Yet another flying swan pic, this one from yesterday. I was getting tired of carting around long zooms; they're so big and heavy and fiddly. So my kit was the *istD, the Pentax M 200mm f4.0 and the Tamron SP 90mm f2.5 Macro. Both nice light, easy to carry lenses.
I'm quite impressed with the M 200mm. It's noticeably sharper than either zoom I use. This photo is about a 25% crop (is that right? I mean to say I cropped out about 75% of the original frame). Given that amount cropped, plus I was shooting manual focus and panning, I'm pretty happy with how sharp this is: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/synchronized.html I'm happier with this than the flying swan pic from the other day taken with the heavy Tokina 80-200mm f2.8 zoom: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/swans-on-wing.html Anyway, hope you like. Comment if you will. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
