I believe this is the same Cardinal from "The Victor!", having chased
off his rival. He moved to a different tree. I shot this with my
Vivitar Solid Cat. 600mm f8.0 hand held at 1/800 sec. It's pretty
respectable for a Mirror Telephoto, the only really noticeable ring
Bokeh, visible is from a branch quite a bit in front of the bird. While
this is a pretty heavy lens, it weighs more than the camera, (though not
by much), it seems to be quite hand holdable with the K-5II. This image
is a crop of a bit under 1/3 of the frame. I could probably make a
decent 8x10 inch print from this file, thought the branches in front of
the bird mean I probably won't.
A couple of other observations, I really need a split image focusing
screen for manual focus, The K-5II thought something was in focus but
the sharpest object in the frame was the small branch just in front of
the bird. I don't know if it's from subject movement or being just a
bit out of the limited DOF from this lens, but the Birds head and eye
are not quite sharp enough in the full resolution file, though his
breast feathers seem to be. The K-5II files can take a lot of abuse
before they begin to fall apart.
I always thought that the Series 1 Solid Cats were multi coated, but I
noticed that there doesn't seem to be any of the usual coating
reflections you see even with single and double coated lenses, and no
mention of Vivitar's vmc coating on the lens. Anybody have any
information on that?
Well onto the photo.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20theVictorII.html
Pentax K5II w/Vivitar Series 1 600mm f8.0 Solid Catadioptric Lens.
As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored.
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