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Post by Stan on Apr 25, 2013 20:06:11 GMT -5
Just arrived today. I suspect it's going to take me awhile to get any good at it, but it'll be fun AND I just like the look of it!   The image was shot this afternoon of a house down the street. 1/1250 f8 (of course), ISO 800 |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2013 20:15:20 GMT -5
Can't see it. Just a movie of a puppy looking at the camera.
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Post by Stan on Apr 25, 2013 21:14:14 GMT -5
Fixed now.
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Post by truls on Apr 27, 2013 9:41:33 GMT -5
The Tokina looks like a good lens, the photo turned out sharp. 500mm becomes a 800mm on DX sensor? Really long tele.
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Post by Stan on Jun 14, 2013 0:08:11 GMT -5
After a couple of months, I still really like the Tokina a lot. The extra length (about 750mm) on my D300 is nice, but ROUGH to handhold! I do need to find somebody locally who can get rid of the fungus for me though!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2013 17:01:42 GMT -5
Actually it doesn't create a longer focal length on a DX. It just crops the frame to what the longer focal length would cover.
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Post by Dan Vincent on May 26, 2014 4:42:05 GMT -5
Stan, That mirror lens looks great on the Nikon.
I have a Soligar 600mm that I want to adapt to my Nikon D-90.
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Post by Stan on Jun 16, 2014 1:17:55 GMT -5
Thanks Dan. It's really a great fit and balances well on the camera, especially when the MB-D10 is attached. Unfortunately, my handheld technique leaves something to be desired! It's going to take quite a bit of work to get even decent at it.
Is your Soligor 600mm a T-Mount? I've seen the Soligor 500mm mirror lens before, but not a 600mm one. I'd love to have one of the Vivitar or Perkin/Elmer 600s though!
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Post by Dan Vincent on Jul 3, 2014 6:12:48 GMT -5
Sorry Stan, It's not a Soligar, it's a Sigma. Old age memory failure. I just have to find out what converter to use for my Nikon D-90.
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Post by Stan on Jul 4, 2014 11:03:00 GMT -5
Sorry Stan, It's not a Soligar, it's a Sigma. Old age memory failure. I just have to find out what converter to use for my Nikon D-90. I've read quite a lot of good things about the Sigma 600mm. From what I can tell, it, the Tamron Adaptall 500mm and Vivitar Series 1 600/800mm rank above my Tokina. I've used a Promaster Spectrum 7, 1.7x multiplier with a Tokina 80-400mm with my D300 with decent results. However, I haven't tried it on the mirror yet. Maybe, I'll give it a try this weekend. I believe that the Promaster is a rebranded Kenko piece which is part of the Hoya/Tokina/Kenko consortium. So, like the other items from them; most likely, Hoya makes the glass, Tokina does the engineering and it's sold as a Kenko branded product (or contracted out). There appears to be very few actual makers of these converters out there. How long have you had the Sigma? Do you like it's IQ? Stan |
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Post by Dan Vincent on Jul 4, 2014 21:09:18 GMT -5
I'm not quite sure of when I got the Sigma 600 lens. Maybe mid-90's or even earlier.
I took some pictures of birds with it on my Minolta XE-7 with a T-mount and they came out pretty nice but my tripod was rather flimsy so it wasn't a true test.
It would be interesting to try it on a DSLR because I could instantly review the results and adjust as needed.
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Post by Stan on Jul 5, 2014 1:13:54 GMT -5
That's something that I haven't done either. I used it one a monopod once, but it didn't help much. I really need to put mine on a tripod as well. Especially if I'm going to use the 1.7x teleconverter on it.
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Post by daveh on Jul 5, 2014 3:32:07 GMT -5
I have a Centon 500 f8. It's quite small and light for its focal length. However even in decent light using a tripod the image is soft and lacks real definition. I also have a Vivitar 400mm f5.6 preset lens. The Vivitar gives better results, but weighs close to 1.8 kilos, 4lb. The Centon is about a quarter of that and significantly shorter too. Neither comes close to the quality I can achieve with the Canon 70-200 f4L with 1.4 multiplier attached (and of course even better quality would be achieved with a prime lens of 400mm from the L series). The result is that the Centon and the Vivitar only come out when I want to prove to myself how much better the Canon lens is. On the other hand, the Vivitar cost £15 and the the Centon £25 as against about £600 for the Canon.
I believe that the Centon isn't the best make of mirror lens. It would be interesting to run a comparison between all the different makes, and against other lenses. Truls would seem to be the right person to do it: he seems in great lens testing mode at the moment.
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