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a6000 + MC11 + 150-600: starting from the hardest job... - stoppingdown - 05-06-2016 ... BIF... In a very very lazy mode:
Very first impressions (subjective, without any attempt to get an objective measurement):
I'll post more in the next days. PS Focals used below are: 500mm, 600mm, 400mm, 400mm, 600mm. a6000 + MC11 + 150-600: starting from the hardest job... - stoppingdown - 05-06-2016 Hell, the JPEG compression did awful things... a6000 + MC11 + 150-600: starting from the hardest job... - Brightcolours - 05-06-2016 The photos appear to have a lot of noise (especially the 1st airplane one. Did you use a very high ISO setting, and if so, how come/why? And yes, very heavy JPG compression also. Nice that you are happy with the combo Certainly a lot easier to work with than the Tamron 500mm f8 I have for my 6D (but I like it for its weight and size, no wrist issues there). a6000 + MC11 + 150-600: starting from the hardest job... - davidmanze - 05-06-2016 Progress is obviously being made "stopping down"! BIF look OK, distant airplanes cropped are taxing due to haze and magnification...best start with closer subjects....... Your friend is the ability to fill the frame, while your enemy is cropping. One thing I learnt when going from APSc to FF with a powerful zoom is: Yes,...you use the "sweet spot" of the lens on APSc but then you have to magnify it by 2.25 to get the same size image........; ...that then gives you a bitter-sweet spot! Oh and eat plenty of spinach! a6000 + MC11 + 150-600: starting from the hardest job... - stoppingdown - 05-07-2016 "Your friend is the ability to fill the frame, while your enemy is cropping." True: of course I can't do a reasonable test just out of my window I went auto ISO setting speed at 1/800 and never minded at the value, even though they weren't high: 200, 125, 160, 250, 200. The true reason is probably the fact that I didn't ETTR, and e.g. the aircraft got underexposed, with whited pushed in PP. It wasn't a test about the overall quality: just the handling and AF tracking speed. a6000 + MC11 + 150-600: starting from the hardest job... - Brightcolours - 05-07-2016 That is fine, I just wondered to why it looked so noisy a6000 + MC11 + 150-600: starting from the hardest job... - davidmanze - 05-07-2016 For test shots your window came up trumps i would have said, I don't get much outside of mine. It would be interesting to try out the C's ability close up @ 600mm.........the Tamron does great at minimum MFD, very sharp indeed, probably to do with focus breathing not making it a 600mm FL....it's difficult to tell how much it breaths because of the enormous blurring. ......and a test for specular highlights.......for onion bokeh I got a couple of yellow Wagtail shots from my bird hide the other day......the little thing was less than two meters.....good sharpness for 600mm! https://www.flickr.com/photos/124690178@N08/ a6000 + MC11 + 150-600: starting from the hardest job... - stoppingdown - 05-08-2016 Yesterday I tried with some flowers (I found no easy wildlife around, and for landscape the air was too hazy)... and even with a couple of extension tubes, for verifying close up capabilities. I'm post-processing the photos, I'll let you know. PS Klaus, the notification email seems to work again, thanks. a6000 + MC11 + 150-600: starting from the hardest job... - stoppingdown - 05-09-2016 First real shots on the field: flowers. http://stoppingdown.net/blog/asphodelus-albus/ a6000 + MC11 + 150-600: starting from the hardest job... - Brightcolours - 05-10-2016 Nice, the lens has pretty gentle bokeh rendering. |