Originally posted by Mike.P® That's very nice indeed ... much cropping needed?
Here in the UK our summer weather has finished, it's dark by 5pm and wet during the day so my 150-450mm has all but been put away for the next 6 months.
Thanks! The K-1 is amazing in its resolution isn't it? And the 150-450 is silly sharp... I just try to do it justice.
Here is the original, un-cropped, and you really can't see the detail at this level, which is why I cropped it, to show off the detail you don't see at this size:
I dunno if I'd call it heavily cropped, but it is certainly cropped a fair bit. I've posted higher ISO shots that were cropped at nearly pixel level, much tighter than this, and they looked almost as clean.
For me, the biggie was the AF nailing the eye, despite the blurred foreground twig in close proximity. I did swing the lens from above and down to the eye, not from the bottom up, to avoid the twig when I focused.