Post by lar on May 25, 2016 19:03:09 GMT -5
While I was trying out my new Tamron 150-600mm lens on Saturday night I thought I'd test the vibration compensation. I shot this hand held at 600mm, ISO 8000 (far more than I thought my camera would tolerate), f/6.3 (wide open), 1/20 second.
It was about midnight, I was standing near the front door of the Cobblestone, and this shot is of the gas station on the southeast corner of the main drag. I'm thinking that it was almost a half mile away. When I processed the photo I did as little cropping as possible to reduce it to 8 X 10 size and used only a little noise correction. I did reduce the exposure as the lights were overexposed in the photo. Given that this was shot hand held I'm more than impressed with the result. It's not what I would call a high quality photo and it won't be going into my portfolio. However, I did tax the abilities of both my camera and the lens and they performed admirably under horrible circumstances.
For those of you who are camera buffs and who may be considering a very long lens, I should point out that this lens runs about $1,000. As nearly as I can tell the only real competition are a Sigma 150-600mm at about the same price and the Canon 600mm prime telephoto lens that sells for $11,500. I eliminated the Sigma because the reviews I read seemed to favor the Tamron by a small margin. So it came down to a choice between the Tamron and the Canon. Canon lost by $10,500.
It was about midnight, I was standing near the front door of the Cobblestone, and this shot is of the gas station on the southeast corner of the main drag. I'm thinking that it was almost a half mile away. When I processed the photo I did as little cropping as possible to reduce it to 8 X 10 size and used only a little noise correction. I did reduce the exposure as the lights were overexposed in the photo. Given that this was shot hand held I'm more than impressed with the result. It's not what I would call a high quality photo and it won't be going into my portfolio. However, I did tax the abilities of both my camera and the lens and they performed admirably under horrible circumstances.
For those of you who are camera buffs and who may be considering a very long lens, I should point out that this lens runs about $1,000. As nearly as I can tell the only real competition are a Sigma 150-600mm at about the same price and the Canon 600mm prime telephoto lens that sells for $11,500. I eliminated the Sigma because the reviews I read seemed to favor the Tamron by a small margin. So it came down to a choice between the Tamron and the Canon. Canon lost by $10,500.
