70-300mm round the garden today

[Guest]

Re: 70-300mm round the garden today

A bit like closing the gate after the cows have gone?

Yeah, or the stable door after the 'hoss' has bolted!

[Swordfish]

Re: 70-300mm round the garden today

Some nice shots - amazing what a bit of sun does for a change. Your garden is more advanced than mine i must say.

No.4 is not Scilla by the way (Scilla is blue); can't say what it is without seeing more if it.

Martin

[Imageryone]

Re: 70-300mm round the garden today

Some nice shots - amazing what a bit of sun does for a change. Your garden is more advanced than mine i must say.

No.4 is not Scilla by the way (Scilla is blue); can't say what it is without seeing more if it.

Martin

The Garden Guru tells me it is a Prunus, Martin, knew I should have asked first

[Ross the fiddler]

Re: 70-300mm round the garden today

Mine is the 4/3rds Mk1 version and is certainly more substantial than the later versions, Mark.

To clear up this question, are you compairing your ZD70-300 lens with the later M4/3's versions in the above comment or are you thinking of something else?

[tomphotofx]

Re: 70-300mm round the garden today

Nice images Imageryone, the 70-300mm is a great lens for the price and is very good at close up work as your images show.

Tom.

[Imageryone]

Re: 70-300mm round the garden today

To clear up this question, are you compairing your ZD70-300 lens with the later M4/3's versions in the above comment or are you thinking of something else?

A far as I am aware, but I am not always right by any means, Olympus altered the design a little and made the later models a little more plasticky. Mine is one of the early ones and feels very solid, I handled one about 2 years newer and it felt completely different to hand, but that might be just old age creeping on When I get back next weekend , I will weigh the beastie, that should help.

[Magus]

Re: 70-300mm round the garden today

My ZD 70-300 weighs 703g with the hood fitted (I wasn't taking the hood off after the warnings above!) and with the rear cap on. It is fairly recently purchased so would presumably be a MkII if there is such a thing.

[Falk]

Re: 70-300mm round the garden today

I was not aware of different versions of the ZD70-300
Just weighted mine and got 702g, with caps and hood on.
It says something like "pre-release" in the EXIF's when looked at lens details via "Photo-Me" software. Because of that I always thought it must be a very early copy.

Nice flower shots throughout. The dandelion is special. The tele-macro versatility of the 70-300 is a thing I really miss when I leave it at home.

[Tordan58]

Re: 70-300mm round the garden today

A fine set of photos, the Dandelion in particular with its smooth light, bokeh and DOF.

[Tordan58]

Re: 70-300mm round the garden today

These are some lovely images here.



It isn't robust in the focussing motor area with the external focussing lens & some care needs to be taken when handling it. For example, when taking the lens hood off, you should make sure the lens does not rotate at all (by pressing on the lens cap with one hand or zooming out & holding the barrel) otherwise the motor & gear can be strained & some people have had this happen to their lenses (including Mark, I think).

It has happened to me a few years ago, halfway into a roundtrip on Sri Lanka with no backup telephoto lens.