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Forum: Lens Clubs 01-08-2014, 02:25 PM  
300mm plus Lens Club: discuss your long lenses
Posted By jiimaa
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Well, are you within bicycle distance of the birds, or do you really need that car you have outside.

I'd personally like the sigma but the birds are too far away.
Forum: Lens Clubs 11-05-2013, 06:27 AM  
300mm plus Lens Club: discuss your long lenses
Posted By jiimaa
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Jesus, Andrew.

99 % of the time, I'm thinking, what the hell is wrong with people, and why don't they take better pictures - and me too. What's wrong with including me.

Every now and then I give the thumbs up to pictures here. They're the ones I want to see, and ones I'm going for myself.

Then there are pics like the Df M by Andrew here. If only we had more copies of you (and there are, in this forum, and in this thread), I could just gather up my gear, sink it into the swamp, and then just sit back and look at the pictures never so much as thinking about taking a better one myself.

There's real tension in there, and sense of immediate action is about to unfold, there's both directional motion and momentum, as well as rotational, and the locked eyes - the plans and maneuvers have just revealed, and the flight surfaces tell how they're executed, and as the canvas there's sense of empty space and altitude, and colors are really pleasant - all in all, pretty much any elements in there are a maximum of hairwidth from being absolutely perfect. They're all compositional or other issues - the meat itself, the action at decisive moment, is captured perfectly. I'd like this pic twice if they'd let me.
Forum: Lens Clubs 08-11-2013, 12:27 PM  
300mm plus Lens Club: discuss your long lenses
Posted By jiimaa
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Thanks all

I had some doubts about the DA*300 before yesterday, but after those 200 pics at flickr, I have no reservations any longer. It works like I've seen no other lens work. I'm not sure why I haven't had it do it's thing to me before, but somehow it just clicked yesterday. For the record I don't own it but played with a copy for about a week.

Oh and the light in the upper pic (and most at flickr): I positioned myself to where the road made a curve to right side of the frame so I would be directly in front of the cars, and also there's an intersection to the right - the cars are in the middle of the intersection - and on that intersection, there's a very subtle sunshine hitting from the right side illuminating the car, and leaving the background darker (it's mostly cloudy day). I'm literally looking through the DA*300, and when the car "lights up", short burst at 7 fps. One of the 3-5 images was always pin sharp. Like clockwork. Only headache was the K-5 buffer size; it fills up even when shooting JPEGs.

In the lower pic I had moved back a few hundred meters to get to lower point of view; didn't find a good spot light-wise but a few low angle shots were OK nonetheless.
Forum: Lens Clubs 08-11-2013, 04:10 AM  
300mm plus Lens Club: discuss your long lenses
Posted By jiimaa
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Car cruising; shooting these, I tought I may have brought the wrong lens with the DA*300, but upon getting home and opening them in LR I saw it was the opposite - everyone who had not brought the DA*300 had brought the wrong lens.

Full set 200+ pics: Linnacruising 2013 - a set on Flickr

Some off the top:


IMGP7234.jpg by jiimaa, on Flickr


IMGP7494.jpg by jiimaa, on Flickr
Forum: Lens Clubs 08-05-2013, 01:19 PM  
300mm plus Lens Club: discuss your long lenses
Posted By jiimaa
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Snack thief getting away with it, witnessed by myself and DA*300.


IMGP6332.jpg by jiimaa, on Flickr


IMGP6333.jpg by jiimaa, on Flickr

Which the swan calmly proceeded to retaliate to any next copy within reach.


IMGP6359.jpg by jiimaa, on Flickr
Forum: Lens Clubs 06-05-2013, 10:29 PM  
300mm plus Lens Club: discuss your long lenses
Posted By jiimaa
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It's the 70-300 APO DG Macro; I've tried and tried, and given up on it. Here it is at it again, backfocusing ever so slightly for no reason other than to lure me into raising the f to reduce speed to foil the next shots of it taking flight.



The bird is clearly plotting with the lens against me



"You got him to mess the settings? Good, I'll take off now!"

Forum: Lens Clubs 06-05-2013, 03:00 AM  
300mm plus Lens Club: discuss your long lenses
Posted By jiimaa
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I have a lens I actively avoid touching. It causes more headache than no other. I call it the headache. It's not a bad lens! It's OK sharp, it's OK reach, it's affordable, and it's pretty much OK in any way one would except. Today, a black woodpecker decided to show up yelling on my backyard. All I had readily available were too short, and the headache. So I chose the headache... It did OK when nothing interesting was going on.


IMGP0383.jpg by jiimaa, on Flickr

But the thing with the headache is, it always falls short when it counts, with 100 % certainty. It's just by a hair not good-, fast- or whatever-enough, so when I think Wooo-yeaa I did not just click at the very exact moment I needed to get the shot, did I, I might as well not have, because the lens wasn't focused or the body set up anywhere near it would have had to in order to produce a result.

So today, as always, the moment a photo op came along, it did it's thing. I swear it made me fiddle with the settings I would normally go for to be something else entirely.



I don't even. How does a lens make me do these things.
Forum: Lens Clubs 05-21-2013, 02:16 AM  
300mm plus Lens Club: discuss your long lenses
Posted By jiimaa
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Interrupted this guy's lunch, sorry. Sigma 150-500 f/5-6.3 non-OS, 500mm and as open as it gets f/6.3, 1/1000 sec, ISO 4000, K-5, "some" post processing meaning quite a bit of sharpening, noise reduction, things to colors and more.


IMGP9856.jpg by jiimaa, on Flickr

I may have gone a bit over with the green, but then again it's spring.
Forum: Lens Clubs 05-03-2013, 07:06 AM  
300mm plus Lens Club: discuss your long lenses
Posted By jiimaa
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Hey I want to join this club too, although I don't technically own a 300mm lens I have borrowed one just a few days ago.

The 1st time shooting other than test shots with Sigma 150-500 (non-OS). And the 1st time out shooting with anything longer than 300mm.


IMGP8735.jpg by jiimaa, on Flickr


IMGP8761.jpg by jiimaa, on Flickr


IMGP8939.jpg by jiimaa, on Flickr


IMGP8970.jpg by jiimaa, on Flickr

Also I think it was the 1st time I was shooting swans... or shooting birds on purpose. Wait, now that I think of it, actually it's the 1st time I was out for a day just for shooting. Normally I just shoot spontaneously, or while doing other stuff, or just grab the thing when going somewhere. This was for no other purpose than to go shoot birds. Come to think of it, I had no idea I haven't actually been out shooting, just for shooting. Also, the first time I ran out of space on memory card, with 750 frames on one, and 100 more on a borrowed card. That yielded some 160 frames to keep. About the gross amount on my typical day with a camera, of which max 30 are okay. I should probably go out a second time.

Had a few problems with blown out whites with these, any tips? I had TAv, f/8, 1/1000s in most pics, with auto ISO between 200-100k, then did quite a bit of post at LR, set the same basic things for unified "feel" for all, then refined the exposure and black/white clipping for each.

And now that I look at these from not my own display, I may have gone a bit far with the colors and highlight recovery too, or then the display I'm looking at isn't anywhere near calibrated, or both. Tried to go for a really popping look which would make me wonder why the f*** don't I ever get pictures like that.


Edit: Also, I have no idea why the EXIF would ID the lens as Sigma 70-200mm F2.8 EX DG Macro HSM II. While I have (borrowed and) used that too and I quite enjoyed it, I don't think the 150-500 should identify as that same lens, should it? How do I stop it from doing that...
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