I've just been forced to buy a new lens

[Cock Womble 7]

y2blade said:

To be fair at 1/320th he'd have got the blur from the shaking of his other hand.

'Koff, you.

I knew I should have focused on the parking sign or something.

[y2blade]

Cock Womble 7 said:

y2blade said:

To be fair at 1/320th he'd have got the blur from the shaking of his other hand.

'Koff, you.

I knew I should have focused on the parking sign or something.

But (As you well know) If you'd have done that none of this lot would have bothered to reply

[RobDickinson]

IMO Shooting a long lens on a high pixel cropper needs a truckload of technique.

I would start at 1/2*focal length at a minimum if hand held, so 1/1000th.

Also with the 50-500 its best stopped down a little at the long end, you can get great results with it but shooting at 400-500mm on a modern high pixel body is a total complete new ball game.

I'd do some focus MA on it too as dof is also pretty slim even at longer distances.

[Cock Womble 7]

Thanks for the pointers Rob, I took this stepped down to f8 and with a bit more support:

[TheHeretic]

Where did you put the girls? Are they rubbing the lotion on their skin?

[2slo]

Cock Womble 7 said:

I took this stepped down to f8 and with a bit more support:

I don't think that needs any micro adj. The original subject matter was more interesting though

[Cock Womble 7]

Same shop had a Sigma x2 teleconverter in the window today.

So, 750mm becomes 1500mm:

[2slo]

You do realise that you're now on a slippery slope without any brakes. Soon you'll see that there are more advanced cameras, faster cards, carbon fibre tripods...

[mickk]

Am I the only one who wants to know what the taped up sign says.

[Cock Womble 7]

2slo said:

You do realise that you're now on a slippery slope without any brakes. Soon you'll see that there are more advanced cameras, faster cards, carbon fibre tripods...

Yes Mum

[jimmy156]

Blukoo said:

jimmy156 said:

AFMA helps though

A face mask always helps though?

Auto Focus Mirco Adjust

Sigma's can be perfectly sharp, i have this lenses little brother (120-400) which get worse reviews for sharpness but its pretty good at f/8 and using the centre AF point.


2012-09-15 by jimmyb156, on Flickr