I brought the bigma to work today. Using what I learned on Friday, plus a lens with twice the max focal length (500 vs 250mm), I took far fewer frames, but I think the results were a lot better.
I think that artistically, this is the best of the lot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/11526987596/ Here is today's set of 16: http://www.fluidr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157638969196746/ And for those that want to do a side by side of the tamron 18-250 versus the sigma 50-500, these are the ones I shot last week http://www.fluidr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157638889151025/ Observations: Even in these days of ridiculously high resolution sensors, focal length matters. Particularly at high resolution on my big monitor, a few of the photos looked just a bit rough in the noise department. It turns out that they were shot at ISO 6400. The twenty first century has done some very good things for photography. Even so, I really should have used my monopod so that I could have dropped the shutter speed and gotten more depth of field or a lower ISO. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
