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Maureen Souza
16th of July 2005 (Sat), 17:31
I have been struggling a bit with my 135mm lens....trying to get images as sharp as I'd like has been a bit of a battle. But this guy was willing to let me practice on him and I thought he had a pretty friendly face................... for a tiger.
Carzee
16th of July 2005 (Sat), 17:40
I' ve had mine just on 48 hrs and I'm going to this today as well, to get to know its dof and check focus point.

So Maureen, what is the exif here? Looks like the f2 end. Tripod/CR?
Maureen Souza
16th of July 2005 (Sat), 17:48
I' ve had mine just on 48 hrs and I'm going to this today as well, to get to know its dof and check focus point.

So Maureen, what is the exif here? Looks like the f2 end. Tripod/CR?

2.5 AV 250 TV 800 ISO

Hand held, medium amount of indoor light from nearby windows. That is why I cranked the ISO to 800.
LadyHawk
16th of July 2005 (Sat), 17:59
It looks pretty sharp to me, Maureen. Of course, I'm in Connecticut which is pretty far away... ;)

Good job!
SnowSpyder86
17th of July 2005 (Sun), 11:07
man, i thought it was gonna be a real tiger when i saw the title:(
schmoelzel
17th of July 2005 (Sun), 12:18
Maureen, you have to remember that sharpness only comes when a lot of other factors all come together (exposure, background, subject, WB, etc etc). One common mistake many of us make with a fast lens is that we fail to get focus bang on; at f2, it is a very narrow DoF so any hand movement with a low shutter-speed will translate into perceived softness. I know that when I first got the 135L, I had read that you had to make sure to get shutter speeds of 1/200 or more when using a 1.6 crop factor sensor. This seemed to work for me.......also, found that optimum sharpness was at f2.8..........

your tiger looks pretty sharp to me!!
Maureen Souza
17th of July 2005 (Sun), 14:20
Maureen, you have to remember that sharpness only comes when a lot of other factors all come together (exposure, background, subject, WB, etc etc). One common mistake many of us make with a fast lens is that we fail to get focus bang on; at f2, it is a very narrow DoF so any hand movement with a low shutter-speed will translate into perceived softness. I know that when I first got the 135L, I had read that you had to make sure to get shutter speeds of 1/200 or more when using a 1.6 crop factor sensor. This seemed to work for me.......also, found that optimum sharpness was at f2.8..........

your tiger looks pretty sharp to me!!

Thanks for the input. I have been shooting many different combinations of apertures, shutter speeds and ISO with mostly disappointing results. What do you think of this one?
boomer1959
17th of July 2005 (Sun), 17:34
I have been struggling a bit with my 135mm lens....trying to get images as sharp as I'd like has been a bit of a battle. But this guy was willing to let me practice on him and I thought he had a pretty friendly face................... for a tiger.

Is that Skip? I heard he was a tiger :lol: Just kidding :lol:
Looks pretty good.