Sometimes, I Have Too Much Lens!
Perhaps it's a strange statement but I shall demonstrate:
I rode out on Yagi, my TW200 dual sport to get long depth of field shots of Baboquivari, the Mountain peak that dominates the view here in the wildlife refuge and surrounding areas.
I was hoping to use my binos with cameraphone adapter to accomplish this goal as in previous postings. This day however, it became clear I was using "too much lens". Meaning that the binoculars were too powerful at their 10x magnification factor to be useful for the shots I was trying for.
The first attempt was at the junction of State Highway 286 and the road that leads onto the Baboquivari trailhead a few miles down range. From where I stopped the motorcycle just before a bend in the road, I walked all the way back to the fence line where the angles suddenly became bad for capturing both the motorcycle and the peak itself.
You can't see I barely captured Yagi within the shot
This is the spot from which I shot the first pic.
I then motored onwards a couple of miles or so to a wide parking spot where I have camped before with the peak in the background as you can see below:
You can ride closer, all the way to the trailhead for the trail which you can hike to get closer to the top of the peak. It's not a really well marked trail and I had lost it during previous attempts to do it. This time I decided to turn around and try for a different spot closer to the refuge's visitor center.
No binos used...I tried the binos adapter but the shots
Didn't turn out.
Next I rode to the small village of Arivaca as the sun rose ever higher in the sky and the light got more and more difficult to work with.
About 3 and 1/2 mi south of Arivaca on the way to Arivaca Lake there's a set of small ridges that I have used before for long depth of field shots.
Previous ride
I didn't quite align the camera and bino eyepiece and sadly this was the best of the several I tried. The lighting from the bright sun forced much post-processing afterwards too.
Below shows you how far I was from Yagi when I tried for the shot above it:
I believe this was using 10x digital zoom, no binos
At this point, the light was so flat I gave up on further pictures and proceeded back to camp. The next shot was done later on in the afternoon once the light became a little better.
Then, the light got a little better:
Is it apparently happens during this time of year, the shadows start to form on the peak as the sun moves across the sky. So I tried this bino shot before the shadows completely covered the peak and made it appear as a hazy silhouette in the late afternoon.
1x zoom with binos
(Obviously)
2.9x zoom with binos
