{"id":1800,"date":"2016-01-09T15:37:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T20:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2016-01-09T15:37:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T20:37:16","slug":"upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2016\/01\/09\/upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For our upcoming Galapagos trip, I have purchased a new wildlife lens that&#8217;s more suitable for the conditions I expect to encounter. \u00a0The lens on the left is my existing wildlife lens, an 80-400mm zoom; the new one on the right is a 70-200mm f\/4, and is better &amp; more modern in every way except long-end magnification, which I don&#8217;t expect to need on this trip. Probably most crucially, the new one weighs a full pound less than the old. A pound may not sound like a lot, but it&#8217;s definitely noticeable when you&#8217;ve been wearing it on your back all day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1801\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/01\/DCL_4131-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"DCL_4131\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/01\/DCL_4131-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/01\/DCL_4131-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/01\/DCL_4131-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/01\/DCL_4131-1600x1063.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our upcoming Galapagos trip, I have purchased a new wildlife lens that&#8217;s more suitable for the conditions I expect to encounter. \u00a0The lens on the left is my existing wildlife lens, an 80-400mm zoom; the new one on the right is a 70-200mm f\/4, and is better &amp; more modern in every way except &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2016\/01\/09\/upgrade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Upgrade&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}