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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-26-2009, 12:53 PM
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Monochrome - those Azaleas are exceptional. Well done!
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-31-2009, 06:05 PM
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Hin, I had some time today so I wrote up a review of the Tamron SP 400mm f/4 in the lens database. It's by no means definitive, but it's what I think about the lens so far. I'll probably repost that review on my blog and add sample photos at some point, but I haven't done that yet...
I saw your thread about looking for long fast lenses, but I never mentioned this lens to you because it's neither light nor cheap and those were two of your criteria :p.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-28-2009, 11:16 AM
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Hin, I'll give you a quick answer now, but I gotta walk out the door - I'll give you a better answer soon.
The SP 400/4 is heavier than the Bigma - the 1.4x adapter doesn't add that much weight, the 2x adds a bit more but it's still negligable... I can't contemplate hand holding something this heavy at 800mm, so that's a moot point. PF is fairly common with the lens in the black areas of high contrast transitions when using the TC, but as long as there is nothing purple in the shot, I'm having great results just desaturating the purple channel and darkening it (with purple flowers in the background I have to do some masking in Photoshop). CA exists, but using the TCs, it's less problematic than the CA I got from the BIGMA + Kenko 1.5x, and in most cases it is negligable.
Most of those shots are on a monopod, the osprey is on my tripod which really isn't beefy enough for this combo, but I'm on limited funds right now (aren't we all)...
Ok gotta go... more later.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-26-2009, 10:02 PM
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I've recently acquired another tammy - the Adaptall 2 SP 400mm f/4 ld-if... it's a lot of fun so far.
All these shots have been posted elsewhere, but not here in the club ;)...
Male Western Pond Turtle -
Male Osprey -
Turkey Vulture (indeterminate sex ;)) -
California Poppies -
Robin finds lunch -
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-03-2009, 11:32 PM
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Piotr, I love that shot of the sheep in the mountains - Awesome!
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Here's one from today with the 90mm Macro out in the rain (had a towel draped over the lens - it's like weather sealing ;)).
I posted this and more in the series over in the post your photos section...
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