Photos: birds & other critters, Sigma 50-500mm, K10D

[Don Kiyoti]

I've posted some photos on my Picasa page. These are all hand-held and uncropped. Picasa will only allow linking to 800 pixel versions; the ones I posted are 1000 pixels.

http://picasaweb.google.com/DonKiyoti/Sigma50500mmBigma

These are some of the ones that came out pretty well, not the failures! I'm finding that it's helpful to stop this lens down to ƒ8 or so and keep the ISO up but not too much or noise becomes distracting. I like 320. At 500mm the depth of field is very narrow and I miss more photos due to focus errors than camera shake. I wonder if maybe my K10D is back-focusing a little but I haven't tested to make sure. I haven't had a chance yet to shoot very many aircraft: that's going to be trickier.

[vision63]

Love these images. Very sharp and love the bokeh.

[M>B>]

A good definition of bokeh / boke...

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/bokeh.shtml

[blooz]

Excellent!

[Grateful11]

Very nice!

[wowzer]

Nice isolation. At 500mm, the lens has to be as still as ice. If there is any degree of camera shake, the image will suffer. Does the K10D have image stabilization built-in? If so, that'd be a great combination.

The Bigma is a fun lens...but it sure makes you want a 400-500 f2.8-4.0 lens.