On 7/3/2011 11:03 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Amazing that you've done this without a tripod.
Thanks!
> I was shooting yesterday without a tripod in the Royal Botanical Garden in
> Edinburg.
> My results are not nearly as successful. :-)
As I said, this lens is particularly sharp when focused close at long focal
lengths. Then the IS (Tammy calls it
Vibration Control) combined with my relatively steady hand help a lot, too. I
will also have used Focus Magic.
Moose
>> . . .
>> 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>
>> . . .
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