All told I took 12 photos of the egrets with the 500mm. Maybe three
more wouldn't be bad if I processed them, thought the only one that's
sharp of an egret in the air is of it's Arse end.
Graydon wrote:
On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 08:44:37PM -0400, P. J. Alling scripsit:
Just a few quick shots with El Cheepo Kalimar 500mm mirror lens.
[snip]
Those are some spiffy egret pictures.
My conclusion. This isn't a bad little lens. Based on my test shots,
when I do everything right, I wouldn't be embarrassed to show 8x10 and
maybe larger prints from images made with it. It does have the
typical donut shaped out of focus highlights, but they're not
objectionable if you're careful using it.. It's very lightweight,
lighter than the F 70-210 and not a lot larger. Unlike most of the
cast off photo gear people seem to think I can give a good home to
it's actually useful.
My experience trying to do bird photography with mirror lenses is that a
tripod is really important; the depth-of-field is so damn thin that
inhaling can move the focus point off the bird, never mind any slight
front-to-back motion.
I'm impressed if that was all you took; I rarely get better than 1 in 5
acceptably in focus with the 800mm Rokinon. (It's damn sharp when in
focus; I'm just not so good at manual focus.)
-- Graydon
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