{"id":11210,"date":"2006-09-16T10:49:32","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T10:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/09\/sweet-sassy-molassey-thats-some-big-glass.html"},"modified":"2006-09-16T10:49:32","modified_gmt":"2006-09-16T10:49:32","slug":"sweet_sassy_molassey_thats_some_big_glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/16\/sweet_sassy_molassey_thats_some_big_glass\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet sassy molassey, that&#039;s some big glass!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe the photography gods are trying to tell me to suck it up &amp; buy a decent zoom lens already: after looking at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeiss.com\/c12567a8003b58b9\/Contents-Frame\/8baac109cb80bddfc12571e100393a1b\">1700mm f\/4 monstrosity<\/a> from Carl Zeiss, a 70-200 f\/2.8 looks positively svelte.  &#8220;Developed for long distance wildlife photography,&#8221; says Zeiss, this 563lb (!!) warhammer ain&#8217;t playin&#8217;.  As my boss Kevin said, &#8220;You don&#8217;t lug that thing around; you put an engine on it and drive it home!&#8221;  [Via Chris Quartetti]<br \/>\n[Update: As Bryan notes below, the side of the lens contains what appears to be Arabic script.  Folks at T.O.P. offer more <a href=\"http:\/\/theonlinephotographer.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/zeiss-super-tele.html\">detail &amp; comments<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe the photography gods are trying to tell me to suck it up &amp; buy a decent zoom lens already: after looking at this 1700mm f\/4 monstrosity from Carl Zeiss, a 70-200 f\/2.8 looks positively svelte. &#8220;Developed for long distance wildlife photography,&#8221; says Zeiss, this 563lb (!!) warhammer ain&#8217;t playin&#8217;. As my boss Kevin said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11210"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}