Do you know the story about the bird photographer whose lens was too long? No? Well, neither do I, actually. When it comes to bird photography, it often seems that no lens is long enough. Zoom lenses demonstrate this nicely: I believe that you could glue my zoom to its longest focal length, and I wouldn’t notice for quite some time. And yet, on rare occasions in bird photography, the field of view turns out to be too narrow. With a zoom lens, that’s no problem. But what about prime telephoto lenses? If taking a few steps backward isn’t enough to save the situation, there is another solution: stitching a panorama.
