Red Tail Hawk

Quite pleased with this one I took about half an hour ago.

Taken with DA*50-135 at 135mm F4:

lovely shot bob great detail, and nice colours, are there any more,

Cheers Scott, yeah there are a few more:

Excellent shots Bob, love the detail

Cracking photos this lens works realy well alongside the k20 whats your thoughts on the lens Bob.
Ian

Great detail. The eye is captivating.

My thoughts? I'll be here all day! Love the 50-135 a great deal.

This was my reaction in the first few days of having the lens: link

It's certainly been apparent looking at my output that the quality of my work has notched up a level with this lens, and makes me realise how crucial the glass you have in front as opposed to having a top notch camera body makes up the lions share of a great pic.

It is very sharp wide open which is quite possibly it's killer feature; though it gets even sharper at F4. I'm used to shooting at F8 with the kit lens to get results close to the 50-135 at 2.8. It's really made my life easier!

My only criticism of the lens is that at times it does'nt focus quite as well as I would like - it locks on, but then when reviewing the pics it occaisionaly had'nt focused properly, but my focusing screen at the moment is a tad scratched, so I assume that will be affecting it.

I'm a very happy camper though it has to be said.

I've cloned out the (whatever it is) that's on the beak:

Very, very, impressive, Bob!

Nice and sharp Bob. The lens is very impressive.
Looks better with that bit cloned out.... now you'll
have to do it on them all.

shim

Cheers Shim; but don't say that! It was quite a complex job to do that cloning effort. It took a while for it to look just right, as there was'nt a huge amount of 'source material' on that section beak to clone from. I think I might just leave it at that....