Nice, Tom. I am very interested in seeing these. Good detail--do you think you gained anything? I think I did with my MKIII.
I just bought a 50D (thanks, Tim ) and I am going to sell my MKIII due to some unforseen circumstances--so the 50D is my "go to" camera now.
Tom, it's hard to say if it is better or not, but 1 has a ton of detail, 4 for the distance has wonderful focus. If you didn't say you were testing MA I would say this is a wonderful series. But I feel compelled to say something about the MA and that would require before and after, at least for my anal thinking. (jeez I'm gonna get hammered for that )
I messed with it on mine and backed it back out to 0. Have you felt a lens or two were focussing in front or behind? I know my 400 was before I had it calibrated. Maybe I'm just lucky that it is currently spot on?
Herderdog wrote:
Nice, Tom. I am very interested in seeing these. Good detail--do you think you gained anything? I think I did with my MKIII.
I just bought a 50D (thanks, Tim ) and I am going to sell my MKIII due to some unforseen circumstances--so the 50D is my "go to" camera now.
Hi Bonnie! Congrats on the 50D! I think you will find it every bit as good as the MKIII for photographing birds.
I do see a difference but I need to do some further tests. Did you use the MA on the MkIII?
Thomas Sanders wrote:
Hi Bonnie! Congrats on the 50D! I think you will find it every bit as good as the MKIII for photographing birds.
I do see a difference but I need to do some further tests. Did you use the MA on the MkIII?
Tom
Tom, I used it on the 300/2.8 plus settings for both tc's on the MKIII. It took a pretty good measure on the MKIII (as I recall -16 or something like that). I did it a little bit with other lenses--but they were more right on. I haven't checked it for a long time to see if I still think the MA setting is right on--or changed a bit.
I'd say you got em dialed in just about right, Tom. Excellent detail from what I can see from here. Relly like that shot of the GBH with that BG combo and the lawn mowing snow goose shots have a nice perspective.
That is some crazy details in #1
Great set here Tom
I heard people say that playing with the MA will improve the focus for the distance you're doin' the test...but once you the subject is further away or really close the focus will be off so it will need a re MA
I haven't been able to test this so i'm hopin' you can confirm or deny Basically i'm hopin' you to be our guinea pig
Nice bunch of shots Tom. I'll have to knuckle down and dial in lenses on my D300.
You're right about Lesser Snow Goose, it's the only subspecies on the west side of the continent. Your gull is a Glaucous-winged rather than a Glaucous. though.
Hi, Tom. I believe you're the only one that can tell whether the MA did work or not. I'm curious to know which system you used for the MA of the big lenses 300mm and 500mm and at which distance. For sure the first shot shows some sharp detail, I would think that was taken at close distance. The rest of the shots are very nice and detail are fine especially in #7. Very good job.
Socrate
Tim Kuhn wrote:
Tom, it's hard to say if it is better or not, but 1 has a ton of detail, 4 for the distance has wonderful focus. If you didn't say you were testing MA I would say this is a wonderful series. But I feel compelled to say something about the MA and that would require before and after, at least for my anal thinking. (jeez I'm gonna get hammered for that )
I messed with it on mine and backed it back out to 0. Have you felt a lens or two were focussing in front or behind? I know my 400 was before I had it calibrated. Maybe I'm just lucky that it is currently spot on?
Hey Tim
I do think I'm getting some front focus on the 500mm but it could just be bad techique. My 400 has always been solid so I'm gonna leave it be. The tests I ran were at 700mm with the TC on so I'm going to try some testing with the bare lens this weekend if weather permits.
Mr Zoom wrote:
I'd say you got em dialed in just about right, Tom. Excellent detail from what I can see from here. Relly like that shot of the GBH with that BG combo and the lawn mowing snow goose shots have a nice perspective.
Ken
Thanks Ken I'm trying to avoid the trap of messing around too much and getting lost.
) and I am going to sell my MKIII due to some unforseen circumstances--so the 50D is my "go to" camera now.
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