{"id":790,"date":"2007-03-24T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/24\/safari-and-sensor-dust-the-converter-solution\/"},"modified":"2007-03-24T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T14:00:55","slug":"safari-and-sensor-dust-the-converter-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/24\/safari-and-sensor-dust-the-converter-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Safari and sensor dust &#8211; the converter solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we are talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/21\/the-best-sensor-cleaning-for-digital-slr-cameras\/\">dust and cleaning the sensor of the Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) cameras<\/a>, I wanted to show a slightly different direction, some sort of <em>think-different<\/em> solution that can be used in some cases. <\/p>\n<p>I intend to leave soon for a safari in South Africa. My Konica-Minolta Dynax\/Maxxum 7D will come with long tele lenses (a Minolta APO 200mm\/2.8 and a Minolta APO 300mm\/4). As I intend to shoot wild animals that will probably be always a little too far, I also bought a 2x converter from Minolta specially adapted to these nice white lenses.<\/p>\n<p>One free side-effect of using permanently a 2x converter on the 200mm lens is that when I will be willing to move to the 300mm (unfortunately, I will loose the AF coupling since I don&#8217;t have enough dough to have an APO 300mm\/2.8), I will not even expose the sensor to the ambient dust.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it nice to use the 2x or 1.4x converter as a kind of anti-dust cap? It works on all brands; With Konica Minolta as well as with digital cameras from Canon or Nikon.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe not if you are shooting landscapes with a wide angle lens, of course&#8230; But with buffalos and cheetahs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we are talking about dust and cleaning the sensor of the Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) cameras, I wanted to show a slightly different direction, some sort of think-different solution that can be used in some cases. I intend to leave soon for a safari in South Africa. My Konica-Minolta Dynax\/Maxxum 7D will come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,34,8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-safari","category-tech","category-use-your-dslr","category-wildlife-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}