Originally posted by timautin I have both. I used the 300 for several year before buying the 150-450, I now it well and I love it.
Yet it stayed in the bag since I bought the 150-450
A few low light samples:
1/60sec - f/6.3 - ISO6400 - 450mm
1/30sec - f/4.5 - ISO3200 - 220mm
1/13sec - f/6.3 - ISO1600 - 360mm
Then, when you do have the light...
1/250sec - f/7.1 - ISO1600 - 450mm
1/80sec - f/7.1 - ISO800 - 360mm
1/250sec - f/7.1 - ISO1600 - 450mm
1/1000sec - f/7.1 - ISO800 - 450mm
If you want to play with some RAWs, I can upload a few. The rainbow lorikeet shot was extremely underexposed, it's a nice shadow recovery example.
You can see a lot more birds pictures with the K1 & 150-450 in
this gallery .
Sorry for your wallet, but that lens deserves it
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Wow, thanks so much! Those are exactly what I needed to see. Dang, do you work for Ricoh? I think you just made them some money... my poor wallet. Heh.
I "think" I'm going to try and sell some stuff to help fund it. Y'all may see my Tamron 400mm F4 show up in the classifieds soon. I hate to let it go, it is as sharp (maybe even sharper) as the DA*300mm but my aging eyes need the autofocus. Thanks again for the post, that really did it for me.
Eric