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Moon with 100-400 and Sigma 2x

Valentia · 2006-11-25 18:03:39

I discovered about an hour ago that the Sigma 2x works with the Canon 100-400IS. Yippee! OK the widest aperture is f11 at the 400 point but still. Here is a full frame of the moon. I'd recommend looking at the bigger size and a crop on my flickr stream to get an idea of the sharpness. Not too bad methinks. You can get to…

25-11-2006 6:03pm

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Valentia

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I discovered about an hour ago that the Sigma 2x works with the Canon 100-400IS. Yippee! OK the widest aperture is f11 at the 400 point but still. Here is a full frame of the moon. I'd recommend looking at the bigger size and a crop on my flickr stream to get an idea of the sharpness. Not too bad methinks. You can get to the Flickr version by clicking on the pic.

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#2 25-11-2006 6:17pm

Fenster

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Looks really great.

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#3 25-11-2006 6:21pm

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The larger version looks great, turned out pretty well.

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#4 25-11-2006 9:37pm

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Yep - looks good.

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#5 25-11-2006 11:17pm

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Thats a good shot in my book! I remember trying to get decent moon shots with a 300 mirror and x2 converter and got nothing that I was remotely happy with.

Mike.

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