Bird Pictures from the Garden

[Don Schaeffer]

The Soligor 200mm f3.5 lens has been a bit of a disappointment because of the unsharpness, the soft focus on the margins of the frame and lots of color fringes. I had to resort to tinting to make the pictures acceptable to me. Examples:


   

   

   

   

[squirl033]

the Soligor lenses have never been high-quality glass, so i'm not too surprised you're seeing the chromatic aberrations and soft-focus issues. unfortunately, not much you can do about those problems short of investing in a better lens. the D40 is capable of very good image quality, but that lens is really limiting what you can get out of it. the noise seems mostly due to high ISO settings... try backing off on the ISO a bit, should clean up the noise substantially.

[Don Schaeffer]

(Apr 5, 2012 17:05)squirl033 Wrote:  the Soligor lenses have never been high-quality glass, so i'm not too surprised you're seeing the chromatic aberrations and soft-focus issues. unfortunately, not much you can do about those problems short of investing in a better lens. the D40 is capable of very good image quality, but that lens is really limiting what you can get out of it. the noise seems mostly due to high ISO settings... try backing off on the ISO a bit, should clean up the noise substantially.

Thanks again.

[Toad]

#1 looks quite sharp - the crow's eye is very clear.

[Don Schaeffer]

Thanks Toad