This saturday I went out with my newly purchased lens to test it. I was on my way to the Karpendonkse Plas in Eindhoven, since there are plenty of birds, but then I thought that maybe there still would be a game at Hockeyclub HTC.
Some people know that I do take a lot off pictures, but I never visited HTC before. I descided to give the lens a good test, so from 60 to 250mm and from f4 to f11 with AF-S and AF-C. There where people looking strange to me since there was this almost constant machinegun sound coming out of my K-5. I only brought my black K-5 with this lens and a monopod. All pictures are taken in JPG because I didn't want to wait for my camera to process all RAW images. The downside is less controll over picture quality and adjusting, but that was not the main goal for this time.
The game was the team MA1 and the endscore was 1-1.
A few portraits with the lens. I have more convenient lenses for this purpose, but I think it should be possible:
250mm f4.0 close-up
140mm f5.6
250mm f4.0 from some distance
I just looked into the 250mm/f4.0 and made a new version:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/20195454/_K5E7438G.jpg
that aint so bad after all!
Before the beginning of the game the field was sprinkled, they play on a half drey field if I'm correct:
250mm f4.0 and easy to focus
The game with AF-S:
250mm f4.0
250mm f5.6
80mm f4.0
140mm f5.0
The game with AF-C and Auto selection 5 AF-punten (centre AF-point also used but not in this selection):
250mm f4.0
I just looked into the 250mm/f4.0 and made a new version with some polishing:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/20195454/_K5E7696G.jpg
that aint so bad after all!
250mm f5.6
250mm f5.6
250mm f7.1
250mm f9.0
250mm f7.1
For if you want to view a bigger picture of the last one:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/20195454/_K5E7884G.jpg
250mm f10.0 off the field injured
I have to say that this is a fantastic lens. Only downside is that it should be more sharp at f4.0 from 200-250mm, due it is usable but the jump in sharpness at 220-250mm from f4 to f5.6 is big. You should be using this lens with open diafragma at the long end. Focussing is very good, not blazingly fast, but the DOF at 250mm and f4-f5.6 is very narrow so misfocussing can happen very easily.
To say it short, This is an amazing lens, but then again at the time in The Netherlands it is costing 1249 euro and $1500 in USA.
And I see that this is my
1000th posting so that is a nice marking on my presence here
Last edited by RonHendriks1966; 05-24-2011 at 03:23 PM.