And the Winner of the Biggest Telephoto is

Submitted by Syv Ritch on 10. January 2012 - 8:35

You are not seeing much of the guy, but I'm talking about the guy in the middle and the small tube. He's sandwiched between a Sony with a Minolta 600 behind him and a Canon 500 in front. It's not a Canon, Nikon or a …

The winner of the tele photo wars The guy in the middle, between the Canon 500 and the Minolta 600, with the small narrow white tube, has a 1200mm!It's a digiscope. A 1200mm on a micro-4/3rd format. This gives him a whopping 2400mm lens, and it's very light, under 4lbs. snowy-owls-20111225-0388.jpg — ©2011 Syv Ritch -- foto-biz.com: http://www.foto-biz.com/usageterms

After taking this photo, I spoke with the guy asking him what is it? It's a Borg, a digiscope, 1200mm, yes twelve hundred or one thousand two hundred, that is mounted on a micro-4/3rd. That's the equivalent to a 2400mm lens. Me and my puny 400mm on a Canon 7D makes it a 640mm.

  1. He has 4 times the focal length.
  2. The snowy owl is 16 times larger on his photos. He was taking head shots, I was taking “environmental shots”.

Snowy OwlYoung Snowy Owl awake and standing gaurd during the day.The red on his right