Tesni Ward Workshop - some thoughts (image heavy)

[sapper]

Cracking shots Paul. Inspiring. Been there a couple of times, must go back again.

[pdk42]

Originally Posted by sapper

Cracking shots Paul. Inspiring. Been there a couple of times, must go back again.

Thanks Dave!

[tomphotofx]

Thanks for posting these images Paul, I really enjoyed looking at them plus I hopped onto Flickr to see some more, good work indeed.

Regards

Tom

[Munro 113]

Hi Paul
Lovely set of images.there, looks like you had a super time at Bempton.
With regards to the Olympus 300mm vs LUMIX 100-400mm, whilst you say the Oly is slightly better of the two, would you say it is £1000 better? The Oly is approaching twice the price of the Lumix so one would expect it to be better, the same applies to the 100-400mm vs either 100-300mkii & Oly 75-100. I suppose price & quality is all relative in that if you have loads of cash you would buy both 40-150 & 300mm pros at a mind blowing price and probably get better image quality (?) than the Lumix but how much better. No doubt someone like Tesni would get better images with the 100-400 kit than me with the Oly duo.
Sorry for rambling on.
Thanks for your sharing your super images and a very interesting report on your day with Tesni
Regards
Bryan

[pdk42]

I don't think the image quality/sharpness warrants a £1000 difference - in fact, I think they are actually pretty close. The biggest difference is that you're getting about a stop or so more light with the Olympus. That can make a big difference taking shots of fast moving subjects in less than ideal light.

OTOH, for many other use cases for a long lens, I think the Panasonic wins - simply because it's a zoom. Taking shots of aircraft for instance almost demands a zoom since their relative size can vary enormously as they approach and recede.

I think for wildlife the Olympus probably has the edge, but the Panasonic is a very good and would probably satisfy most people.

[Ross the fiddler]

That was a great write up & of course the photos too. Thanks for this & details on settings etc too. I found this thread because of the last forum work Ian did which brought up all those unread posts again, & I'm glad it did.

[pdk42]

Originally Posted by Ross the fiddler

That was a great write up & of course the photos too. Thanks for this & details on settings etc too. I found this thread because of the last forum work Ian did which brought up all those unread posts again, & I'm glad it did.

It's a pleasure Ross. I did the same with your thread on PDAF calibration.