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Examples: Landscape
A full test of the 800mm would take weeks and involve seeking out wildlife in various forms— very time intensive and not something I could afford to do. At least that’s the way I see many users utilizing this lens.
This pages shows a examples that I feel are instructive about the actual results I was able to obtain under a variety of shooting conditions— good and not so good.
Hits and misses
I had many failures with the 800/5.6L: it’s super easy to blur a shot by movement, or simply by having focus lock-on 6 inches rearward; there is very little depth of field even at f/5.6. I did not feel that the 5D Mark II was really up to the task; this is one lens that deserves the top Canon Pro body, which would also balance the lens better.
Landscape
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Diglloyd DAP is DSLR-oriented, but also contains workflow and other topics. Much of the focus is on Canon and Nikon but also Pentax and Pentax medium format.
Special emphasis is placed on lens evaluation, focusing on Canon and Nikon and Sigma lenses, but with a few others like Rokinon/Samyang.
- Make better images by learning how to get the best results right away.
- Save money by choosing the right lens for your needs the first time, particularly some of the new Sigma Art lenses vs Nikon and Canon.
- Workflow discusses image organization, raw conversion and post processing. Many examples show processing parameters for direct insight into how the image was converted.
- Jaw-dropping image quality found nowhere else utilizing Retina-grade images up to full camera resolution, plus large crops [past 2 years or so].
- Real world examples with insights found nowhere else. Make sharper images just by understanding lens behavior you won’t read about elsewhere.
- Aperture series from wide open through stopped down, showing the full range of lens performance and bokeh.
- Optical quality analysis of field curvature, focus shift, sharpness, flare, distortion, and performance in the field.
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