On Sep 13, 2012, at 15:56 , John Sessoms wrote: > From: Larry Colen > >> About two weeks after I got my K20, camera and bigma both fell off my >> monopod onto asphalt. the bigma didn't seem too much the worse for >> wear. It's a little stiff for adjusting focal length, but that's not >> always a bad thing. It tends to stay where I put it. When I was >> looking at my Jupiter+moon photos, I noticed that the bigma photos >> weren't as sharp as the tamron adaptall plus two teleconverters. I >> then remembered that for the past couple of years I've always been a >> bit disappointed in the sharpness of the photos I got with it. The >> bigma is supposed to be a fairly sharp lens, but how sharp is >> "fairly"? I just did some quick and dirty test shots with it, at a >> variety of ISOs and shutter speeds. Most of these are 1:1 crops, >> with a couple showing the full frame. >> >> Is my lens tweaked, or am I just looking too closely at the pixels? >> >> >> http://www.fluidr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157631529224954/ > > > I've never dropped mine, and I think images at 500 are pretty soft.
I agree with John. Show us one before you dropped it using 500mm and similar aperture and subject. The tin hard to tell. It all looks soft. The masonry is soft at the top of the images, are they crops? Those are the closest to the "brick wall" you have. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
