I got my new lens today. a Sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 DG MACRO

[Jim Olson]

And what a difference.
Here is a crop that would normally be grainier.

Here is the full image take from 750 feet away from this building

 

[Peter Dexter]

Speaking of grain is that what that structure houses?

 

[Asher Kelman]

Peter,

So are the issues seen with this camera now resolved with his new arrival?

Asher

 

[Will Thompson]

It is a cell site.

 

[Asher Kelman]

It is a cell site.

What is a “cell site”?

Do you mean a Mobile Phone relay tower of some kind in what seems to look like a grain silo building?

Asher

 

[Jim Olson]

Speaking of grain is that what that structure houses?

Up until the 70s, yes. It was a grain silo. Now it's a Mexican restaurant.

 

[Jim Olson]

And the cell antennas is why I love this building so much. It is the old with the new

 

[Jim Olson]

Same building different camera (50D) & different time of day but I like it.

 

[Doug Kerr]

Hi, Asher,

What is a “cell site”?

It is what is more precisely known as a cell base station. They consist of a number of transmitter-receivers and an array of antennas. It is the fixed radio installation that serves a cell within a cellular wireless telephone system.

Of course, each one is a "site" (or, more precisely, is at a site), so somehow it has become most common in the industry to call them cell sites.

Among civilians, these are today most often called "cell towers" since very often (but hardly always) they include a tower to support their antennas.

But of course the antennas may be supported on a building wall, or a building parapet, or a railway bridge, or a water tank, or even (as we see above) on a grain elevator. So the word "tower" doesn't even always fit.

I always call them cell base stations.

Best regards,

Doug