back again for another spin.
i tried out the macro mode at 80mm this evening. least i assume it's macro mode. you can feel a slight limiter when you move over to 80, and the colour of the lettering is orange, not white
only very quickly played around on it, but it looks pretty tack sharp to me! taken at either f8 or f11. i can't remember now.
then converted to b&w with a few tweaks on levels and upping the contrast slightly
looked up from my mini photo session and saw this:
and of course we can't forget Elsie..
zoomed out to 35mm for the pups. you can see how tricky the lighting was - it's a rainy gloaming atm, so you get cool blue light from the windows, and then warm light from the lamp. aperture at 2.8. so for all that tricky lighting, i'm pretty happy with these two shots despite them being slightly blurry.
Elsie I also sharpened a bit - as my own unsteady hands made for even more blur. but the lighting in her eye there made me want to try and salvage the pic and share. if nothing else these two pictures show a beautiful rendering of colours, and the bokeh in the second looks very smooth to me. dare i say, more so than my sigma 18-200 megazoom
overall i'm pretty happy with this lens, on Day 2 of ownership.
Does anyone else have this lens? how do you find it?
all taken on the kx. 35-80 2.8-3.8 01a. click on images for exif data