Shooting birds again.
The last bird photos I posted, 6/11/11, were taken with the Sony 70-400mm, @400mm, with no TC, and they came out pretty good, with plenty of feather detail for being so far away. Yesterday, just for kicks, I tried a Sony 1.4x tele-converter with the same lens (equiv. to 560mm) to see if the results …
Why I use a “cheap” lens.
Quite a few people have written to me and asked; “why do you recommend and use the Sigma 10-20mm F/4-5.6 lens; it’s cheap, and not the sharpest lens, even according to your own reviews.” The answer is always the same; it does the job. In all the years I’ve used this …
Check out the first flash review, covering the inexpensive Vivitar DF-293-SON. This little flash has five adjustable power levels, four zoom settings, along with a wide angle diffuser and bounce card! It works very well in manual or auto mode with Sony Cameras, the only drawback is you have to remember to manually adjust …
Used items you may, or may not be interested in.
I trolled the used dept of B&H photo today, and found a few items some people may be interested in. The used Sony hotshoe adapter ($65) keeps very rare but possible voltage spikes from wrecking your camera. Non-Sony flashes and radio triggers may introduce slightly more voltage via the …
News and reviews coming in July.
I’m checking out a bunch of neat photo items right now, such as the super popular Tamron 70-300mm F/4-5.6 USD, (which will include a quick Sony 70-300mm G comp), Rokinon 35mm F/1.4, three flash reviews and some accessories reviews.
Due to interest and demand from readers, I’m going to start reviewing …
Super-wide zoom comparison page is up.
This page compares the Sigma 10-20mm F/4-5.6, Sigma 10-20mm F/3.5, and the Tokina 11-16mm F/2.8 using the same cropped images from the reviews, however, they’ve been put side-by-side to make the differences show up more.
There are a few surprises, so if you want to kill five minutes, check it …
Weird light at the snack hut.
This snack food hut is located at Glacier point, Yosemite National Park, CA. The “hut” is really your standard convenience store that sells junk food and souvenirs etc, to people like me. I bought some dumb stuff like a baseball cap and a 2000 calorie giant donut (Cinnabon-ish).
I took this shot last …
Tokina 11-16mm F/2.8 AT-X pro review.
This will be the last of the APS-C super wide zoom reviews for a long time; I’ve done all that are worthy of doing unless Sony comes out with something new, like the rumored Sony 10-24mm, hopefully that won’t be a rebadged Tamron!
The Tokina 11-16mm F/2.8 is a spectacular performer in …