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 [...]

Holy cow, six days without a blog post... I think that's the longest dry spell since 2005. I'm just too busy with LR3 preparations, sorry.

I'm still too busy to post properly, so going to my archives for some low-hanging fruit. This shot is from the last day of our short New Year's trip. In the thumbnail view above it's a picture of a bridge over a river, but view it full size and it becomes something much greater.

It joins a few other photos from the trip that got their own post, including "Theme For Our New Year's Trip", [...]

We have finally had some short-sleeve weather to go along with the cherry blossoms... no snow for a week, though it was cold enough to snow just three days ago. I had an errand near the Kiyamachi area of eastern Kyoto, an urban hip night-life concrete jungle where I shot much of "Impossible Photography: No Light, No Tripod, No Hope. D700 and a 50mm f/1.2" a year and a half ago. It has a small river lined by cherry blossoms, so I brought along the camera.

I've a great sequence of shots of the two girls launching small blizzards of [...]