Hi Tim You will have to change your sleep behavior anyway, the birds are active on the morning (my problem) or evening ;-) Even the $20 Soligor 350mm produced some quite nice pictures for me, the photo was made from a distance of about 20 meters full open at F 5.6 and maybe 1/500 sec. The photo is color adjusted and sharpened on the computer as good as possible, I have to do because the scanner is aging too. Pointing into direct light or bright sky, this lens produces a lot of flare and purple "haze", under worst conditions you can not see anything at all in the viewfinder.
So lets start a "crap-lens" competition, I will do some bird shots soon with the mirror lens and the Pentax A200/4 and converter. Since you use a digital body, your results have to be a lot better than my film/scanner path ;-) And, using Pentax bodies, it will even be on topic. Picture of a friendly dog (crappy Soligor M42 350mm F5.6 lens on the SFXn): http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4258017&size=lg (248 KB) greetings Markus >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Tim Øsleby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 12:10 AM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: RE: PESO:under the (good) influence of the PDML >> >> >>Not bad for a crap lens ;-) >>Kidding. I like what I see. I'm looking forward to some more. >> >>BTW. My "wonder" is most likely arriving tomorrow. I'm so exited >>that don't >>know if I'll be able to sleep. >>That's LBA. I'm in serious trouble ;-) >> >> >>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: 24. mars 2006 21:25 >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: PESO:under the (good) influence of the PDML >>> >>> Hi Pentaxians >>> >>> under the influence of the PDML: >>> ------------------------------- >>> >>> I tried the "poor mans tele", the SP 500/8mm Tamron mirror lens handheld >>> on >>> the SFXn with 1/250 from a distance of about >>> 200 Meters to test it for the next challenge, the birds shots ;-) The >>> picture is adjusted and sharpened on the computer to compensate for the >>> loss >>> of the flatbed negative scan. >>> >>> >>> under the influence of the wonderful industrial photos of "Fotoralf": >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> I choosed an industrial subject in "Fahrweid" in the State of Zurich >>> Switzerland too ;-) >>> >>> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4256519&size=lg (291KB) >>> >>> >>> I'm pretty sure now that I can use that mirror lens to get some decent >>> photos as long as the lightning and background conditions are good. >>> >>> enjoy and more test shots soon to be seen in this theater... >>> greetings >>> Markus >>> >>> >> >> >>
