My first 500mm shot

[belibeli]

I did it with my Tamron zoom 200-500mm.

[Tom LaPrise]

Nice reach, belibeli! How far away were you from that (apparently 4-eyed!) duck?

[belibeli]

Tom LaPrise wrote:

Nice reach, belibeli! How far away were you from that (apparently 4-eyed!) duck?

About100 feet. No tripod. KM 7D

Here is the data:


2006:05:01 11:50:09
460mm
690mm (in 35mm film)
1/200 sec, f/9
Mode: Program
Metering: Multi-segment
ISO: 100
White balance: Auto
Flash: Off
File size: 2301KB
Image size: 3008 x 2000
Saturation: Normal
Sharpness: Normal
Contrast: Normal

[LadyhawkVA]

Excellent photo.

[malinstreak]

Thats steady hands. Very sharp.

[LT7]

Very nice Louis, nice reach you go there with that lens, and another testament to Anti-shake. :-)

LT

[kenmck15]

Woow

Great optics, so clear and sharp and yes a ery steady hand

nice

ken

[IMCRAZYABOUTPHOTOS]

PERFECT, PERFECT, PERFECT PICTURE!! THAT LUCKY DUCK.....MAGNIFICO!!

[wadge1]

excellent pic belibeli

I was just wondering. You say the shot was taken from approx 100 feet.

Has the pic been cropped or is that straight out of the camera. The reason i'm asking is that i have just bought a sigma 80-400mm lens and i am amazed at how close you got to the bird from that distance. I am basically trying to work it out if there is much of a difference between a 500mm lens and a 400mm lens.

I'm using a nikon d50 what camera do you have. I never even considerd the lens you have and if it takes pics like that i want one ha ha ha

I very nearly went for the 50-500mm sigma lens but it didn't have OS.

any help would be much appreciated

[belibeli]

wadge1 wrote:

excellent pic belibeli

I was just wondering. You say the shot was taken from approx 100 feet.

Has the pic been cropped or is that straight out of the camera. The reason i'm asking is that i have just bought a sigma 80-400mm lens and i am amazed at how close you got to the bird from that distance. I am basically trying to work it out if there is much of a difference between a 500mm lens and a 400mm lens.

I'm using a nikon d50 what camera do you have. I never even considerd the lens you have and if it takes pics like that i want one ha ha ha

I very nearly went for the 50-500mm sigma lens but it didn't have OS.

any help would be much appreciated

I don´t remember how much distance was, I kow it was very far away maybe 25m -30m, a just say 100 feet for a "donut numbers". I didn´t cropped it.

The Tamron 200-500 mm I have red in many webs is much better than the Sigma 50-500mm.

Here you are a new one, it was taken "about" 300feet , the animals was running,notripod.





Regards.