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Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 95 mm — ¹/500 sec, f/5, ISO 320 — map & image data — nearby photos
Carpet of Cherry Blossoms
a common theme in Kyoto this time of year

This is a continuation of yesterday's post about Sigma's updated “Bigma” 50-500mm Super-tele Zoom, mostly to show more samples. Clicking through on the thumbnails brings up full-resolution versions.

Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 50 mm — ¹/500 sec, f/8, ISO 250 — map & image data — nearby photos
What Time Is It? @ 50mm

Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 500 mm — ¹/500 sec, f/8, ISO 560 — map & image data — nearby photos
What Time Is It? @ 500mm

Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 116 mm — ¹/640 sec, f/7.1, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Rickshaw
here's lookin' at you, kid

Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 380 mm — ¹/500 sec, f/7.1, ISO 220 — map & image data — nearby photos
Mr. Muramoto
I missed focus, but you can still read his name from all the way across the street

Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 210 mm — ¹/500 sec, f/7.1, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Iffy Bokeh
I'm not a fan of how the fading blossoms show up in this one, or the next

Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 500 mm — ¹/500 sec, f/10, ISO 800 — map & image data — nearby photos
“Yes, I'm Talking to You”
you get down here this instant

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Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 380 mm — ¹/500 sec, f/6.3, ISO 220 — map & image data — nearby photos
Mink Coat
a bicycle umbrella attachment, and an Asus computer bag

Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 500 mm — ¹/800 sec, f/6.3, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Crossing a Road

Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 500 mm — ¹/500 sec, f/6.3, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Crossing a Bridge

I horribly missed focus on this one, as I have on many of these. The depth of focus is pretty thin at 500mm, so I was sometimes trying “C” continuous) focus mode on moving subjects, something that I have little experience or confidence with, so I accept all blame for the missed-focus shots.

Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 240 mm — ¹/500 sec, f/6, ISO 250 — map & image data — nearby photos
“Shrine St.”
this one was rotated a bit to correct for a tilted photographer

Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 240 mm — ¹/500 sec, f/6, ISO 280 — map & image data — nearby photos
Coventry

Missed the focus on the one above as well, by just a bit. Adding a smidgen of extra sharpening in Lightroom does wonders to the mushiness you see at full resolution, but like all the photos on this post and most on the previous, I present it here with all the detail-related Lightroom develop settings are at their defaults.

The shots above rounded out those from yesterday. (I've got more already from today, but I'll save those for Part III.)

Once I got the shots loaded into Lightroom, I ran my Data-Plot focal-length-plot plugin on the results, and was not surprised to find that I took half the shots at the extreme long end of the zoom:

Focal-Length Data Plot
using my plugin in Adobe Lightroom

Actually, I was a bit surprised that it wasn't even more. Having that much reach was a new and novel experience, so of course I wanted to play with that aspect of it.

Continued here...