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Re: Shooting Telephoto Lenses for Maximum Sharpness
If a tripod or monopod is too cumbersome, one can always use a length of light chain or non stretchable rope and anchor the rope or chain under a foot, with the other end tied/secured to the tripod foot of your lens or camera - preferably the lens foot - and apply upward pressure away from the ground that you are anchored… -
Re: Shooting Telephoto Lenses for Maximum Sharpness
Probably similar thought processes as mine when I get on-site and realise I've forgotten batteries / cards etc :) Well, my beanbag is a no-expenses spared one ... Neoprene sleeve (with zip) for some sort of tablet / ipad thingy, bought from a £1 shop. Approx 28cm x 19cm with about 1.6Kg of bird seed infil - which I change… -
Shooting Telephoto Lenses for Maximum Sharpness
I received an email from Quigsby recently, asking for pointers about getting sharp images with the new Tamron SP 150-600mm f5-6.3 Di VC USD lens. I own one of these, and find it reasonably sharp. I suspect folks who have not previously used a 600mm lens, MAY, not fully appreciate the techniques required to shoot images… -
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Been trying to take something worth posting of late with minimal luck. Been using a 300mm Nikkor F4 with a D7000 both with and without an aftermarket 2x multiplier. Went to the local park to try to take pictures of the nesting cormorants with no luck. I think that part of my error is shutter speed, which I can fix by… -
Re: Shooting Telephoto Lenses for Maximum Sharpness
For long lens images of birds, I would start with a shutter speed of 1/1250. Open your lens wide open, in Manual mode and see what ISO is required to get a good RAW file and try to keep the histogram to the right. This will give you the best RAW data to start your image editing with. If you have enough light on your… -
Re: Shooting Telephoto Lenses for Maximum Sharpness
Hello everyone, New to the group/site and discussions. Been shooting since early '80s. But that only means there is still more to learn, just learning is easier based on past knowledge. I shoot car racing almost exclusively. And on my long lens (sigma 150-500) I always use my monopod. Does not matter. I also never shoot at… -
Re: Shooting Telephoto Lenses for Maximum Sharpness
Some of this is repetitious, but here goes from a sports shooter's perspective. People tend to treat length as somewhat linear, e.g. 400 is about twice as hard as 200, etc. Not true -- there's a knee in the curve. I suspect it depends on equipment and your own hands, but for me it's around 600-700mm. When I shift from a… -
Re: Shooting Telephoto Lenses for Maximum Sharpness
@pathfinder , @puzzledpaul , @Ferguson Thank you very much for the the thoughts. I printed out a sheet of paper and taped it to a piece of plywood I had laying around (woodworking being another time-consuming, expensive hobby). I took pics of it both in Live View and not, using AF and racking the focus after each shot.… -
Re: Shooting Telephoto Lenses for Maximum Sharpness
Let's get long lens technique thoroughly sorted first, and then talk abut various image sharpening techniques in the Finishing School forum as that is the location for image editing discussions. But the short answer is yes, I do use LR5, and other techniques if needed in Photohshop also. I also use the lens profiles… -
Re: Shooting Telephoto Lenses for Maximum Sharpness
I essentially agree with P's approaches / techniques as outlined above - even tho' I rarely adopt them, for one reason or another :) The only time I generally use a tripod (no centre column) is when am after (fairly standard) BIF shots - in my case, herons with nesting material in their gobs. On these occasions I use an…
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