It arrived late yesterday. It's a beautiful lens.
I don't know how to work it yet. lol
Good indications so far though. The lens is enormous but not as enormous as a canon or Nikon equivalent.
It will be hard to hold at 1000mm, even harder at 1400mm.
Too early to tell if it will help, or hurt my game.
I don't know the lens yet. It's big and unwieldy.
Turn quickly the wrong way and someone is standing there that you didn't see, and you could knock them out cold as a cucumber.
Hope you guys are well,
LS

[phx.david]

Judging by the image, worth the money and looks like it will help you. Nice shot

[MikeNArk]

Agree, this image is very good. I believe this lens will serve you well. Looking forward to more images.

[luftfluss]

Wow, your photo looks superb, and congrats on the new big lens! I'm guessing you had quite a long wait for it...

[angkymac]

Detail, subject interest, colors, composition...
Great!
Angky.

[LightSpeed]

Thanks fellas.
The lens is nice. Like really nice. But I don't know it yet.
This is the same bird about to put the dragonfly down the hatch.

[MikeNArk]

You seem to know your camera and this lens will be a new tool for to capture your view of nature. By the way, this is also a very nice photo.

[LightSpeed]

You seem to know your camera and this lens will be a new tool for to capture your view of nature. By the way, this is also a very nice photo.

The depth of what this camera can do, hasn't been tapped by me, that's for sure. You can micro manage anything.
And the damn thing is fast. It's not the latest greatest , but, to every latest greatest, another comes along with a heavy price tag as a door prize.

Better to learn what you have and realize the small differences in marketing hype, can't overcome ones use of light.
Do I need 18 frames per second? When 4 frames per second can do the trick? Or 30 frames per second when 18 can,, more than do it ?
These images could have been better. I just got this lens and I didnt expect to run up on somethng like these two photos.
Both were shot at 1000mm (35mm ( full frame) equivalent) using a 1.25 teleconverter.
Hand held.

I could have stopped down one stop and knocked the shutter speed down which would have knocked the ISO down.
I screwed this up. I could have had this at ISO 800 or less instead of 1250. Both images would have looked better.
But in my defense , this did kind of happen fast. And I don't know how to use this lens.

The lens is also fitted with a Hoya 95mm UV (0) - the good one. First thing.
I use them on every lens after exploring things for a while. You know what I mean.
Switched from Pentax to Olympus, because I decided to go mirrorless.Very nearly went Pentax Full Frame K1.
So, Now, I'm on a Pentax forum shooting Olympus. To this day, I don't think any of todays cameras can compensate for user skill.
Learned that the hard way.

Anyway, enough of my dumb rant.
I hope you're well today, Mike.
LS

[K2 to K50]

Two exceptionally crisp and beautiful images!

[LightSpeed]

Thank Y'all

[Heinrich Lohmann]

I don't care what lens or what camera, they are jus t tools but these are two very good images . Thanks for posting them.

[LightSpeed]

I don't care what lens or what camera, they are jus t tools but these are two very good images . Thanks for posting them.

High praise from someone with an extensive resume. Your body of work is phenomenal.

I really appreciate it. A lot.
LS