Timeline for What size lens is recommended for flying bird photography?
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| Jun 15, 2011 at 16:32 | comment | added | jrista | Owning the 100-400mm lens myself, I have NOT encountered this much of a difference in sharpness at 400mm. Perhaps in the corners, however when it comes to bird photography you are usually cropping to some degree, which eliminates the softer corners. Center sharpness is still pretty stellar. It does indeed look like it is slightly out of focus. I've never been able to auto-focus this lens perfectly at the extremes, and it usually takes a touch of manual tweaking to get it into full sharpness...I usually test against my computer screen, which makes it EASY to tell when its in focus. | |
| Jun 14, 2011 at 18:57 | history | edited | Imre | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 29, 2010 at 1:59 | comment | added | Shizam | This is focused right, focusing was done on a 1D series body with all AF points enabled and shots were taken only after most of the 45 points lit up. We took 5 photographs of each and picked the sharpest one. One expects a prime lens to always be sharper than a zoom wide open but this was considerably sharper. | |
| Oct 28, 2010 at 23:15 | comment | added | Jared Updike | Is this focussed right? It's hard to compare sharpness with incorrect focus. | |
| Oct 28, 2010 at 22:09 | history | answered | Shizam | CC BY-SA 2.5 |