{"id":68173,"date":"2013-05-11T18:17:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T09:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=68173"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:44:06","slug":"tot-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20130511\/blogs\/camera\/tot-preparation","title":{"rendered":"TOT Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"decob-3303952159\" class=\"decob- decob-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/advertise\" aria-label=\"ad_sample_1456_180_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png 1456w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-300x37.png 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-1024x127.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-768x95.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1456px) 100vw, 1456px\" width=\"812\" height=\"100\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p>More tedious than expected<br \/>\nLessons learned from my last TOT outing<br \/>\nLast time I used a 70-200 VR2 + TC-14E&#8545; &#038; DX crop for 420mm equivalent<br \/>\nSince I don&#8217;t use a long lens that often<br \/>\nI picked up a TC-20E&#8546; quite a while back.<br \/>\nWith this, the 70-200 VR2 + TC-20E&#8546; &#038; DX crop gives me<br \/>\n600mm equivalent.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/492577_9033591_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Hehe! I&#8217;ll bring both just in case.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/492577_9033591_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Plus a step stool and a monopod\u2014the gear adds up, so I managed to pack it all somehow.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t forget spare batteries and spare media!<br \/>\nThe weather looks nice too \u2606 Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More tedious than expected Lessons learned from my last TOT outing Last time I used a 70-200 VR2 + TC-14E&#8545; &#038; DX crop for 420mm equivalent Since I don&#8217;t use a long lens that often I picked up a TC-20E&#8546; quite a while back. With this, the 70-200 VR2 + TC-20E&#8546; &#038; DX crop gives me 600mm equivalent.&nbsp; &nbsp;Hehe! I&#8217;ll bring both just in case.&nbsp; &nbsp;Plus a step stool and a monopod\u2014the gear adds up, so I managed to pack it all somehow. Don&#8217;t forget spare batteries and spare media! The weather looks nice too \u2606 Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-68173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camera","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}