Yeah, I know, It's a Robin...

danza · 1 Apr 2007 at 16:49

Taken with my 50mm f/1.8!

He let me get rather close. So close infact that I couldn't focus on him at one point! Mad thing.

Joe T · 1 Apr 2007 at 16:58

Check out that DOF!

Razor sharp on the head though! Fab!

J1234 · 1 Apr 2007 at 17:07

Wow, you must have been close, were you using extension tubes?

Helium_Junkie · 1 Apr 2007 at 17:16

That's unbelievable :eek:

Fantastic!

danza · 1 Apr 2007 at 17:21

Cheers for the comments guys

Justin said:
Wow, you must have been close, were you using extension tubes?

Nah, but I managed to get ~1 foot away, hence not being able to focus!

J1234 · 1 Apr 2007 at 18:04

Blimey, that's one brave robin.

Schizophonic · 1 Apr 2007 at 18:15

When I right click on that picture and choose properties in Opera. I see that your using F number: 4.5 Is that what you actually took with the f-stop? When I use my 50mm F1.8 I ALWAYS use F1.8 to get the sharpest of pictures. But I suppose you were outside and it was pritty light so you were generous with the F-Stop.

Am i Right?

divine` · 1 Apr 2007 at 18:18

Sharpest pictures will very rarely come from the extreme limits of the lens so you wont be getting the sharpest at F1.8

What you may well be seeing is camera shake blur when you use higher due to a lack of light, but F5.6/F8 will be sharper than F1.8, like for like.

Sleepyd · 1 Apr 2007 at 18:25

Just shows you what a piece of luck can do - people pay £3000 on a lens to get that!

pixie_ladyxx · 1 Apr 2007 at 18:58

robins are usually quite friendly anyway i think , they can probably sense if we are nice!

it reminds me of when was little My sister once was digging a hole in the garden to fine worms to feed her pet gold fish 'Gandalf' (yes how lovely!) and she put them in a plastic container and the robin grabbed the whole container and flew off with it!! cheeky thing

edit: oh yeah and great photie

danza · 1 Apr 2007 at 19:07

pixie_ladyxx said:
robins are usually quite friendly anyway i think , they can probably sense if we are nice!

it reminds me of when was little My sister once was digging a hole in the garden to fine worms to feed her pet gold fish 'Gandalf' (yes how lovely!) and she put them in a plastic container and the robin grabbed the whole container and flew off with it!! cheeky thing

edit: oh yeah and great photie

Haha, they are such cool birds. Cheers for the comment

Just checked the time in my exif. So nearly l33t

Joe T · 1 Apr 2007 at 21:08

Schizophonic said:
When I right click on that picture and choose properties in Opera. I see that your using F number: 4.5 Is that what you actually took with the f-stop? When I use my 50mm F1.8 I ALWAYS use F1.8 to get the sharpest of pictures. But I suppose you were outside and it was pritty light so you were generous with the F-Stop.

Am i Right?

Not quite. F1.8 will give you the fastest shutter speed, but if there is good light then you can stop the lens down (i.e. use a smaller aperture). The actual performance of the lens improves down as far as f8 or so.