DA* 300mm f/4 Pics

Having had a play with the DA* 300mm f/4 at SRS today, I was very impressed, but looking back at the pics I'm disappointed... in myself. SHould have tried more apertures, ideally on a tripod. However, here are a couple that I took.

First, some ducks, no. 1 is cropped down to about 1/2 the frame. No. 2 is detail shown at 100%. This was at f/4, 1/125s, ISO 100, on my K10D.







No. 3 is a different duck, again at f/4, again cropped down and shown at 100%.





These are looking straight up at the clouds, I was hoping to see how even illumination was, and there wasn't a white wall to point it at. Unfortunately the clouds were a little varying in shade, but it looks good to me.



f/4



f/4.5



f/5.6

Focusing was quick and quiet (first time I've been able to try the DA* lenses out, no-one's got them round my way). A lot lighter than my Tamron too.

Dan

Considering the overcast day, those are impressive pictures from what I can see. A little difficult to see if there's any vignetting at f4 from the clouds, but that wouldn't worry me too much. Thanks for the photo's Dan.

I've been warned that if I want to by anything again, ever, I have to sell lenses first As that's the case, my Bigma might become available soon

I think I might be right in thinking that the DA* 300mm as well as the DA* 200mm lenses are full frame so you're not terribly likely to run into vignetting issues.

Could be wrong tho...

Will

Bigma, cheap? Might be interested!

Not sure about how cheap I'll post on this forum first if/when I come to sell anything.

Danny, I keep meaning to ask, in your signature it says "1.4x SDM converter". As there isn't an actual designated SDM converter yet, I'm wondering what one it is, as I have a Tamron 1.4x that has the power zoom contacts and was wondering if that would still use the SDM motor, or switch over to the body motor.

Ta,
Dan