HD DA 55-300 PLM WR RE
It's not to shabby in FF mode either (OOC dirty office window grabs) depending on the scene.
Brian.
LBA is good for you, a Lens a day helps you work, rest and play.
By heck, those rhomboidal clouds on the first picture are all kinds of odd
Brian.
LBA is good for you, a Lens a day helps you work, rest and play.
By heck, those rhomboidal clouds on the first picture are all kinds of odd
By decree of Nicola McSturgeon - Scottish clouds should be different to English clouds and resemeble a Saltaire
Assorted Pentax/Nikon/Mamiya stuff
Frimware update on K-3ii was straightforward.
Lens feels/looks smaller than I anticipated. When collapsed and on camera body. Just looking at the numbers you might think, not much of a difference and maybe you'd notice the increased width, but it seems noticably smaller.
Build quality - it feels very good IMO.
Only took one random image wide open at 55mm last night, but looked good.
this lens does not come with a pouch/soft case
18-135 @ 68mm 1/80s f/10 ISO100 (Part of a panorama, so excuse the weird framing and focal length!)
55-300 PLM @ 300mm 1/400s f/10 ISO125
100% crop of the above
The cross on top ofHallgrímskirkj showed some CA - but it was only a pixel top and bottom and disappeared completely with Lightroom's remove CA adjustment.
Thanks
This arrived this afternoon:
and will be put through its paces over the next week or so.
First impressions are good - well built, weighty, and no barrel-wobble like on the 18-50 RE. The zoom ring is a bit stiff and sticks a little at 100mm, but it probably won't be that noticeable when mounted.
If anyone want anything in particular looking at, let me know...
I would want to know how well this lens does in AF continuous tracking. Also how much of a difference does it make when using a K-3 II instead of K-70.
Basically I want to know whether the PLM 55-300 could possibly make the K-70 hover anywhere near the Canon 80D in case of action photography like Bird photography, sports etc.
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Only a KS-2, mind, so can't confirm on the improved AF capabilities of the K3/ii.
AF seemed good enough for an airshow... caught jets /helicopters ok at 300mm
though it really struggles when the object is coming straight at you at speed... i think this was noted on the usa forum review
also caught some birds ok on it
the retractability is indeed useful and quick to use when needed
focus ring seems fine in mf, only attempted landscape in mf though
Also seems to have some A/F problems!
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and will be put through its paces over the next week or so.
First impressions are good - well built, weighty, and no barrel-wobble like on the 18-50 RE. The zoom ring is a bit stiff and sticks a little at 100mm, but it probably won't be that noticeable when mounted.
If anyone want anything in particular looking at, let me know...