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I had the pleasure today of having Fozzie to lunch and a little talking about you know what.
Fozzie has the Sigma 150mm f/2.8 macro and I have the Sigma 2x teleconverter. The shot below is of Birddog’s Gitzo G0127 tripod with the BH25 head, kindly loaned to Fozzie for the afternoon. The point of this photo: Fozzie’s 150mm with my 2x teleconverter shot handheld - 1/50th sec @ f/8 iso 200 - I am impressed - what do others think 
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Chris
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Impressive Chris. I'm assuming this was at 150mm
Hand held and no VR - you must have good hand holding technique- shows the lens works beautifully with the TC too Peter
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OK everyone - I now have to apologise (too much red wine). The pic of the Gitzo was taken with the prime 150mm macro (and not with 2x teleconverter).
This photo was taken as a test with the 150+2x = 300mm The downsizing has taken away some of the sharpness I can see on my monitor.  Chris
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Chris - still a good shot - although the boke is a little harsh IMO. Hope the red was good.
Peter
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Yes... to be totally honest that is the one thing that puts me off the sigma is that if there are highlights in the boke they come out rather harsh!
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The red was excellent, as was the company.
I find that boke is very much a personal taste scenario. I will, hopefully tomorrow, take exactly the same shot with the 70-200 and converter and see if there is a difference. It will be interesting. I believe the theory is that you get better boke from a lens with an odd number of aperture blades - hopefully someone can inform me if this is true or not. Chris
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