{"id":294,"date":"2009-08-30T03:56:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T19:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tzlee.com\/blog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:47:26","slug":"opteka-500mm-mirror-lens-going-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/opteka-500mm-mirror-lens-going-outdoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Opteka 500mm Mirror Lens Going Outdoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to take the Opteka 500mm mirror lens along with me today and took some shots. Note all the photos have been digitally enhanced, cropped and resized for web viewing.<\/p>\n<p>As suggested in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tzlee.com\/blog\/?p=275\">previous post<\/a>, this lens works best when taken with high shutter speeds. Try not to get +0.0 exposure on your camera or you&#8217;ll get overexposed photos. The photos will look pale, but some post-processing with Photoshop should fix them.<\/p>\n<p>Verdict? The Opteka 500mm mirror lens is a good toy for some fun. The photos are decent enough for some web photos, but one should not consider it for professional use.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the pics! Photos taken with an Olympus E-420 and Opteka 500mm mirror @ f\/8.0. No tripods used.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-294 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8296686-S.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8296686-S-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-295\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-295'>\n\t\t\t\tDKNY &#8211; DiKu NeiYi. Taken from ground level.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8296687-S.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8296687-S-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-296\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-296'>\n\t\t\t\tLocal bird species.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8296698-S.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8296698-S-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-297\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-297'>\n\t\t\t\tMan crossing the street, taken from 3rd floor of Teck Whye CC.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8296712-S.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8296712-S-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-298\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-298'>\n\t\t\t\tMore clothes for drying, taken from ground level.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8306730-S.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8306730-S-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-299\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-299'>\n\t\t\t\tThe moon on the night of August 29, 2009.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to take the Opteka 500mm mirror lens along with me today and took some shots. Note all the photos have been digitally enhanced, cropped and resized for web viewing. As suggested in my previous post, this lens works best when taken with high shutter speeds. Try not to get +0.0 exposure on your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[652],"tags":[58,59,56],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-lens","tag-olympus","tag-opteka"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3817,"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/3817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}