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300 f/2.8 Macros

Postby Slider on Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:34 pm

Finch and I ran our Brissie Wildlife workshop last weekend and I loaned my Sigma 180 Macro to one of the participants. Good opportunity to experiment so out with the Nikkor 300 f/2.8 and Triplus extension tubes :D

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Postby adamj123 on Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:52 pm

beautiful shots, love the colors in the first image
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Postby sirhc55 on Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:43 pm

Wow :)
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Postby radar on Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:46 pm

Probably the most expensive macro I've seen :D

Great photos, especially the frog,

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Postby ozimax on Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:06 pm

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Postby benhoskin on Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:11 pm

Nice Colours on that 1st image .. amazing
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Postby Finch on Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:52 pm

Hi Mark

Great shots using a non-conventional "macro" lens but they sure do work.

It was a fun day, participant's learned heaps and some great photos were achieved by all.

Excellent stuff!

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Postby Gordon on Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:02 pm

Great results with your unconventional macro lens Slider. I've used my 180mm f/2.8 with extension rings before, and been pleased with the result. Sure, the DOF isn't very large, but the greater working distance is very useful for subjects such as butterflies, which can sometimes be hard to get close enough to, without causing them to fly off, with conventional macro lenses of relatively short FL.

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Postby Slider on Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:48 pm

Thanks for the comments folks :D

Gordon wrote:Great results with your unconventional macro lens Slider. I've used my 180mm f/2.8 with extension rings before, and been pleased with the result. Sure, the DOF isn't very large, but the greater working distance is very useful for subjects such as butterflies, which can sometimes be hard to get close enough to, without causing them to fly off, with conventional macro lenses of relatively short FL.

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Gordon, I normally use a Sigma 180 f/3.5 Macro which I love due to the greater working distance but this was ridiculous.

Here is a shot of the workshop group and I was behind them to get the frog and lizard with the 300 f/2.8 :D

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Postby christiand on Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:54 pm

:lol: :lol: :lol:

don't you like Slider's photo :lol:
everyone is so very serious about taking THEE photo of the frog or lizard. (voyeurs should I add ? :shock: )
I think that photo is very illustrating and funny.

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Postby Slider on Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:59 pm

:lol: :lol: :lol: They had a ball :D
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Postby Big Red on Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:52 pm

i've use the 300 on dragonflies before with pretty good results :lol:
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Postby poompy on Fri Aug 17, 2007 10:12 am

love the colours in #1, nice photo.

what sort of magnification would you get with this lens and all the ext tubes you used?
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