Amazing that you've done this without a tripod. I was shooting
yesterday without a tripod in the Royal Botanical Garden in Edinburg.
My results are not nearly as successful. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 7/3/2011 11:22 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 6/22/2011 3:24 PM, usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> Yes,
>> Very nice. Looks like the 60D is getting the macro exercise these
>> days.
>>
>> Wondering when the Tammy macro gets out, Mike
>
> The Tamron 90/2.8 gets carried around a lot, but used seldom, for a couple of
> reasons.
>
> The Tammy is sharpest wide open, well, maybe at f4, but noticeably less sharp
> at f8. VERY different, about the reverse,
> from my older Zuiko, Tamron and Kiron MF macro lenses. That's wonderful for
> copy work and intentional shallow DOF. Not
> as great for flower, bug and such shots in the field.
>
> The Tammy 28-300s, perhaps the VC (IS) version particularly (more testing
> needed . . .) are very sharp in the central
> area at 2-300 mm when close focused. (The VC, at least mine, is distinctly
> less sharp than the original in that range at
> longer focal distances and infinity.) I don't even know what their edge
> sharpness and field curvature may be in those
> circumstances, as it's of no consequence.
>
> The combination of great sharpness at long working distances and moderate
> apertures for greater DOF is simply the best I
> have found for close-up/macro shooting in the field. I'm just not going to
> get shots like this with the macro lens,
> well, not nearly as often.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=California/Sugarloaf_Ridge_SP&image=_MG_2819fp.jpg>
>
> You can see from the full frame version to the left that I composed for FF,
> so the subject isn't in the center, but is
> nevertheless nicely in focus and pretty darn sharp. This shot was taken
> quickly, in case the bug decided to leave, hand
> held, in moderate shade.
>
> Don't get me wrong. It's possible to get excellent close-up nature results
> with the 90/2.8. The 28-300s are just more
> convenient and give away little if anything in the central regions (the whole
> 60D frame) when small apertures are used
> for DOF. And the reach is fabulous.
>
> If I were to set up with tripod for each shot, with Plamp, wind/sun
> screen/shade/diffusers, maybe fill flash, etc. the
> story might be different, perhaps better in some ways, but with fewer feeding
> bugs captured. But I'm usually on the
> move, using the tripod seldom, moving continuously between macro, middle
> distance and landscape, and so on. Well, you've
> wandered and photographed with me. . .
>
> Moose
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