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12-14-2017, 06:37 AM - 9 Likes   #27031
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12-14-2017, 09:07 AM   #27032
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QuoteOriginally posted by Kombivan Quote
chinese 420-800 $126.00 special.
Those are resized images? Yep that looks just as bad as the one I tried (test pics from my review temporarily missing due to bruv-in-law moving servers without telling me...)
12-14-2017, 02:41 PM   #27033
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QuoteOriginally posted by marcusBMG Quote
Yep that looks just as bad as the one I tried (test pics from my review temporarily missing due to bruv-in-law moving servers without telling me...)
Your review is a hoot Marcus. "It's a slow lens too, only f8.3 at 420mm, ... dropping to a bright sunshine only, diffraction setting in, f16 at 800mm. Although it's a 62mm filter thread its front element is only ~ 50mm diameter ... soft at all focal lengths, ... strong CA, poor contrast, halos/coma ... significant flare ... you're better off with a shorter focal length and cropping"
And to think for the same money, or less, you could get a DA-L 55-300 or a Sigma 70-300, crop to 25% of the image, and still come out way ahead.
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Couldn't find a 'PLM Club' so I thought I'd post this here! A Red Kite on a gloomy June day in the south of England. K-3II/PLM55-300, around 40% crop of a 300mm shot.



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Daily Morning Meetings, K-5/A-400
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Just to share - Parrot in flight, though not shot with long lens (FA77)


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As always, stunning kengoh.
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QuoteOriginally posted by kengoh Quote
Just to share - Parrot in flight, though not shot with long lens (FA77)
Stunning images. Ken you should have a lifetime exemption from any posting restrictions on any thread on this forum. :-)
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K-3 with FA* 300mm f4.5 ED IF

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A couple of shots from earlier in the year. K-5/Sigma 300mm F2.8 EX DG/Gitzo 1348

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12-20-2017, 09:48 AM - 5 Likes   #27042
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Taken at Bombay Hook on an overcast morning
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Nice shot, Bob!
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Hey Dave - thanks - headed to Conowingo tomorrow.
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It was a very grey over cast day at Bombay Hook this morning. But I went out to use some new gear anyway.
Found a Juvy in the trees and a hungry Grey Heron on a cool overcast grey morning
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