Tamron 500mm, the fun has started.

[Dave in Wales]

I'm over the moon with this little beauty

I thought I'd better put up a picture, to put my money where my mouth is, so to speak.

The shot is my first 'in-anger', it's a learning curve, I'm sure results will improve with some bright sunshine

Firstly the weather and lighting conditions were absolutely atrocious.

The shot was taken through a double-glazed door in hazy conditions....tripod mounted, essential is this light.

I don't think that hand holding will be possible, but I'll wait for better light.

Here shown with its new pretty TAM - M4/3 adaptor, much simpler and lighter that a TAM - OM and OM - M4/3 stacked together.

The chimney is at the top left.

Lens focusing distance was 100 ft/ 30M

IMG_3051-RS by Dave in Wales, on Flickr

1/1250 @ ISO1600
The PP treatment is the same as I always use from the RAW.

P3090523-RS by Dave in Wales, on Flickr

Just thought I'd pull it up a little more...unsharpened.

P3090523-RS-RS by Dave in Wales, on Flickr

[griffljg]

Dave, that is working nicely. You must be very pleased with it.

[Miketoll]

I must say they have come out really well.
I have only tried my Canon 500 f8 mirror lens hand held so must dig it out and try it on a tripod. Can't shoot through the window glass as it is very old glass and makes the bottom of a milk bottle look like optical glass.

[blackfox]

pretty good Dave

[blu-by-u]

Dave in Wales, YOU are poison.

[R99C99]

That’s great picture quality. I was inspired by your earlier post about this legacy lens and almost bought a sigma 600mm and adapter to play with. But all the reviews said it wasn’t worth it so steered clear.

But this 500mm could be fun if I could find one.

[wornish]

It's f/8 so I guess it needs reasonable light and still objects for manual focusing. Clarity is good though.

[Dave in Wales]

It's f/8 so I guess it needs reasonable light and still objects for manual focusing. Clarity is good though.

The lighting for the above shot was absolutely terrible, focus difficult, even with peaking.

I'm sure things will improve with some sunshine.

An added bonus with the OM-1 is the excellent IQ possible at extremely high ISO's.....and thus very high shutter speeds.

As mentioned....it's a learning curve.

Relative to expensive "vanilla" lenses, I've had more than my share of FUN out of it already....for just £132...all in.

The tripod on order, I think will probably be going back.

Preferring instead to wait for the better weather and using my sturdy Manfrotto monopod, so I miss a few shots, that's only to be expected

Tripods and me just don't get on.

[R99C99]

Ffordes have two........

Thanks. Have not used Ffordes before but useful to know. I decided not to go ahead for one only because I have a 50-200 SWD that I really want to use more often. I have the EC14 and hoping to find a fair price EC20 to get to 400mm.

This will be my ‘fun’ lens (but big and bulky) but legacy prices make legacy lenses a lot of fun.

[blackfox]

I have just bought two vivitar series1 lenses a 70-210 and a 28-90 the pair cost me £40 in total off of e.bay and there the best MF lenses I have owned .back in the day the series1 lenses were used by the press due to there sharpness

[R99C99]

Sounds good blackfox - I think there's something to be be said for high quality 'v' feature heavy. Although both would be nice (but expensive). I was using the 50-200 today and was using the manual focus ring quite happily. I think I should try shooting manual more often.

[biggles3]

Nice work with that lovely Tamron SP glass. Both your version and the earlier 55B are exemplary lenses; they have different optical formulae and your 55BB version has the slightly better all-around performance whereas its older sibling excels at distance shots. I've yet to come across a poor Tamron SP lens and now you've got the Tamron mirror bug, you might well be tempted by their tiny 350mm f5.6... It's a stunner and with the outstanding IBIS of many Olympus models; hand-holding is a breeze. I'm sure you're going to have a lot of fun with your 500mm - it is a great tele-macro lens too.

[Dave in Wales]

Nice work with that lovely Tamron SP glass. Both your version and the earlier 55B are exemplary lenses; they have different optical formulae and your 55BB version has the slightly better all-around performance whereas its older sibling excels at distance shots. I've yet to come across a poor Tamron SP lens and now you've got the Tamron mirror bug, you might well be tempted by their tiny 350mm f5.6... It's a stunner and with the outstanding IBIS of many Olympus models; hand-holding is a breeze. I'm sure you're going to have a lot of fun with your 500mm - it is a great tele-macro lens too.

Very informative, thank you.