-rce- wrote:
I love this lens and have bought and sold it, I think, three times. I find some produce better sun stars than others.
What aperture was "Morning wing" taken at?
Rich
f/8
It's a nice lens, I like mine somewhat better (optically) after it came back from repair of an electric glitch (they re-calibrated it besides replacing a part)
Here's a few from a lens that's now with Tamron's repair facility in Germany due to a front focusing issue across to cameras. They aren't really sharp but somewhat appealing I find nevertheless; from the 9th of April:
These were from a later early morning during which I saw precious few birds but lots of dead spruce (euro spruce bark beetle) and the spruce being situated in a reserve means they aren't felled and cleared unless a hazard. The second one is at 1/60, 260mm and ISO1600 and fairly soft.
First time using the Kolari Magnetic Clip in Filters. I like the setup and changing the filters is pretty easy. The test images below are with the 10x ND filter. I love that I can change lenses without changing/moving the filter. I also like that this works really well with wide angle lenses such as the 12-24GM.
Looking through the trees, across the Lehigh County Zoo, across the rest of the preserve, and into the distance.
Tripod mounted A7rIII and Voigtlander 50mm f2 Apo-Lanthar Asph FE mount; silent shutter.
ISO 100, f8, 1/60 second.
Exposure Corrected +0.44 Stops.
November 5, 2021
At the top of the Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, PA.
Every year Putin’s Russia holds Victory Day parades. These used to be grandiose affairs. Tanks would roll. Planes would fly. And soldiers would goose-step in unison across Red Square as the ageing dictator looked on. I detested these militaristic displays, which had so little to do with the remembrance of the Second World War, and so much more to do with state-sponsored ‘greatness’. And yet I am certain I speak for many Russian liberals if I were to admit that somewhere in the depth of my ‘humiliated’ conscience I, too, was stirred by the sound and fury. It took a conscious effort to purge the poison of militarism – an effort too many Russians were simply unwilling to make even if they recognised the problem. And they didn’t.
Now Ukraine has punctured a big, gaping hole in the narrative of Russia’s ‘greatness’. Russia is poor, corrupt and authoritarian, and now we also know that it is weak and pathetic. Russia’s ‘greatness’ has crumbled in an orgy of murder and rape inflicted by brutal occupiers in Ukraine. Tainted by the blood of the innocents, and beaten in honest combat, the bully has been reduced to size. It’s about time. Thank you, Ukraine, for serving this bitter medicine. Russia needed it badly.
...Likewise have a great weekend Douglas 
