With this particular lens, how far can you blow up the photos and keep clear, clear photos ? 8x10 ? 2 foot posters ?
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Mostly depends on the type of camera you have. For the price this lens can't be beat, unless you make your living off of shooting photographs, this lens should be fine.
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Took some nice closeups of flowers. Enlarged to about 8 X 10, still quite clear. Took another shot of a world heritage church in the hills many miles away. Church became much more visible, although that one was a bit blurry. Doubt if it is professional standard, but more than good enough for me.
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Alison,My distance from lens to screen right now is 10.5 ft and I get around a 80' images measured diagonally . I am sure you could project less than 10.5 ft and just have a slightly smaller image. Hope that helps-Mark
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I've had one of these for a year, now, and am ordering another. Yes, it will focus clearly on an object at 6ft, and beyond! I have not tried it for portraiture, but have many times used it instead of my $20,000 Nikon equipment for micro-photography, and every picture has been good enough to enlarge to poster-size. I have been a pro photographer for decades.
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Li,What does a longer lens excel at shooting? I'm almost a complete neophyte, and can't google up the answer to this one.
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I think you'd be much better off using the fastest lens you can get and kicking up the ISO. The lens will probably pay for itself.
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Thanks, Tech. Funny that teleconverters are available for so many other size lenses but not this one. I could have lived with a 1.4x. Like you said, I'll have to live with what I've got... until I can pony up $1500+ for Canon's 100-400mm zoom.I guess I'd better plan on having a good number of 8mb and 16mb cards with me and shoot JPEG and RAW so I can seriously crop and/or enlarge the best shots (which will be many if the weather is good). I want some 20" x 30" or 24" x 36" posters from what I'm shooting. A telecoverter would have helped.
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I'll be honest and say I don't know. It's a beautiful lens but I would suggest that if you leave close to a large photo store go in and see if they will let you play around with one. Sorry that I can't be more helpful.
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I have gone up to 20x30 poster prints from this camera with images taken at the maximum resolution of the camera. They start to become a bit low in clarity at that size, and also color saturation suffers. Since you don't normally look at a photo that size from close up, they look OK on the wall, but BARELY. 11x14 looks pretty good. So, I would say this camera would NOT be suitable for 30x40 or larger.
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The zoom certainly helps. Makes your image appear to be eight times closer. However, say for example you are shooting a bird 100 ft. away. He still will be a long way off, for example he will not cover the whole screen. Most people shooting wildlife use lens with basically 200x. If you are shooting a deer for example at 100 feet with a 8x he will pretty well fill the screen. If you could get within say 20-30 feet your 8x would work fairly well.
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Yes, I can. I shoot f2.8 at 1:1 (the closest distance) most of the time (100% hand held).You might want to use a tripod first, see if you can have good image.
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The short answer is that this lens is no "powerhouse." I have used it quite effectively for artists' portraits at lawn concerts and for fairly-close nature images (no farther than 20 meters -- 60-65 feet) but beyond that it is of little practical value.Within that range, however, it produces an exceptional image.Hope that helped ...
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It's the lens, a 2.8mm will give you the widest possible view, 12 being the closest.
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This would be a good short term solution for increasing focal length I believe. No doubt you've checked out the longer focal length lenses and you can spend a whopping amount on them!
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I assume you mean macro photos... well... the macro lense is very good, and you can approach the subject up to 1 cm if necessary... I make a x2 zoom and still use the macro with a better and wider perspective. The only problem is when you use the macro with flash, in which case a horrible shadow will appear in the lower part of the picture. To avoid that I focus the subject on the superior 1/3 of the frame and then afterwards I crop the image. With a photograph of 20 mp even the crop one is still usable.
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I don't know about this lens specifically, but I would want a wider range lens. I got a 14mm - 200mm lens and find I use that most and a 14mm (pancake) lens that I use to keep the camera in a pocket. I think the lens you suggested has most of the size of the larger one without as much of the range, but I am not a professional photographer.
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I was in an art museum and took several pictures of framed paintings. I did have very significant distortion at that closer range. No experience as of yet with buildings but I would assume that with a 17mm there would be some distortion.