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Ok folks, we have extremely cold/snower weather here, but the sun peaked out for a few hours. I got a chance to take the 600 f/4 IS outside to the backyard for a "maiden voyage".
First, a little about why I bought this expensive piece of kit. I love wildlife photography, plain and simple. I know that the chances of making a great living at it may be slimmer than say a wedding/portrait photog, but I do it for the fun and enjoyment.
So, for the last year I shot with a Sigma 50-500. Now, that lens was always racked out to 500mm, and the max aperture was 6.3. Well, the lens was more than enough for the first few months, but as I improved, the lens began holding me back in the early morning/ late evening available light hours. Now, the Sigma is fairly sharp and for the price (I paid $1050 new) is a heck of a lens. However, the slight lack of sharpness and the CA slarted erking me. So somehow I convinced the wife I needed the Canon 600mm and all the apropriate accessories.
Back to the maiden voyage...crap weather, but a couple of sparrows in the neighbors yard. These are JPEG straight out of camera images. Only resized, no sharpening or anything. Now, my first shots I purposely centered a sparrow with a background of sunlit twigs because the Sigma almost always showed CA on the twigs. Canon 600mm.....practically zero! The last shot I did to see how well it could blur the out of focus background. And it does very well. That is a very busy background of house, trees, junk, etc. I should have taken a shot of the background to show it I guess. So here are the first shots, keep in mind I wasn't after subect matter or comp. its like zero degrees outside! LOL
600mm, f/6.3 1/1250 ISO 400
600mm, f/6.3 1/1250 ISO 400
600mm, f/5.6 1/1250 ISO 400
First, a little about why I bought this expensive piece of kit. I love wildlife photography, plain and simple. I know that the chances of making a great living at it may be slimmer than say a wedding/portrait photog, but I do it for the fun and enjoyment.
So, for the last year I shot with a Sigma 50-500. Now, that lens was always racked out to 500mm, and the max aperture was 6.3. Well, the lens was more than enough for the first few months, but as I improved, the lens began holding me back in the early morning/ late evening available light hours. Now, the Sigma is fairly sharp and for the price (I paid $1050 new) is a heck of a lens. However, the slight lack of sharpness and the CA slarted erking me. So somehow I convinced the wife I needed the Canon 600mm and all the apropriate accessories.
Back to the maiden voyage...crap weather, but a couple of sparrows in the neighbors yard. These are JPEG straight out of camera images. Only resized, no sharpening or anything. Now, my first shots I purposely centered a sparrow with a background of sunlit twigs because the Sigma almost always showed CA on the twigs. Canon 600mm.....practically zero! The last shot I did to see how well it could blur the out of focus background. And it does very well. That is a very busy background of house, trees, junk, etc. I should have taken a shot of the background to show it I guess. So here are the first shots, keep in mind I wasn't after subect matter or comp. its like zero degrees outside! LOL
600mm, f/6.3 1/1250 ISO 400
600mm, f/6.3 1/1250 ISO 400
600mm, f/5.6 1/1250 ISO 400
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