. I have recently acquired a new hiking telephoto lens (the 500mm is just too big and heavy for long walks &#8211; not to mention you can&#8217;t easily access it in a huge backpack to shoot random encounters): the modern Nikon AF-S 300mm f4 ED IF. I got it cheap because the autofocus is knackered, but as I only use dumb adapters it was perfect for me, and this is one of the last Nikon lenses to still feature the manual aperture on the lens, so I can use it as a completely manual lens without issues.<\/p>\n<p>This lens replaces my much-used and loved Canon New FD 100-300mm f5.6L, which may find it&#8217;s way onto my A7ii as a landscape telephoto &#8211; but it might lose out to the heavier but much faster Tamron Adaptall-2 SP 80-200mm f2.8 LD. First impressions of the Nikon is that it is very sharp, controls CA well and works extremely well with the Nikon TC-14E 1.4x extender, which is sharp wide open giving me a 420mm f5.6 telephoto which remains compact enough to get into my shoulder back to be ready for whatever I encounter on my walks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally got around to reviewing a lens I&#8217;ve been using a lot lately, the highly-respected super-telephoto Canon New FD 500m f4.5L. I have recently acquired a new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6],"tags":[12,13,14,32,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}