CGrindahl wrote:
So please indulge me as I share a few photos from my ramble today with George's mint condition 35-200 f/3.5-4.5 AI-s with an equally pristine lens hood attached, the HK-15. This was not an appealing day for taking photos... 1:00 p.m. with temperatures a bit over 90 degrees and wearing a surgical mask. I promise to take the lens out earlier in the day, perhaps Sunday morning. Fortunately, temperatures are supposed to drop by then. I hope so since I'm not a hot weather person. I leave that to my friends in Florida...
So I stopped downtown San Rafael where there is a construction project underway. I thought I'd have a chance to shoot both wide and close. This was shot across the street at 35mm and at f/8. This is not a pretty shot but it gave me some good information.
I'm very happy with the sharpness at f/8, but then that probably isn't surprising to anyone. It is a rare lens that is sharp wide open but as the aperture is stopped down it sharpens.
This particular location is where a kitchen operates for homeless folks. It is remarkable in Marin which is one of the wealthier counties in California how many folks there are living on the edge. As I walked away from the construction site I saw this fellow.
This was shot wide open. I don't believe I was fully extended but I may have been. Then a block away I caught this photo. I was standing comfortably in the crosswalk with cars behind me waiting for the light to change... it is a long light... This was shot at f/5.6.
I saw some flowers tucked away as I headed toward my car and thought it was a good opportunity to evaluate close performance wide open at 200mm. I was happy with this shot.
In the following block I saw this out of the corner of my eye and decided to take a shot, this at f/8 somewhere in the 80-100mm range. The push-pull zoom/focus ring is a pleasure to use.
Not sure if you processed these, but, I don't see much charactor with the output. I'm not saying these are bad, I'm just saying the lens appears to be mediocre at best.
This was shot at f/5.6.
