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15 Feb 2010

February 15th, 2:53am 0 comments

Coffee, Nikon and Voigtländer

A great combination :-)

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Posted 26 days ago

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30 Jun 2009

June 30th, 7:26am 0 comments

Araneus Diadematus (European garden spider) in web

Shot with D700 and Sigma 150mm F2.8 APO Macro HSM
Post-processed (cropping, resizing, vignetting) with Bibble Pro 5

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Posted 8 months ago

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10 Jun 2009

June 10th, 5:19am 0 comments

Two more Cat&Mouse

I guess the mouse was a goner.. so now the cat's playing with the corpse.. weeee!

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Two_more_CatMouse_photog_cat_m.zip (467 KB)

This time better focus :-)

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Posted 9 months ago

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10 Jun 2009

June 10th, 4:36am 0 comments

Looks like our cats can't stop hunting and playing.. Sadistic little bastards, playing with an "innocent" mouse... Funnily enough, with all that playing, the mouse got away.
See the photo with the cat "hands-up" .. the mouse is actually thrown over her, you can see the mouse behind her belly.. That was the last she saw of the mouse :D

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Cat_Mouse_play_cats_prey_mice_.zip (743 KB)

Sorry for the out of focus shots.. I need to practice the tracking with the D700 (and the sigma 150mm isn't very fast either)

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Posted 9 months ago

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8 Jun 2009

June 8th, 7:37am 2 comments

First Sigma 150mm F2.8 shots

Well, testing the Sigma 150mm F2.8 AF IF EX DG APO MACRO HSM lens. Sigma marketing must have a poll on who can invent the longest acronym list!

Anyway, here are some samples. I already noticed a few things:

- Macro photography is HARD .. but since the lens will be used mainly for portrait stuff, I can get around that ;-)

- AF is, even though it is an HSM lens, quite slow. AF tracking is hit or miss, even if you use the focus limiter.

- The damn thing is heavy. My D700+MB10+8xAA is already pretty weighty.. adding the 150mm doesn't make it easier. The whole kit weighs 2.6kg ..

- Sharpness and field flatness is excellent.. I wonder if I could use this lens for piggyback astrophotography.

Any vignetting you see is added in post-processing :-)

Post processed with Bibble 5 PV2.1 available from Bibble Labs

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First_Sigma_150mm_F2.8_shots_s.zip (204 KB)

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Posted 9 months ago

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6 Jun 2009

June 6th, 3:16am 0 comments

Fashion360 - 48 Nikon D700s behind the scenes movie

via Nikon Rumors

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29 May 2009

May 29th, 8:13am 1 comment

Nikon D700+24-120mm+Raf+Soccer

Doing some AF tracking testing with the D700 and 24-120mm lens.
It's not bad, to be honest. D700 fitted with MB-D10 grip and 8 GP ReCyko cells, so that the "power" AF and FPS is available. The kids will have a soccer tournament in a few weeks, gonna try shooting some action shots.