I won an Ebay auction last weekend: A Sigma 600mm Mirror Lens for $76.09, including postage. These usually go for $200 to $300! This one has an Olympus OM mount on it, but I have an OM to Canon EOS adaptor. It came yesterday and spent the night on the front stupe. Leslee found it this morning when she got the newspaper!
It came with the case (case is about six inches long), a lenshood, front lens cap, the lens and four rear mount filters, mainly for black and white. It has an >>86mm!<< UV filter on the front! My next biggest is a 77mm on my ultra wide angle…
Well, I had to go try it out. This lens was around $300 when new, but it has not been made in several years. It has the reputation of being about the best of the lower cost mirror lenses. This is from near the Missouri River looking back at the Milwaukee Station Tower. It is a cropped shot, but full resolution. On the left is the untouched image; on the right I have played with it a bit. A little fuzzy, but I have only had it out to play with once…
(1/2000, f8, 600mm, ISO 800, shot from a tripod)
It is an old fashioned manual focus lens, with a fixed aperture of f8. Exposure is controlled by shutter speed and ISO number (higher is faster).
For these waterfowl shots I have played with the images, reducing them in sized to 60%, then cropping and sharpening. It seems to be working out pretty good for a $76.09 lens! Wallpaper sized…
(1/2000, f8, 600mm, ISO 800, tripod)
(1/2000, f8, 600mm, ISO 800, tripod)
(1/1000, f8, 600mm, ISO 400, tripod)
In addition, today started out overcast, and by the late morning when I shot these it was up to a high haze. Not the best photography weather, but better than it could have been.
~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>
