Originally posted by OJGoreng Weather was a bit better today; I'm starting to REALLY love this lens. I cannot really be bothered to put any shoots on Flickr for review purposes, but here's one, cropped to about a quarter of the frame (i.e., the image is 6.6 MP from the K-3's 24.3 MP).
These ducks fly at a speed of about 90 km/h.
For birding purposes, this thing is boss. I finally managed to ID a peregrine because I could read the code on her leg ring after blowing up the frame, that kind of thing. Most of today's harvest is
here; mind you most of these images have first been cropped to about 5-10% of the original frame, then downsized to 800 * 600. Not the thing you do if you want to take pretty pictures, but the distance simply requires it. I actually tried it with the 1.7x AFA as well; the results aren't exactly pretty, but it works.
Thanks for all your efforts, OJGoreng. Highly appreciated!
What I wonder is what you think of the bokeh of the lens? I ask because in some of these early samples especially the bokeh in the background looks rather busy and somewhat harsh, e.g. when birds are shot through twigs and branches or with these as a background. I have not seen anything comparable in shots with the two Sigma 150-600 which seem to render a smoother bokeh. What are your first impressions of the Pentax?
Thanks.