Digital SLR musing

[srw]

I bought the 320mm zoom yesterday. It's a bit plastic, but seems solidly built and to be giving sharp results. @User has also kindly lent me his mirror lens, which is giving gobsmacking close-ups.

Unfortunately this laptop seems to be moaning when I ask it to read SD cards, so I'll have to try again with a different PC.

 

[srw]

A few months later I've now been away and come back. This post on a different thread shows the results of using the 320mm zoom on our holiday in various of the Shetland Islands, and I'm extremely happy with them. Some, but not all, of those photos have been cropped, and all have been shrunk down to a lower file size and slightly lower JPEG quality. I haven't used any image manipulation software at all to adjust the exposures, but I can see how doing so would help some of them.

Since the box is sitting in front of me, what I've been using is an FA80 (f4.5) - 320 (f5.8) zoom. The interwebs tell me it was manufactured between 1997 and 2002. The interwebs also tell me that it's useless for birds. I think I might have demonstrated the interwebs wrong. We did also see seals and (just) an otter, but they were far too far away to take a photo of. I'll have to go back and try and find an otter, but I've already got plenty of seal photos from Orkney.

I still have @User's 500mm lens, which I will return. Thanks again to all for your suggestions.

 

[Crackle]

Your Tern shot is really good and you're right, a few simple tweeks in something like Lightroom would really lift those pictures from good to excellent. of course that's all subjective but as a for instance...

Tweeked