Hi Tim I'm looking forward to see more photos from your experiments. You have them for free with the digital body, mine will take longer and cost a bit ;-) I will post test shots of cormorants here, and (psst, of course, fishermen do not like them here as well)... greetings Markus
>>-----Original Message----- >>From: Tim Øsleby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 12:35 AM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: RE: PESO: Fisrt attempt at birds >> >> >>I would be careful making drastic conclusions on this one shot. My Vivitar >>is in desperate need for a CLA. The aperture blades are slow, and it does >>not perform at its best near infinite. At closer range it performs a lot >>better. Your lenses could be the other way around. >> >>I would recommend doing some tests. Go out and fire away, just as >>I did. It >>could be a waste of film, but you also might be positively surprised. >> >>BTW. I have managed to get hold on another Vivitar S1 lens for a pretty >>cheap price. I like the built, and Mark Roberts says it is a very good >>performer, so I have decided to give it another go. I have not >>bought it as >>a bird lens, more a walk about long zoom. >> >> >>Tim >>Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) >> >>Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds >>(Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy) >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Markus Maurer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Sent: 20. mars 2006 00:20 >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: RE: PESO: Fisrt attempt at birds >>> >>> Hi Tim >>> I'm very interested in your results because I would like to get >>some bird >>> shots too and do not have the proper equipment too ;-) >>> You first sample does not look not very promising. I really wonder if I >>> should start doing birds with similar tools with film if you do not get >>> better results digitally :-( >>> >>> greetings >>> Markus >>> >>> >>-----Original Message----- >>> >>From: Tim Øsleby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 6:30 PM >>> >>To: [email protected] >>> >>Subject: PESO: Fisrt attempt at birds >>> >> >>> >> >>> >>My first attempt in my eco political photodoc "Fuglefjæra på >>> >>Nordfjordeid". >>> >>While waiting at my "new" long zoom, I am using my Vivitar 70-210 S1 >>> plus >>> >>AF1.7x. Not the best combo for this, but I got to start >>> >>somewhere. I have a >>> >>lot of practising ahead of me before I am a bird photographer. >>> >>http://foto.no/cgi-bin/bildegalleri/vis_bilde.cgi?id=225879&bruker >>> id=35178&n >>> omenus= >>> 400 ISO, tripod, f:6,5, 1/640, cropped to portrait format. >>> >>> I really need some feedback on this to get me going. This image is not >>> meant >>> as documentation on the specie, more a getting the "mood" picture. >>> >>> >>> Tim >>> Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) >>> >>> Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds >>> (Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy) >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >>
