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Postby birddog114 on Thu Feb 24, 2005 4:18 pm

Never heard from him again as soon as he got the 80-400VR,
perhaps he ducks out somewhere to capture "duck" :lol:
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Postby Glen on Thu Feb 24, 2005 4:21 pm

He was on last night
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Postby PlatinumWeaver on Thu Feb 24, 2005 5:26 pm

You got the money right???!?!?!?!?!??

Been a bit hectic today.. Yeah the lens came in yestrday at about 2:30pm.. fantastic service again, but I haven't been at my system and haven't had time to play with the lens much yet..

scared myself stupid with it.. by default it was set to manual exposure.. should've read the manual first.. spent 10 minutes wondering why the autofocus options were greyed out..

*grins*

Thanks again Birddog... I was going to sit down tonight and write out a post with pictures.. but yeah.. ta :)
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Postby Glen on Thu Feb 24, 2005 5:28 pm

Post the duck shots, Dean :wink:
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Postby birddog114 on Thu Feb 24, 2005 5:31 pm

PlatinumWeaver wrote:You got the money right???!?!?!?!?!??

Been a bit hectic today.. Yeah the lens came in yestrday at about 2:30pm.. fantastic service again, but I haven't been at my system and haven't had time to play with the lens much yet..

scared myself stupid with it.. by default it was set to manual exposure.. should've read the manual first.. spent 10 minutes wondering why the autofocus options were greyed out..

*grins*

Thanks again Birddog... I was going to sit down tonight and write out a post with pictures.. but yeah.. ta :)


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Hope you'll enjoy with it! It's brand new and never I opened it before so please pay few more minutes at the manual, no more duck, promised please! I had all weeks with all type of dishes with duck as peking duck, steamed duck, salty duck, deep fried duck, duck congee, duck casserole, duck stir fried, :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Postby PlatinumWeaver on Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:07 pm

Two quick shots.. the magpie was manually focused because it was before I realised what that switch was!

The cat is just... the cat :)
1/60 I think for him.. I love VR.. 1/60 at 400mm with my hands would just not work otherwise :)

http://www.platinumweaver.net/files/DSC_2748_small.jpg
http://www.platinumweaver.net/files/DSC_2743_small.jpg

The magpie is unsharpened out of the camera, I feel the shot is a lot sharper than it would've been with my Tamron.. I guess there's a quality difference beyond the inclusion of VR that seperates the $250 from the $1700

Magpie full shot ( 4.x MB )
http://www.platinumweaver.net/files/DSC_2743.jpg

EXIF should exist in all shots :)

Better shots later :)
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Postby Glen on Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:10 pm

Dean, cat looks ok but couldn't access either of the other two. On your site tried gallery and got an error. Good luck fixing it :(
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Postby stubbsy on Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:14 pm

Dean

I accessed pics just before Glen posted and they were fine for me.

The magpie is way impressive (just looked at the large version) especially given manual focus. Eyes are in focus and you can see every detail in the feathers. Good example of what can be done with the 80-400
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Postby Glen on Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:18 pm

Working now Dean, must have been that Stubbsy taking all the bandwidth :wink: Great shot of the magpie, really shows what can be done with that lens (and MF)
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Postby PlatinumWeaver on Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:28 pm

Actually I typoed the address of the magpie.. then quickly changed it and hoped no-one saw.. :oops:

Thanks for the praise - As I said before, neither of them were carefully considered shots.. just me making sure I took photos of -something- on the day I got it :)
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Postby birddog114 on Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:32 pm

Dean,
I'm sure you'll made it soon, like the magpie! happily posing for you :wink:
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Postby sirhc55 on Thu Feb 24, 2005 7:23 pm

Nice shots Dean straight out of the box - the Magpie looks a mean bugger :roll:
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Postby Greg B on Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:06 pm

Great stuff Dean, you must be very pleased with the lens and these first shots.

Ever since that day at Andrew's, the 80-400 VR has been on the list. :)
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Postby PlatinumWeaver on Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:18 pm

Ta guys..


Greg; The lens was on my list before that day, that day was just the final nail in the coffin..

Cannot wait till werribee now.. I'm glad I waited this long otherwise the wait would've killed me..
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Postby Greg B on Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:23 pm

I hear what you are saying Dean. But since then, it has been on my list too :)

Have a great day on Sunday
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Postby PlatinumWeaver on Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:12 pm

It's my thread so i'll disrail it if I want to... :)

You're not coming with us?
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Postby Onyx on Fri Feb 25, 2005 1:46 am

Great magpie shots PW - cherish your lens, and ebay off your Tamron. ;)
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Postby PlatinumWeaver on Fri Feb 25, 2005 9:31 am

seriously considering ebaying my tamron.. could get maybe $100 US on ebay judging by the current bids.. which would almost pay for a *coughCANONcough* 500D... which would make the lens a better macro-substitute than the Tamron...

or I could just put the money into something else, like the financial struggles one enters into once they join the VR club....
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Postby mudder on Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:45 pm

G'day,
Another member for the VR club :-)

This'll be interesting on Sunday, with all them zooms swingin' round we'll need the VR due to the centrifugal force of the zooms moving the ute ;-)

Can't wait, weather predicted is good, bewdy! Catch ya Sunday Dean...

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