400mm f/5.6 macro?

traunerktraunerk Registered Users Posts: 513 Major grins
edited July 22, 2006 in Wildlife
here's a couple of close-ups taken with my 400 f/5.6. Can't exactly get too close, but it is a sharp lens, even handheld...

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Regards...Keith
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  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2006
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  • USAIRUSAIR Registered Users Posts: 2,646 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2006
    Wow that is good
    Will that lens except a ext. tub to get closer ?

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  • John MuellerJohn Mueller Registered Users Posts: 2,555 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2006
    Yep,one of my now favorite macro lenses.I use it more than the 180L.
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  • Bell RingerBell Ringer Registered Users Posts: 51 Big grins
    edited July 21, 2006
    Really Great Shots
    traunerk wrote:
    here's a couple of close-ups taken with my 400 f/5.6. Can't exactly get too close, but it is a sharp lens, even handheld...

    82933580-L.jpg

    82933555-L.jpg

    Regards...Keith

    Wow, what great shots. About how far away were you when you snapped these?clap.gif
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited July 22, 2006
    Love that dragonfly capture (I think that's the first time I've said that about a dragonfly shot). thumb.gif
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  • Dick on ArubaDick on Aruba Registered Users Posts: 3,484 Major grins
    edited July 22, 2006
    Well done. The 1st is surely my favorite.

    Thanks for sharing.

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  • traunerktraunerk Registered Users Posts: 513 Major grins
    edited July 22, 2006
    I think so...
    but i've never tried. these shots were at the close focus limit of the lens and slightly cropped - the limit i think is somewhere around 13 feet. (I should know, but i'm too lazy to look it up...)

    Regards...Keith
    USAIR wrote:
    Wow that is good
    Will that lens except a ext. tub to get closer ?

    Fred
    Beam me outta here!:winkKT
  • traunerktraunerk Registered Users Posts: 513 Major grins
    edited July 22, 2006
    about 14 feet, I think...
    Thanks for the comments...

    Regards...Keith

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    Bell Ringer wrote:
    Wow, what great shots. About how far away were you when you snapped these?clap.gif
    Beam me outta here!:winkKT
  • traunerktraunerk Registered Users Posts: 513 Major grins
    edited July 22, 2006
    Thanks Harry, - and Dick too...
    for the kind comments. I had to find something to do with the lens while i was waiting for the bald eagle to return...

    (and that could be a loooong wait...)

    Regards...Keith
    Harryb wrote:
    Love that dragonfly capture (I think that's the first time I've said that about a dragonfly shot). thumb.gif
    Beam me outta here!:winkKT
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