How do i disguise a 400/2.8 so that it looks like a 200/2?
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Greg just smile and hand over the CC as you show her the new lens.
i'm sure that she'll have out the scissors.... :biggrin:
many of you have OVER-estimated my "self-worth." :smile:
Just get a small screwdriver and unscrew the little gold lens name plate from the 200mm and screw it onto the 400mm when you want to use it. If she suggests it looks bigger from last time, just tell her it is sunnier so you are using the optional bigger lens hood.
Labels don't lie :biggrin:
Labels don't lie :biggrin:
Greg,
Just roast Carol some nice high grown Guatemalan, or Kenyan, and brew her a cup before you break the news. Might work. Or maybe not.
Just roast Carol some nice high grown Guatemalan, or Kenyan, and brew her a cup before you break the news. Might work. Or maybe not.
Greg,
just a thought: Treat her extremely nice for some time (a week or so at least). Exquisite dinner every night, flowers every morning, maybe also the other 2 or 3k thing that was mentioned on post #5, of course, also best coffee, etc. This is all to make her badly suspicious that something really bad happened. And when she finally breaks and want to hammer the truth out of you, tell her it's only a 400 mm lens. Puh. What a relief!!!
Of course, you could also try the cheaper route: Tell her that you caught an until today unknown virus at work. And the thing made you get the lens!!!
Whatever you do: You're screwed and good LUCK
just a thought: Treat her extremely nice for some time (a week or so at least). Exquisite dinner every night, flowers every morning, maybe also the other 2 or 3k thing that was mentioned on post #5, of course, also best coffee, etc. This is all to make her badly suspicious that something really bad happened. And when she finally breaks and want to hammer the truth out of you, tell her it's only a 400 mm lens. Puh. What a relief!!!
Of course, you could also try the cheaper route: Tell her that you caught an until today unknown virus at work. And the thing made you get the lens!!!
Whatever you do: You're screwed and good LUCK
Whoever said having photography as a hobby was inexpensive still uses a kit lens, and has never ventured onto this forum's Lens Lust section.
Geez! Those photos look like they were swiped right from a Nikon lens brochure. Do you still use all of them, or have they mostly become collectors items? Is there a Nikkor lens you don't own?
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Greg,
just a thought: Treat her extremely nice for some time (a week or so at least). Exquisite dinner every night, flowers every morning, maybe also the other 2 or 3k thing that was mentioned on post #5, of course, also best coffee, etc. This is all to make her badly suspicious that something really bad happened. And when she finally breaks and want to hammer the truth out of you, tell her it's only a 400 mm lens. Puh. What a relief!!!
Of course, you could also try the cheaper route: Tell her that you caught an until today unknown virus at work. And the thing made you get the lens!!!
Whatever you do: You're screwed and good LUCK
ah, walter
i DO like the VIRUS idea
maybe i can vomit on the floor upon returning home today.... to "break the ice" with that thought, so-to-speak........ :biggrin:
Whoever said having photography as a hobby was inexpensive still uses a kit lens, and has never ventured onto this forum's Lens Lust section.
Amen to that
For the next few days sprinkle some "dust" on your 200 f/2 case. Make sure she sees you do this. When she askes, and she will, tell her you heard that you can fertalize the lens in hopes that the lens will grow. She will think your looney, nuts, and dumb. But show her wrong in few days when out of the case you whip out the 400. Tadaaa!!! it worked.:biggrin::biggrin:
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Dress it up like this and hide it between the plants :biggrin:
Or buy a white one an tell her you switched to Canon and you really need to buy all other Canon lenses as well, she will be so flabbergasted that she will be more than happy when you tell her that it is only the 400. :smile:
Or buy a white one an tell her you switched to Canon and you really need to buy all other Canon lenses as well, she will be so flabbergasted that she will be more than happy when you tell her that it is only the 400. :smile:
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Haha! Then don't lose too much weight or that lens will look really huge!
10K for a "toy" is far cheaper than that MV Agusta Brutale i brought home a couple of years ago (and since sold.... at a loss i won't mention here :frown
Pictures :smile:???
Jonny
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