The Many Looks From Telezooms

Daniel J. Cox took an 80-400mm telezoom to the Galápagos to have a single lens that could create a tight portrait or back off to photograph behavior

By Text And Photography By Daniel J. Cox

Published September 3, 2013
Updated June 30, 2016

I remember my first zoom lens, the Nikkor 80-200mm ƒ/2.8, as a gift from on high, a bulky chunk of metal and glass dropped down from another planet.

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