Spotted the little thing running about the garden so busted out the sigma 150-500 and wound it round to 500mm.. seem quite soft focus at 100% but zoomed out they look ok. Heavy lens and freezing cold meant i wasnt exactly holding it steady.
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Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom.. yeah we threw some bread out for the birds..
Full set here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12512629@N07/sets/72157625784610788/
Hand held? Theyre pretty impressive and not that soft tbh, not as soft as the Sigma 70-300mm I have!
indeed i had to get out quick as i wasnt sure how long it would be about, so i was out with bare feet and no jumper/coat, no time to get the monopod out or anything. Luckily its an OS lens, without that i think they would have been really bad shots.
I have cropped them a little but nothing else, might have a play with the RAW files later.
Nice, really like the 3rd one, parts of the bread are slightly over exposed but that's easy'll forgiven given the circumstances, give it a little bit of playing about with in photoshop and that should look great. Not a bad lens if it can do that produce those sorts of shots without a tripod.