It's Friday March 4 now, or at least where I live ...
, so what about it, K-H ?
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Well Bart, the Olympus 300/4 PRO lens was delivered shortly after 5 PM on March 3 and before the promised 8 PM deadline. :thumbup:
I took a few shots when it was already getting darker.
The first example is a 100% crop of 2100x1181 pixels shot at f/4.
Distance to the mountains with the small fire look out station on top about 10 miles.
Turbulence in the air had already died down and the lens delivers quite a bit of detail.
Next is a shot of a telephone pole about 100 yards away. Distance to the mountains in the background again about 10 miles. Shot at f/4, no sharpening applied.
And finally a 100% crop.
I noticed two things when handling the lens.
• The hood mechanism is slightly different from the one of the 40-150/2.8 PRO lens. There I actually can easily remove the retracted hood. I have not found a way to do that for the 300/4 lens.
• The gap between the lens and the tripod foot isn't quite large enough so that I can stick my fingers in to hold the lens. However, the lens comes with an extra short ring segment so that one can swap out the tripod foot segment.
Other than that the lens handles pretty well on my E-M1 with PBH and a peakdesignltd.com clutch (camera hand strap).
Next I will add the Olympus MC-14 1.4x Teleconverter and EE-1 Dot Sight. :grin:
It seems the Spring Sandhill Crane migration is already mostly over so I have to find some other photographic subjects. :thumbup: