Just a beautiful lens, though a tad specialized for my normal photography. I used it yesterday to photograph ~550 million year old fossils at a UNESCO World Heritage site about 90 miles away. These days--given the propensities of fossil pirates particularly from the US and to comply with UNESCO requirements, they only allow 30 people per day in two guided/supervised groups, you must hike in a couple of miles and you can only walk on the rather small exposed bedding planes in socks or bare feet. (Decades ago, it was a long hike across the barrens that I made a couple of times and many used the area for hunting/berrypicking, and commercial cod fishing...they just didn't know the significance of the fossils till some grad students had a coastal picnic on the bedding planes and got a pub in Nature some months later while at the pre-master's level!)
I packed the 100mm and even though my f-stop got reset to a low value from what I thot I set at f10 somehow, still got a number of good pictures with the shallower DOF. This one shows particularly fine detail given it's over a half a billion years old.
Hand held at a bit above waist height for framing, f4.5, ISO 100, 1/400sec.
Last edited by jgnfld; 10-09-2022 at 09:32 AM.