Sony I sent him out to get milk....

HeatherTheVet

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... he came back with the Sigma 100-300mm lens. I've ordered an adapter ring (non AF) so I guess we'll have to wait and see. It's quite tidy for a long lens.

Anybody got one/had one / know what I should do with it?
 
... Anybody got one/had one / know what I should do with it?

Shoot!

Gary

PS- Shoot everything, shoot flowers, shoot wildlife, shoot ponies, shoot landscapes, shoot everything. The best thing about a super-duper lens, is to use the super-duperness of the lens for stuff you wouldn't normally think to shoot with your super-duper lens.

G
 
My husband is sending me out for a tiller attachment for his weed whip, you think.. if I come back with a lens he will be okay with that? I have a feeling if I send him for his own stuff he'd come back with his own stuff. Quandary.
 
My husband is sending me out for a tiller attachment for his weed whip, you think.. if I come back with a lens he will be okay with that? I have a feeling if I send him for his own stuff he'd come back with his own stuff. Quandary.

come in and look confused "so whyd you want this lens..??? i kinda figured you woulda wanted a tiller attachment... werent you gonna do yard work?"and set it down and walk away from it

itll confuse him... lol
 
Ah, much goodness. So people like this one then?

As always it will be strapped to the NEX at a jaunty angle, ready to fall forwards in a battle of willpower versus gravity.

If it is a happy little lens it will replace a couple of massive clunky wobbly ones. Good fun but impractical or willing to change focal length at the breath of a midgie on the barrel.

I'm in the middle of some financial jiggery pokery, so I am hoping hoping praying hoping that all the current crazy working will slow and allow my head a bit of a break to do other stuff again. Photos and music mainly.
 
Heather, it's never clear to me what language you speak, but just keep it going. Your own version of the Queen's English mixed with your particular jazzy take on hipster riffing always keeps me tuned in.

p.s. - will we ever get another video clip of your music skills?
 
Heather, it's never clear to me what language you speak, but just keep it going. Your own version of the Queen's English mixed with your particular jazzy take on hipster riffing always keeps me tuned in.

p.s. - will we ever get another video clip of your music skills?

+1

Luke, I think she's speaking Dog, loosely translated to English via Gaelic.
 
Have you wibble wobbled any pictures with it yet? Or is your nex quivering in the corner thinking "heck Heather, that beastie is no getting anywhere near me"? Mind it might be a good midgie deterrent!
 
Well Luke, I speak a mix of Scots and English with lots of colloquial bits thrown in (most Scots do), and add phrases from travelling. I also make bits up as I go along. I think my favourite addition is the internationally famous "same same but different" (Hinglish for similar) although in our house since Marrakech the way to indicate tongue in cheek quality and one upmanship to anything is to slap the word Berber in front of it.

"I love you, baby"
"Yeah, but I REALLY love you"
"But I BERBER love you"

Anyway - the adapter came for the midgie repellant 100-300 and the strapping on ceremony commenced. The lens is about 3 times the size of the camera which leads to some interesting dynamics. I've only done hand held or chair propped in the kitchen type shots, one of which I might keep actually, to see what it does and how to handle it. I think the answer to the handling is tripod/stationary object, but it's quick and smooth and easy to use, focus peaking highly effective on the NEX of course. The DOF is pretty shallow on these shots at min focus distance. I'm very pleased, especially as it was £18 in the charity shop. Even better as himself paid for it.

I can't show you the first shot as it's the husbandly face, but I am thinking of trying it on a night shoot tonight if I can organise myself adequately - There's more I want to do underneath the previously featured motorway but the next few shots I think have to be from the other side of a busyish road. Long lens will be perfect. I'll also have the fast50 as it worked best before and I thought I'd try the 16mm native from v close up.

New toys are great aren't they?
 
So here's what did with it:
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[/url] Roe Deer, Isle of Whithorn by heather_t_vet, on Flickr[/IMG]

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[/url] Roaming in the gloaming by heather_t_vet, on Flickr[/IMG]

Also - hullo everyone. Missed you a bit.
 
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