The second day I had my new Sigma "Bigma" 50-500mm OS super-zoom lens, I took a short stroll around town in the morning. The first thing I found were these pretty pink blossoms, and I thought to try multiple apertures to see the bokeh. I like it a lot.

I'm less sure how I like it in the next shot...

Stepping onto the sidewalk, the first thing I see -- way down the street -- were some monks (or whatever... I'm not sure the proper term, sorry), so I thought to reach out with The Bigma's long arm to greet [...]

This continues from Part I and Part II on my new lens. A friend came over and I used his camera either to take some pictures, or to model the lens.

I'm no good at product photography (I tried it once a few years ago, and failed miserably), but I've tried spicing these up a bit to keep them interesting....

The puppies on the hood and under the lens are tiny chopstick holders, seen in my "New Camera" post the other day, and I used the "Mostly Monochrome" Lightroom develop preset seen in my Stupid Tone-Curve Tricks post as the [...]

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.

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.

Missed the focus on the one above as well, by just a bit. Adding a smidgen of extra sharpening [...]

As I mentioned yesterday, I got a new camera. What I neglected to mention is that it also came with a big mass of industrial beauty called the "Sigma Bigma", the Sigma 50mm-500mm F4.5-6.3 OS HSM zoom lens. (The "OS" stands for optical stabilization, one of the new features Sigma added in this recent update to their original "Sigma Bigma" lens.)

Let me say up front that I had very low expectations for this lens, beyond the versatility and convenience of a 10× superzoom that goes to 500mm.

First of all, it's a 10× superzoom.

Its max zoom, 500mm, is [...]

It was my birthday yesterday, and knowing my taste for high-end photography equipment, Fumie got a new camera for me.

It's about the size of an egg, and delivers about the same in photographic quality. I love it.

It's a Leadworks "Mini Digital Camera", sporting a 0.3MP (640×480) sensor and an internal memory that can hold 20 shots before you have to download to its proprietary software (Windows only) using its proprietary drivers and proprietary USB cable. you can see more here, and even buy one yourself.

It has a counter on the back, and that's pretty much it. Anthony [...]