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| Posted: Thu Aug 21st, 2025 15:30 |
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Bob
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Any feedback on this lens? I tried one today - it is really light, and looks pretty sharp to me. It also has a reasonably short minmum focusing distance.I am teetering on the brink..........
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| Posted: Thu Aug 21st, 2025 15:35 |
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jk
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Take a look at Jeff (Blackfox) images in the Birds 2025 thread. Those were taken with a Tamron 150-600 I think. I have not seen any images from that Nikon 500mm f5.6
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22nd, 2025 14:06 |
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Eric
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I had the 500mm PF lens. It was a brilliant, lightweight, fast focusing lens with some clever focus recall functions…sharp too. My only critique was that the fractal nature of the lens did seem to render bokeh harshly. It had a digital blockiness that when mixed with a bit of noise from high iso use could look ……well fractally! Sort of jaggy and more noticeable. Hard to explain except it was different and harsher/more obvious that straight noise. (Look at the darker areas of the Bullfinch photo below) Ideal lens for sport and wildlife. I didn’t mind the lack of zoom because I rarely got close enough to the subject to over fill the frame and (coupled with the D850) I could always crop with out loss of detail.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22nd, 2025 14:21 |
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Eric
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jk wrote:Take a look at Jeff (Blackfox) images in the Birds 2025 thread. Those were taken with a Tamron 150-600 I think. Most of my early bird photos were with that lens….  Click here to comment on this image.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22nd, 2025 21:40 |
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Bob
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jk wrote:Take a look at Jeff (Blackfox) images in the Birds 2025 thread. Those were taken with a Tamron 150-600 I think. Couldn't find the Birds 2025 thread 
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22nd, 2025 21:53 |
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Bob
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Eric wrote:Most of my early bird photos were with that lens…. Great picture. Do you remember how close you were to the subject? I had a look through one on my camera this week, and I liked the feel of it. i went outside the shop and had a play. It focuses quite closely which would be good for my garden etc, but I'm not sure about the maximum distance at which I could get a decent image ; there weren't any suitable distance shots ie birds to enable me to make a meaningful judgement. I think it's a superb lens - I haven't boned up on the bokeh stuff yet so I wouldn't have known what I was looking at.Am I going to get a significant increase in image size/quality if I go for the Tamron 150-600?
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22nd, 2025 23:06 |
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chrisbet
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Bob wrote:Couldn't find the Birds 2025 thread Here - https://nikondslr.uk/view_topic.php?id=2014
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| Posted: Sat Aug 23rd, 2025 10:02 |
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Bob
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Eric wrote:Most of my early bird photos were with that lens…. Was that taken with the Nikon 500 or the Tamron 150-600?
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| Posted: Sat Aug 23rd, 2025 14:18 |
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Eric
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Bob wrote:Great picture. Do you remember how close you were to the subject? I had a look through one on my camera this week, and I liked the feel of it. i went outside the shop and had a play. It focuses quite closely which would be good for my garden etc, but I'm not sure about the maximum distance at which I could get a decent image ; there weren't any suitable distance shots ie birds to enable me to make a meaningful judgement. I think it's a superb lens - I haven't boned up on the bokeh stuff yet so I wouldn't have known what I was looking at.Am I going to get a significant increase in image size/quality if I go for the Tamron 150-600? Don’t get too hung up on the bokeh comment….many people didn’t seem as anal I was about it. lol Don’t get me wrong, I kept the lens for ages and it was only me deciding to try out Sony equipment that caused me to px the d850 and 500pf. If I am being honest ….if I had a magic wand I would try to go back to that combination.  Regarding distance I would say 50feet away. without going back to the original NEF I don’t know if it’s been cropped ….so it makes size comparison difficult. The other thing about the 500pf is the 1.4x teleconverter worked flawlessly with it only losing 1/2stop of light and gave c.750mm. I always believed that using teleconverter should be reserved for fixed prime lenses (like the 500pf) and not zooms, but the Sony 200-600 has been a revelation when coupled with its 1.4x converter. So maybe the Tamron would be ok? I believe Jeff (black fox) uses that lens but on a DX body(?)….so his 600mm is probably 840mm equivalent. Send him a PM and get his opinion….he is a very experience wildlife photographer. I cannot believe he would be using an inferior lens!!! For me the decision would be more about cost, weight, features* and need for zoom. *eg The 500pf has a lock-on feature that enables you to “store” a focus point, while enabling you to then carry on shooting other subjects until you want to return to the stored position/focus point.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 23rd, 2025 15:02 |
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Bob
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Eric wrote:Don’t get too hung up on the bokeh comment….many people didn’t seem as anal I was about it. lol Thanks - this digital stuff has so many options eg Chris's focus stacking.I will contact Jeff.
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