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Wildlife through russian mirror lenses MTO-500 and MTO-1000
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Few wildlife pictures shot with two mirror lenses MTO-500 and MTO-1000.
I love this beautiful donut bokeh!!


MTO-500A 550/8.5


MTO-11CA 1000/10


MTO-500A 550/8.5


MTO-11CA 1000/10


MTO-500A 550/8.5


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Wow!

Nice stuff! Really beautiful images from mirror-teles.


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Wow, pleasant surprise! I'm usually not a friend of doughnut bokeh, but in this shot I think the shaped highlights really add to the photo.

shauttra wrote:
MTO-11CA 1000/10


Last edited by Esox lucius on Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:36 pm; edited 1 time in total


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Beautiful pictures, unfortunately ugly bokeh kill them, except horse picture.

I love Russian mirrors but only that way if subject fill full frame.


Last edited by Attila on Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:42 pm; edited 1 time in total


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I love that squirrel, and the one after it. I do like the donunt bokeh, it's not the usual, and can be used well, like you do.


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Gotta love those Russian mirrors. They are such good lenses.

Maybe I'm weird, but I don't mind the donut bokeh a bit. I think they often set a photo off from an otherwise ordinary crowd.


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Very good and the blur is nice. I love the fox most, make me think about one of those Russian mirror lenses on a full frame Cool


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Fine wildlife shots. I too find the donuts a bit distracting


patrickh


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the crazy bokeh of mirror lense Shocked
very nice shot, nice color Very Happy
thanks!


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Nice work. Are you using a focusing screen to focus these lenses?


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I am using standart Canon 40D focusing screen but in bad light it`s very difficult to focus..


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S i love image 1; and the bohek is insane! love it, really stands out if one knows how to use it. very nice.


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I love your pictures !

I am very surprised with the squirrel ! HOW did you succeed doing such a photograph with a Mirror Smile

did you use a flash ?


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I'm curious of the range of those 500mm lenses... can you tell at how many meters were you from the fox picture ? thanx.


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Nelson - In these pictures i did not use flash, i used it only one time for birds photography from very close distance 5-7 meters. It works great!
Focusin for this lens is very smooth, and that allows shoot moving objects (using monopod)

Hexi - I was hiding on the field, and fox were 30-40 meters from me.
On crop cameras focus distance for 500mm lens is 800mm.


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I am impressed by the sharpness of these.. The weird bokeh is a little much in some of the shots but overall I like them.

Nice shootin.


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totally off topic, who the heck are you duckman??!! i thought i was the only person in the world who loved that show!!! hold on, ive got some teddy bears in the blender and i think theyre done....