The blotchiness isn't objectionable. I think I actually prefer the full frame. It has an 'off into the wild blue yonder' feel to it.
There are some good lenses in Tokina's AT-X series. I have a 24-40 f2.8 that I used to use quite a lot. Heavy bastard - unfortunately it's now in my 'to be repaired' drawer. It developed a sticky aperture :-( Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 23:56:01 -0600, "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Doug Franklin" > Subject: Re: Airplane II, The Sequel > > > > William Robb wrote: > > > >> ... Tokina AT-X 80-200/2.8 > >> > >> http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/temp/airplane.html > >> > >> I don't know how high those things fly, but its a few miles away from me. > > > > I don't know how high that one is, but it's considerably lower than the > > max cruise altitude for that aircraft type if you got that much frame > > filling with a 200. :-) Some of those big people haulers can cruise > > close to or over 40,000 feet. > > The shot I posted was quite a bit of a crop. > Heres the full frame, resized for the web and showing some interesting > blotchiness. > http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/temp/full9861.jpg > > William Robb > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
