Canon FD 400mm F4.5, Lens Turbo 2 and NEX-6 at the Aviary

nzmacro wrote:

shaolin95 wrote:

nzmacro wrote:

Very sharp results. Looked at them all at the larger views, you can't knock that lens. Heck you even turned it into a portrait lens Nice going in these and that's the light I like to shoot in as well. The fine feathering in the duck's to just note a couple are showing excellent details.

How was the CA or purple fringing, easy to fix ??. Someone mentioned it to me awhile ago, but I was never sure on that when I think who it came from.

All the best and that's a keeper that lens by the looks. Nice work.

Danny.

Thanks for taking the time to check the pictures! Coming from you it means a lot indeed. Sadly I did not get many options for flying birds there are most are injured animals etc but so nice to see them up close!
And yes about the Portrait! After that, I tried some more at home and was extremely surprised with how sharp it can be and the skin detail I was able to get on those other ones. My wife says, it blurs things so much that it does not matter where I take the picture when using that lens as Portrait lens.
As you mentioned about the feathers, that really surprised me that I could get that details from such lens. I have had others like the Rokkor 300mm before and never was able to achieve such detail. Also CA and Purple fringing is small and very easy to clean which again is surprising based on other long lenses I tried before like the Konika 200mm and Rokkor 300mm. I really love these FD lenses
I really got lucky for what I paid for it and the results I got so you bet, this is a keeper for sure!
Thanks again for the comment.

Ha, keep at the portraits with the 400mm

It does have a couple of decent elements in that lens and interesting about the CA. That's several people now that say its not really an issue, so that is very good to know. I do get slight CA in the Sigma 500 and the Canon 800, sounds about the same.

For BIF's, use that light you have in these shots and fast shutter speeds, it will work out just fine and 400mm is a darn good focal length on APS-C.

Hey, all the best up there, you must be getting close to that snow in a couple of months, starting to warm up here. See ya

Danny.

Yeah I will keep trying more Portraits with it

I can post some 100% crops on some images where it shows CA before corrections if you like to see but yes indeed I am super happy with it. And you bet...snow is soon to be here so getting ready for that indeed. 
Take care!