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Bird Pictures from the Garden
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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:


   

   

   

   


Nikon D3100 with Tokina 28-70mm f3.5, (I like to use a Vivitar .43x aux on the 28-70mm Tokina), Nikkor 10.5 mm fisheye, Quanteray 70-300mm f4.5, ProOptic 500 mm f6.3 mirror lens. http://donschaefferphoto.blogspot.com/
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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.

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(Apr 5, 2012, 19:05)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.

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Nikon D3100 with Tokina 28-70mm f3.5, (I like to use a Vivitar .43x aux on the 28-70mm Tokina), Nikkor 10.5 mm fisheye, Quanteray 70-300mm f4.5, ProOptic 500 mm f6.3 mirror lens. http://donschaefferphoto.blogspot.com/
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#4

#1 looks quite sharp - the crow's eye is very clear.
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#5

Thanks Toad

Nikon D3100 with Tokina 28-70mm f3.5, (I like to use a Vivitar .43x aux on the 28-70mm Tokina), Nikkor 10.5 mm fisheye, Quanteray 70-300mm f4.5, ProOptic 500 mm f6.3 mirror lens. http://donschaefferphoto.blogspot.com/
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