Nice shot, I like it. I should be picking up my slides this weekend to see if I got anything. It was a bit dark to be using trap focus for macros, but you never know...
Thanks - that was taken with the 20-35 f4. Can be a wickedly sharp lens at times.
I got back my slides today - here is another shot from the nature center (one of two slides I took before switching to faster film):
http://www.markcassino.com/temp/mayapple.jpg
And while we're at it, a couple of birds from yesterday and today:
http://www.markcassino.com/temp/green_heron.jpg http://www.markcassino.com/temp/warbler01.jpg http://www.markcassino.com/temp/warbler02.jpg
The warblers are a challenge and I can;t seem to get close enough - though a pair of tussling males actually zoomed between me and the camera this morning (could feel the air off their wings!)
I have a 70-210 f4 A series I'll loan you the next time we get together. I just measured it and it's 26 oz. and 7" long. One touch. I don't use it much since I have the behemoth 2.8 version, but it really is a nice lens. At one end (can't recall which) I thought it dark in the corners wide open, but I may be wrong on that. I think Caveman's lens site has some samples.
I too have a 2.8 behemoth (though a non-SMC behemoth) - I'd probably stick with that to justify having it, but the f4 range seems appealing.
BTW, why did you opt for the Canon, I thought you were waiting for the new Minolta 5400? Sorry for the thread drift.
A few things came together. I got fed up with the time and effort it took to scan color negs. I'd put and hour or more into color adjustments per image. Greens and magenta's both would be totally wacked out. The Kodak HDC scans were the pits. That not only led me to want to move ahead now, but als made me wary of Minolta scanners in general. I''m also doing a lot of scanning and ould just as soon do it at a reasonably archival level.
First impressions of the Canon are good - the image I posted had one tweak in the curves tool and was done. the same image scanned on my Minolta was unworkable. The Canon does not seem to have problems with DOF and mounted slides, that some 4000dpi film scanners allegedly have. The software is OK, though I'd prefer ICE over FARE. My big worry was scan speed times so I hooked it up via a SCSI card - the physical scanning takes only a minute or so, the processing takes about 5 but a faster computer would speed that up (my 950 mhz Athlon is getting kinda old.)
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