Originally posted by fwcetus V2 of the VS1 70-210's is my favorite version overall (despite the fact that V3 sometimes seems a bit sharper). As for "size", I find the lens pretty compact (although a bit "weighty") for a telephoto zoom.
I will say that your lens seemed to do better on FF film than on the K-3 -- the hummingbird photo seems a bit duller than some of the others -- was it shot through a window glass or through a window screen? -- was it shot wide open? -- was it overly cropped? -- or...? (Just curious.)
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks. I agree - for the length/range it is certainly NOT large - I just normally carry very small kits and do little telephoto work, so for me personally it's "large" - but by most comparisons it is small. Honestly I may begin taking it out more.
That particularly hummer shot isn't entirely representative. There was a fair bit of LR work for a more filmic look (which I prefer) and that dim look is actually what I was after... Also it was late afternoon in back of house shade. But I'll see if I can export a more neutral version of that shot for comparison.Now that I look at it more closely (I just accepted the dim/dull because really, that's how it was in the bush that time of day)...
This was at ISO1600 1/800 shutter, wide open at f/3.5 - and SR was turned off! haha... Needless to say it was not well-planned. I was actually shooting three hummingbirds nearby with my MZ-S and ran the roll out. A few minutes later, and even dimmer I just threw the Vivitar on the K-3 sitting nearby without much of a thought as to what it had been doing previously.
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Coincidentally - I found a single shot (I'd forgotten about) of the same scene on Long Lake as taken above (which was taken with this lens on the MX on Portra) but instead using the K-3.
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(I really would recommend viewing all of these on Flickr - always an odd compression that happens with both flickr links and direct embeds on this forum)