I got a Bigma yesterday...

BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
edited November 23, 2005 in Wildlife
I bought a 2nd hand Bigma and got it yesterday, so took it off to a local heronry to try it out - WOW...

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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2005
    congrats on your new lens and your fine shots thumb.gif
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  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2005
    bfjr wrote:
    congrats on your new lens and your fine shots thumb.gif
    Thanks Ben!
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  • PossumCornerPossumCorner Registered Users Posts: 290 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2005
    Great, I'm not really lens-envious - well, just a pale green. Loved the hoopoe and the roller. What I really really envy is the birds you have there.
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2005
    Good to hear BigAl !

    Now the big 5 please.
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2005
    Congrats Al. That extra reach does make a difference. Good shots with less than ideal llighting.
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  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2005
    PossumCorner wrote:
    Great, I'm not really lens-envious - well, just a pale green. Loved the hoopoe and the roller. What I really really envy is the birds you have there.
    Thanks for looking. Believe it or not, the roller was taken with a Sony F707 and the hoopoe with the much maligned Canon 75-300.
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  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2005
    Humungus wrote:
    Good to hear BigAl !

    Now the big 5 please.
    Thanks Gus. I'm now almost ready for the big 5 - just need to get a vehicle mounted lens support system and a new ball head to go with it and... mwink.gif
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  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2005
    Harryb wrote:
    Congrats Al. That extra reach does make a difference. Good shots with less than ideal llighting.
    Thanks Harry. The extra reach is really worthwhile, but I'm most impressed with the quality. The lighting is not too hot because the pics were taken around 10am when the sun was already pretty high in the sky :cry
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2005
    BigAl wrote:
    Thanks Gus. I'm now almost ready for the big 5 - just need to get a vehicle mounted lens support system and a new ball head to go with it and... mwink.gif
    Manfrotto 222 ballhead mate. I cannot speak highly enough of it !
  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2005
    Congratulations Al
    BigAl wrote:
    I bought a 2nd hand Bigma and got it yesterday, so took it off to a local heronry to try it out - WOW...
    So how big is that GRIN ON YOUR FACE ?? rolleyes1.gif bet ya just can't stop smiling can ya mwink.gif well I am very happy for you, and Im sure we are about to see heaps nire pictures from you with this new toy :D
    All the Best Al........images look great to me...... Skippy (Australia)
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  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2005
    Humungus wrote:
    Manfrotto 222 ballhead mate. I cannot speak highly enough of it !
    Thanks Gus, will check it out. Have been looking at a Kirk, but it costs as much as both legs.
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  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2005
    Skippy wrote:
    So how big is that GRIN ON YOUR FACE ?? rolleyes1.gif bet ya just can't stop smiling can ya mwink.gif well I am very happy for you, and Im sure we are about to see heaps nire pictures from you with this new toy :D
    All the Best Al........images look great to me...... Skippy (Australia)
    Thanks Skippy. Never mind the grin, I need bigger muscles. I carried that beast for about 2km yesterday and I can really feel it eek7.gif
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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2005
    Great shots Al, Enjoy your new lens!

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  • Osprey WhispererOsprey Whisperer Registered Users Posts: 3,803 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2005
    Nice set of captures, Al thumb.gif Congrats on the new lens and hope you enjoy it. Keep an eye on it or Ben might try and put it on his pizza. eek7.gif:D
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2005
    Wonderful gets, Al: the lens AND the birds!

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  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2005
    Lord Vetinari wrote:
    Great shots Al, Enjoy your new lens!

    Brian V.
    Thanks Brian - means the bugs get a rest for a bit :D
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  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2005
    Bird Man Photographer wrote:
    Nice set of captures, Al thumb.gif Congrats on the new lens and hope you enjoy it. Keep an eye on it or Ben might try and put it on his pizza. eek7.gif:D
    Thanks Mike. Fortunately, it's a Canon mount so it won't fit in Ben's pizza rolleyes1.gif
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  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2005
    ginger_55 wrote:
    Wonderful gets, Al: the lens AND the birds!

    ginger
    Thanks Ginger. Getting the lens was one of those wonderful set of circumstances which sometimes comes one's way. I was all prepared to buy a Tamron 200-500 when I found an ad for the Bigma (which had been posted on my birthday), totally by accident.

    BTW, happy birthday to you for t'other day. iloveyou.gif
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  • helmet155helmet155 Registered Users Posts: 83 Big grins
    edited November 22, 2005
    Lookin good Big Al :ymca
  • Yuri PautovYuri Pautov Registered Users Posts: 1,918 Major grins
    edited November 23, 2005
    The results are fantastic, Alan!
    Congratulations!
    So what is your equipment now?
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  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited November 23, 2005
    helmet155 wrote:
    Lookin good Big Al :ymca
    Thanks !
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  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited November 23, 2005
    Yuri Pautov wrote:
    The results are fantastic, Alan!
    Congratulations!
    So what is your equipment now?
    Yuri
    Thanks Yuri. I have a Canon 350d, kit lens, 75-300mm, Sigma 105mm macro and now the Sigma 50-500mm (and never forget, I still have my Sony F707!)
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