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Colin Green

Colin Green

Member Since 02 Oct 2013
Offline Last Active Oct 12 2013 09:07 AM
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In Topic: A Guide to Buying Your Next Camera Lens

12 October 2013 - 09:10 AM

 

 
 

I have the Sigma 50-500 and it's a great lens. You can get some great candid shots with it.

I've also ordered a Sigma 150mm lens and a Kenko 2 x converter (I like Prime lenses too) to test out.

 

I tried to add a photo I took with the Sigma so you can see what it's like but I don't know if it worked.


 

 

Ok, I got it, this first photo is a photo of a Dingo I took with the Sigma 50-500

 

This 2nd one is an action shot taken with the same lens.

 

 

The Sigma 50-500 is a very good lens and works well with the Sigma 1.4x converter too. Used it for many years for wildlife photography, can be used hand held. Sold it and bought the Nikon 200-400.  Would not hesitiate to recommend the Sigma to anyone. I look back on it with great fondness. (Would recommend the 200-400 as well of course - it's a cracker but expensive).


In Topic: A Couple of Birds

09 October 2013 - 01:42 PM

Thanks Adam, it was part of a desktop slideshow project on birds of Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland.


In Topic: A Couple of Birds

09 October 2013 - 01:19 PM

Thanks DanWeso.  That's a male stonechat and was taken on a coastal golf course in Northumberland. The female is quite bonnie too. The other is a Northern Dipper and was taken in Ludlow, Shropshire, below the castle. I believe you have this bird in the mountainous regions of the USA. It can actually walk under the water to find prey by clinging to the rocks with it's claws It also has a whitish membrane it can place over it's eyes as protection. This one was gathering moss for it's nest.


In Topic: The D7000 is the best camera I have owned

06 October 2013 - 01:33 PM

I have the D7000 and the D7100. The former is a great camera but the D7100 is better. Wouldn't you expect it to be if it superceeds the other?  Nikon knows what it is doing or it would soon be out of business,

    What the removal of the low pass filter has given me is incredible detail on images.  Beware of salestalk - it depends on what models the salesman is trying to shift and what he has in stock.

   The technology you get for your money is absolutely amazing and the extra pixels are of immense value to me in wildlife photography.

   Lenses are important, probably more so than a body but you also need the most up to date platform you can afford for them to work on.

   Never having handled a D600 I cannot comment on this body but I can vouch for the D7000 and D7100 and if money or a lens upgrade are not a priority then I would, without hesitation, go for a D7100


In Topic: what do you like taking pictures of >

05 October 2013 - 01:24 PM

Natural history.  The beauty of nature never fails to astound me whether it's a magnificent landscape or a tiny insect. To focus into a flower to photograph say a hoverfly is like entering another world, The colours are so vivid.