I guess the mouse was a goner.. so now the cat's playing with the corpse.. weeee!
This time better focus :-)
Looks like our cats can't stop hunting and playing.. Sadistic little bastards, playing with an "innocent" mouse... Funnily enough, with all that playing, the mouse got away.
See the photo with the cat "hands-up" .. the mouse is actually thrown over her, you can see the mouse behind her belly.. That was the last she saw of the mouse :D
Sorry for the out of focus shots.. I need to practice the tracking with the D700 (and the sigma 150mm isn't very fast either)
Well, testing the Sigma 150mm F2.8 AF IF EX DG APO MACRO HSM lens. Sigma marketing must have a poll on who can invent the longest acronym list!
Anyway, here are some samples. I already noticed a few things:
- Macro photography is HARD .. but since the lens will be used mainly for portrait stuff, I can get around that ;-)
- AF is, even though it is an HSM lens, quite slow. AF tracking is hit or miss, even if you use the focus limiter.
- The damn thing is heavy. My D700+MB10+8xAA is already pretty weighty.. adding the 150mm doesn't make it easier. The whole kit weighs 2.6kg ..
- Sharpness and field flatness is excellent.. I wonder if I could use this lens for piggyback astrophotography.
Any vignetting you see is added in post-processing :-)
Post processed with Bibble 5 PV2.1 available from Bibble Labs
Doing some AF tracking testing with the D700 and 24-120mm lens.
It's not bad, to be honest. D700 fitted with MB-D10 grip and 8 GP ReCyko cells, so that the "power" AF and FPS is available. The kids will have a soccer tournament in a few weeks, gonna try shooting some action shots.
Images post-processed using Bibble 5
Testing my Tamron 17-35mm F2.8-4 Di (Bought for a not to resist bargain price, I think it is EOL)
