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600mm handheld .. reference shots anyone ?

  • 12-05-2008 6:40pm
    #1
    deevey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 707 ✭✭✭


    Hi All,

    I just bought a new DSLR for myself (e510) and a pentax adaptor and was playing about yesterday with a 300mm 4.6 my dad had knocking about (equiv 600mm on four thirds cam)

    Just wondering if anyone would be kind enough to point me in the direction of some similar shots for reference, I guess I'm just trying to judge if its any good at all ... fully manual and not the fastest in the fleet


    Few Samples here     @ Iso 1600 4.6(ish) 1/4000 (Didn't realize I had the ISO up so high .. oh joy)

    It does manage macro shots quite well.

    Any thoughts ?


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  • #2
    Ideo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,618 ✭✭✭Ideo


    Try sticking '600mm' into Pix.ie or Flickr and see what it comes back with!

    Were the shots handheld? I'd consider them pretty good given its your first try and there's an awful lot of shake at 600mm!


  • #3
    nilhg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,209 ✭✭✭nilhg


    If you want to have a poke through my flickr, quite a few of the more recent shots are taken with the 70-300, including all the macro type shots.

    I'm sure you know with the latest firmware you can manually input the focal length for the IS.


  • #4
    deevey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 707 ✭✭✭deevey


    Cheers for that ... excatly what I was looking for,

    The shots were handheld and manual focus .. I have some indoor ones with flash that came out 100% better.. but moving objects are more fun :P

    I upgraded the firmware within an hour of recieving the camera .. the IS most certainly a godsend.

    nice shots BTW :) The 70-300 looks like it might be on the cards soon enough how do you find it for focus speed ?.

    laters


  • #5
    nilhg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,209 ✭✭✭nilhg


    deevey wrote: »

    The 70-300 looks like it might be on the cards soon enough how do you find it for focus speed ?.


    Most of the time its fine, occasionaly it will miss focus and try to go throught its entire range and come back again, you soon learn to tap the shutter button to abort and recompose.

    Mine cost me €220 in a shop in one of the big electronics plazas in Kuala Lumpur when I was en route to OZ, I'd have to say it was great value.


  • #6
    PopeBuckfastXVI
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,155 ✭✭✭PopeBuckfastXVI


    Ideo wrote: »
    Were the shots handheld? I'd consider them pretty good given its your first try and there's an awful lot of shake at 600mm!

    it's only 300mm though, with an equivalent crop of 600 on a full frame camera according to the OP.


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  • #7
    deevey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 707 ✭✭✭deevey


    Or equivilant to 450mm on most other dslr's approx...

    Thorough the viewfinder its the same as shooting 600mm on full frame, still shakey, but a hullofalot more compact.


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