Good eye! A scene like that would probably just pass me by, but you caught it and captured the image in style!

juju1958 wrote:

Getting ready for sea. Twenty minutes after this shot they were leaving to fish with a twenty four hour window of weather that was not fine but good enough to be at sea.

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_B200009 by JuliandeCourcy, on Flickr

My daughter with her iPhone (yes, hers...a friend's old one she gave us...no SIM):

Panasonic 35-100/2.8 @ 56mm, f/2.8, ISO 3200:

^ Beautiful!

One more from my recent visit to Milwaukee's Lake Michigan shoreline:

Jman13 wrote:
My daughter with her iPhone (yes, hers...a friend's old one she gave us...no SIM):



Great shot and yeah those are the best little "toys" for kiddos - My son uses my old Droid X for an Angry Birds machine

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Finally 1) got a chance to take a few photos and 2) wrangled Mogrify to get a border I wanted.


PB200372 by J L Smith, on Flickr


PB200358 by J L Smith, on Flickr


PB200343 by J L Smith, on Flickr


PB200339 by J L Smith, on Flickr


PB200327 by J L Smith, on Flickr

Jman13 wrote:
My daughter with her iPhone (yes, hers...a friend's old one she gave us...no SIM):

Panasonic 35-100/2.8 @ 56mm, f/2.8, ISO 3200:

ultrapix wrote:

Please give that f@@@@d SIM to your daughter; how can she call her boyfriend otherwise?

I think I'll wait until she's at least 5. Maybe 6.

I love the three images of the flooded trees. Wall hangers for sure!

^^ #2 is sweeettt

Nice shots Bob, like #2 directly above

all with 75 f/1.8

Just got the Pany 100-300 and I'm pretty amazed by its acuity. Well beyond my expectations.

Snapsy, thanks for posting this shot! I'm really struggling to make the decision between the Olympus 75-300 and the Pana 100-300. I really want a great, long lens. Hope to see more from your new lens!

RKTodd wrote:
Snapsy, thanks for posting this shot! I'm really struggling to make the decision between the Olympus 75-300 and the Pana 100-300. I really want a great, long lens. Hope to see more from your new lens!

Sure thing. Acuity tapers off as you get to 300mm but it's still acceptable with careful PP/sharpening. Here's a 300mm (600mm effective) image at f/5.6, cropped about 75%:

With the P/L 25 on a visit to a Buddhist center; the lady in the chair is a Sannyasi, and one of my best-ever friends.

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snapsy wrote:
RKTodd wrote:
Snapsy, thanks for posting this shot! I'm really struggling to make the decision between the Olympus 75-300 and the Pana 100-300. I really want a great, long lens. Hope to see more from your new lens!

Sure thing. Acuity tapers off as you get to 300mm but it's still acceptable with careful PP/sharpening. Here's a 300mm (600mm effective) image at f/5.6, cropped about 75%:

@ Snapsy: may you please show the uncropped pic?

OM-D with Panny 35-100 f/2.8 @ 68mm, f/4:

Fantastic shot Jman13

RKTodd

It depends upon how you use the long focal length lenses. At relatively close distances most of the m4/3 lenses are sharp enough. Problem comes when shooting near infinity. Thermal waves ruin even the best glass. It does not take much to get thermals either, I've gotten them in cooler weather with not much sun. Surprised me. Unfortunately, those are the conditions I shoot the long lenses with the most.

Aside: much impressed the Pana 45-175. Did not like on GH2 due to stabilizer problems. On the OMD it rocks. Here is a shot I took today. 129mm, 5.6, 1/250, iso800 - heavy fog here today.

Lleuallen wrote:
RKTodd

It depends upon how you use the long focal length lenses. At relatively close distances most of the m4/3 lenses are sharp enough. Problem comes when shooting near infinity. Thermal waves ruin even the best glass. It does not take much to get thermals either, I've gotten them in cooler weather with not much sun. Surprised me. Unfortunately, those are the conditions I shoot the long lenses with the most.

Aside: much impressed the Pana 45-175. Did not like on GH2 due to stabilizer problems. On the OMD it rocks. Here is a shot I took today. 129mm, 5.6, 1/250, iso800 - heavy fog here today.



My wife and I took a trip this past August to Glacier NP and got a lot of great images with a Nikon D3s and a 28-300 lens. The camera was great of course but I was sorely under glassed for shooting out there. I now have all the good M4/3 glass that everyone here is shooting (just added the Pana 35-100), and I'm very pleased with that range of focal lengths.

I am just hoping to find a decent long lens to take on those types of trips where I might want to capture a moose or grizzly without having to crop the image to death. Of course, those types of shots are going to be long distant ones.

Nice crisp shot of the cow! I'm just afraid the 45-175 wouldn't be long enough. I have a Panasonic 100-300 on hold at my local pro shop, and I plan to check it out on Friday.

Thanks for the info!