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gaeger
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 Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:29 am Post subject: Soligor T4 400mm, 75-260mm lenses, now with birds |
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gaeger wrote:
I recently bought a few Soligor T4 lenses, more out of curiosity, but I've found that they're pretty fun. Today, I was at Seattle's Gasworks Park with a 400mm f6.3 and a 75-260mm f4.5 and shot with a Nikon D300 and a Minolta X700. I haven't had the film developed, but here are results on the digital body. First two are the 400mm, second two are the zoom.
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Attila
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| Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:38 am Post subject: |
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Attila wrote:
Nice images! Way better what I ever expected from these lenses. Thank you for sharing them!
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gaeger
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gaeger wrote:
Thanks, Attila. I also was quite surprised, given how cheap they are. Here's the 400mm with a Nikkor TC200 converter on the D300 tonight. The moon is so beautiful this evening.
And addition of a couple of snow geese images from today:
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Attila
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Attila wrote:
Excellent too! Well spent money 
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Big Dawg
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Big Dawg wrote:
The Vivitar and Soligor T4's are always under rated. If you ask no more than they will give then you'll find they are quite good and a lot of fun to use. I'm selling off all of mine right now but not because they are not useful but rather because I need the money for another project. Photos are very well done. Congratulations.
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gaeger
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gaeger wrote:
Went out to the Skagit Valley today and had another extraordinary experience. I saw a field of snow geese some distance from the road and sat down on a stone wall to photograph them with the 400mm. Well, they gradually began eating their way toward me and then more and more arrived until I was nearly surrounded! I only wish that I had brought my 300mm Nikkor with me from the car. After shooting for a while, I carefully got up and walked back across the road and made my way over to the daffodil fields. No tulips yet!
More images at this flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaeger2/sets/72157626252537301/
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Olivier
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| Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:22 am Post subject: |
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Olivier wrote:
WOW !
Lucky you Gaeger for living such a nice experience. 
The girl's picture is wonderful !
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newton
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This picture is FANTASTIC! A little noisy but super!!! I like it.  |
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woodrim
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woodrim wrote:
The lens does seem to perform better than I might have expected, but the real treat is the images, not to mention your superb focusing skills. The image filled with birds in flight and the girl in the yellow flower fied are spectacular. Just fix the level of the horizon on the field of flowers and fantastic!!!
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