Some Terrestrial Shots with Baby Q

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Some Terrestrial Shots with Baby Q

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Bad weather. . . . .more bad weather, so instead of letting my scopes 'wasting' away in the dry cabinets, i took the Baby 'Q' on a few photo outings as a tele lens, just to see how does it stack up against typical dedicated camera telephoto lenses.
I have to say I am quite please its performance.......
Here are some photos:

Sunset from my window, the clouds parted at the right moment for this interesting composition. The foregroung building is the newly completed 'Fusionopolis'. Shot at prime focus, 1/1000s, ISO 250
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Ducks from Botanical Garden. Prime focus, 1/160s, ISO 640
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Shot this Golden Web spider on a palm tree across a pond. Prime focus, 1/200s, ISO 800
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Again taken at Botanical Garden, these common garden variety sparrows are quite comfortable at the presence of human. I can really get very close in shots. Prime focus, 1/80s, ISO 800.
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Migratory Sandpiper at Sungei Buloh ( I am no bird expert, id it from a bird reference book). This bird was at the far bank of the mangrove swamp, had to double the effective fl with 2xPowermate for a satisfactory image scale. 1/125s, ISO 800.
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Post by Tachyon »

Nice! I like the sunset pic!
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Wow. Nice. :)
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Post by Zephyrus »

Those are some kickass photos you've got there! I love the spider one, as well as the sparrow. The sunset one is pretty decent, but I still prefer wideview ones with grass or tons of building in the background, haha. The clouds were pretty nice though. (:
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Post by swat_pup6433 »

holy!! thats one wooping sharp and expensive telephoto lens! LOL cool... it actually provide a very nice background blur effect at its F ratio. haha love the shallow depth of field
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Post by wintertriangle22 »

beautiful , clarity of the pictures is incredible
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Post by wucheeyiun »

really nice photos...good as any dedicated tele lens...your focusing is excellent. :)
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drooling!!! i thought i could stop thinking about the Q but u've got me started again! argh.
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Post by Sam Lee »

SUPER SHARP !
How did you achieve that kind of focusing for the birds ??
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Post by Clifford60 »

Great Photos
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